Word: ultraorthodox
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Peres is also pursuing alliances with several tiny religious parties in the hope of achieving a Knesset majority without Likud's help. Peres is especially lobbying the ultraorthodox Agudat Yisrael (two seats) and the National Religious Party (four seats), a mainstream Orthodox group that is holding out for the Ministries of Religious Affairs, Education and Interior. Yet the National Religious Party complicated Peres' task last week by announcing that it would join only a wider coalition that included Likud...
...deal with the growing friction between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews. Tensions have arisen over issues ranging from burial practices to bus service on the Sabbath. In Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, a dispute has broken out over whether restaurants and cinemas could be opened on the Sabbath. The "ultraOrthodox" Jews, as they are known in Israel, have repeatedly battled police in their protests against archaeological digs outside Jerusalem's Old City. When a university professor inadvertently drove through one of their neighborhoods in Jerusalem on a Friday night, thus violating the Sabbath, his windshields were smashed and he suffered...
Repeated denials by archaeologists and other scholars that any graves exist on the controversial site met with incredulity among the ultraOrthodox. Israel's Chief Rabbi, Shlomo Goren, who had earlier issued a ruling forbidding the dig, made a dramatic appearance on national television, displaying a few teeth and photos of human bones, which he said he had gathered while secretly scouting the area. Said Goren: "I found the bones with my own hands. I dirtied two suits. I have a whole sack of bones I could have brought with me." The mounting opposition to the excavations caused Begin...
...past rector of the Islamic Center in Copenhagen who has also taught in Saudi Arabia and Libya, is regarded by his followers asapir (saint), and he claims that his family lineage traces directly to Muhammad. He could become a focus for Western support, although his urbanity offends some ultraorthodox Muslims. Too many of his nephews and cousins-like relatives of Iran's Shah-appear to be dressed by Gucci...
...Orthodoxy comprises a host of sometimes bitterly contending factions. There are arguments, for instance, about the fine points of kosher-food preparation, with the result that there are two categories of kosher food ? regular kosher, acceptable to most Orthodox, and glatt (smooth) kosher* preferred by the more rigorous ultraOrthodox. More serious disagreements revolve around whether a Gentile who is converted through non-Orthodox procedures is in fact a Jew, or even whether Orthodox rabbis can engage in interdenominational conversations with less observant rabbis. Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a leading theologian of the Orthodox left, has joined Reform and Conservative leaders...