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Orthodox Judaism, as it exists today, is considered by historians to have begun developing as a response to the Enlightenment in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Orthodox Jews view halakha (Jewish law) as a set of rules, and principles designed to create new rules, that were literally spoken to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.
Sephardic Orthodox Jews base their practices on the Shulkhan Arukh, the 16th century legal index written by Rabbi Joseph Karo; Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews base their practices on the Mappah, a commentary to the Shulkhan Arukh written by Rabbi Moses Isserles.
www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orthodox_judaism.html   (1848 words)

  
 Many Orthodox Jews like Lieberman, but stick to GOP
Orthodox Jews -- the most observant of Jewish denominations -- are barely a blip on the voting radar screen, making up 5 percent of the Jewish population, according to the latest data in the National Jewish Community Public Affairs Survey.
Orthodox Jews believe in adhering to all of the Old Testament commandments regarding Jewish life, such as dietary restrictions and rules on when to pray.
Modern Orthodox Jews, like Lieberman, share the same beliefs but are more lenient on some points, believing they can fully participate in secular society and abandoning the strict dress of fl coats and side curls.
www.freep.com /news/politics/njews20_20000920.htm   (1041 words)

  
 Neturei Karta - Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Orthodox Jews gathered on the steps of the City Hall in New York City to demonstrate their opposition to the statements and stance of Dov Hikind in reference to racial profiling.
A delegation of anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews gathered in New York City to counter protest both factions of the Settlers and Disengagement in the Holy Land.
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews protesting the desecration of graves by a highway construction project near Haifa were attacked and brutally beaten by private security guards hired by the Ministry of Transportation.
www.nkusa.org   (508 words)

  
 Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is not a unified movement with a single governing body, but many different movements adhering to common principles.
Orthodox Judaism views itself as the continuation of the beliefs and practices of normative Judaism, as accepted by the Jewish nation at Mt. Sinai and codified in successive generations in an ongoing process that continues to this day.
Orthodox Judaism believes that both the Written and Oral Torah are of divine origin, and represent the word of G­d.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/Orthodox.html   (410 words)

  
 Judaism
Orthodox Jews have a fundamentalist and rigid interpretation of their religion, and the Jews that are most negative towards the modern society are normally from this group.
Many Jews have felt in exile when living in especially European countries, and many have known that their future in one spot cannot always be taken for granted.
For many Jews, the synagogue in Jerba, Tunisia, is considered the oldest synagogue in Africa and hence sacred.
i-cias.com /e.o/judaism.htm   (2525 words)

  
 Will your Grandchildren be Jewish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Once a Jew intermarries, he or she as an individual remains Jewish, of course, but the likelihood of that person having any Jewish descendants is close to nil.
Since most Orthodox families now send their children to Orthodox day school (usually for at least 12 years), the graduates of today's Orthodox day schools will probably be the forebears of most of the Jews who will exist in this country in the future.
Orthodox parents and Orthodox day schools seem to give their children enough good reasons for staying Jewish that even when the children are grown and have the option to intermarry and disappear from Jewish life, virtually none of them do.
www.613.org /study.html   (2868 words)

  
 The Peace Encyclopedia: Jews, Jewish, The Jewish People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jew: this is a term derived from a geo-political designation; Jews are identified with the country of Judea and its nation; this indicates ethnic and national identity rather than just belief or practice.
A sample of Jews subdivided according to the birth-place of their parents or grand-parents have been examined for a large number of genetic markers in the course of a long-term project on the genetics of Jews.
The Jew saw them all beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.
www.yahoodi.com /peace/jews.html   (4418 words)

  
 Executive Summary: 1999-2003
It was sent to American Jews, to a group of non-Jews similar to Jews in terms of their education and region, and to a sample of Jewish leaders who participated in the Annual Plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA).
Jews are far more disturbed than non-Jews by the high profile of religion in the presidential campaign, both globally and with respect to the four American candidates.
While the percent of Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist Jews is very similar to the results of the NJPS study, the percentage of individuals identifying themselves as Reform (27%) is significantly less than the 41% identified nationally.
www.cjcs.net /execsum.htm   (10113 words)

  
 CNN - Unorthodox prayers draw Orthodox anger at Wailing Wall - February 1, 1999
For their service, the Reform Jews were placed in a special lot surrounded by metal barriers and Israeli police some distance from the shrine.
Orthodox hecklers waved their arms and jeered the Reform rabbis from behind police cordons.
The Reform rabbis were primarily from the U.S. Israel's Orthodox establishment refuses to recognize the rabbis of the Reform and Conservative movements, even though 90 percent of affiliated Jews in the United States -- home to the world's largest Jewish community -- belong to the two movements.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9902/01/israel.divided   (627 words)

  
 Moment Magazine - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At one Kotel confrontation, it was alleged, Orthodox youths hurled feces at the nontra- ditional worshippers.
The Orthodox consider all born Jews and anyone halachically converted to be every bit as much a part of the Jewish people as the most observant rabbi.
Orthodox men involved in messy divorces were marrying off their young daughters—but withholding the names of the new husbands as a means of protecting themselves, the story went.
www.momentmag.com /archive/feb00/feat1.html   (3284 words)

  
 Will Your Grandchildren be Jewish? Intermarriage Rates & Statistics for Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, Conservative, ...
Almost all Orthodox families today give their children the greatest number of years of Jewish education; this seems to be crucial to their exceptionally low intermarriage rate.
As stated earlier, long-term Jewish survival depends on four choices that each individual Jew makes: the level of personal observance; the choice to marry another Jew; the desire to have two or more children if possible; and the absolute priority of providing maximal Jewish education for oneself and one's children.
The data does not comment on whether Orthodox Jews are better as people, or as Jews, than anyone else.
www.simpletoremember.com /vitals/WillYourGrandchildrenBeJews.htm   (2850 words)

  
 National Review: The kosher majority - Orthodox Jews as political conservatives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Orthodox Jews often have large families, and their yeshiva-educated progeny stay faithful to tradition.
Said Benjamin Disraeli, "[The Jews] are the trustees of tradition, and conservators of the religious element.' Russell Kirk observes in The Conservative Mind that "the Jewish radical is an anomaly: The traditions of race and religion, the Jewish devotion to family, old usage, and spiritual continuity, all incline the Jew toward conservatism.'
The objective is to make the Jew cognizant of his dependence on the Creator and to cultivate a sense of gratitude for divine beneficence.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v39/ai_4781395   (1228 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Zionists
Orthodox Judaism holds to a Zionism pure and simple, the return of the Jews to Palestine, the coming of the Messias, the overthrow of hostile powers by Him, the restoration of the Temple and its worship, the Messianic reign.
The practical carrying out of Zionism by orthodox Jews has until recently been attempted only fitfully and very ineffectually, and often with no return to Zion as an objective.
Jewish settlements were established in the upper Mississippi region by W.D. Robinson, 1819; near Jerusalem, by the American Consul Warder Cresson, a convert to Judaism, 1850; in Prague, by Steinschneider, 1835; and elsewhere.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15760c.htm   (514 words)

  
 Orthodox Jews (Roth)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Deborah Roth's letter (Nov. 5), stating that the Orthodox interpretation of Jewish law is definitive of who is a Jew and denying the political implications of the Orthodox position, illustrates two of the problems behind the tensions in the community.
That the Orthodox have relevant interpretations of Jewish law is not in question, but that they have exclusive authenticity is. The law is not necessarily what the Orthodox establishment interprets it to be.
It is important that the Orthodox and the liberal both survive and thrive – along with a continuing secular tradition.
www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~sander/personal/jews3.html   (247 words)

  
 Moment Magazine - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
That is why he is not openly gay in his Orthodox community (and why he, and several other gay men interviewed for this article, asked that their real names not be used).
For gay Orthodox Jews, the rise in support groups is a promising development—even though these groups are not officially sanctioned.
But few Orthodox rabbis have ever stood up and publicly addressed the issue or provided any halachic (Jewish legal) parameters beyond the standard "It is an abomination." No rabbi wants to be seen as possibly condoning an act that has been outlawed by God in the Torah.
www.momentmag.com /archive/apr01/feat1.html   (4135 words)

  
 Christian Century: Jockeying to exclude non-Orthodox Israelis - ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel attack American Reform ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews have repeatedly clashed at the Western Wall.
The fight over council membership is part of a broader battle between some Orthodox Jews and their non-Orthodox co-religionists, who are trying to break the de facto Orthodox hegemony over Jewish religious life in Israel.
The Orthodox contend that the battle is to maintain traditional Judaism.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_6_116/ai_54062894   (584 words)

  
 Orthodox Jews To Demonstrate Against 'State' Of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Upon the meeting of President George W. Bush and "Israeli" Prime Minister Sharon on April 14, at the White House, Washington DC, Orthodox Jews will be demonstrating in front of the White House, to proclaim and clearly state that: Sharon and the State of "Israel" are illegitimate and they do not represent the Jewish people.
Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
In 1948, the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews.
www.rense.com /general51/agz.htm   (1015 words)

  
 What Do Orthodox Jews Think About Abortion and Why? Judith Shulevitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lieberman is right to say that Orthodox Jews have differing opinions on abortion, but wrong to create the impression that the liberal notion of abortion on demand is among them.
Lieberman could also argue that while Jewish law doesn't leave it up to a woman to decide whether to abort her pregnancy, that decision is left to her rabbi, so a national policy of abortion on demand actually grants rabbis the greatest possible scope for the exercise of their authority.
In a post-Holocaust world, however, some Orthodox Jews have considered it an implicit imperative to repopulate their ranks and have begun to have extremely large families.
slate.msn.com /id/1005956   (1891 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: And I will dwell in their midst: Orthodox Jews in suburbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Orthodox Jews first moved to the suburbs, they introduced some fashionable practices into their new synagogues, like doing away with the women's balcony and allowing women to sit, still sex-segregated, on the same level as men.
In the 1980s, as they were more comfortably entrenched in their surroundings, Orthodox Jews eschewed these innovations in favor of more traditional worship services.
Although rarely associated with postwar suburbia, Orthodox Jews in metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada have successfully combined suburban lifestyles and the culture of...
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/080782576X   (614 words)

  
 Ultra-Orthodox Jews 'Must Stop Religious Abuse'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 3,000-strong community live in the Armenian quarter and many Jews walk through it on their way from west Jerusalem to the Wailing Wall or Western Wall.
'Every day the fanatical Jews turn their face to the wall or spit on the ground or at us when they see the crucifix,' he said.
Even the old Christian churches - the Armenian, Orthodox, Coptic, Syrian, Ethiopian and Catholic - are known for their disputes, which regularly result in brawls.
www.rense.com /general58/ultraorthodoxjewsmust.htm   (472 words)

  
 CNN - Ultra-orthodox Jews push for all to keep Sabbath holy - Dec. 5, 1996
But for many non-orthodox Jews, the ultra-religious are viewed as a threat to democracy and a way of life.
Ultra-religious Jews remain a minority, but less religious Jews fear that if they became a majority, violence could erupt.
Moreover, time and population trends are on the side of religious Jews, since they take to heart the Biblical command "Be ye fruitful and multiply." There may be as many as 10 to 11 children per family.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9612/05/israel.sabbath.holy   (452 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Far from simply vanishing in the face of modernity, Orthodox Jews in the United States today are surviving and flourishing.
Both parochial and cosmopolitan, orthodox and liberal, these Jews are characterized by their dualism, by their successful involvement in both the modern Western world and in traditional Jewish culture.
Most of the discussion focuses on a middle group of Modern Orthodox Jews, which Heilman confusingly terms the "centrists," despite the fact that he uses the very same term in other places to refer to the Modern Orthodox population as a whole.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226324958   (1092 words)

  
 Judaism 101
The information in this site is written predominantly from the Orthodox viewpoint, because I believe that is the starting point for any inquiry into Judaism.
Be aware, however, that many Jews do not follow all of the traditions described here, or in the precise form described here.
I do not claim to be a rabbi or an expert on Judaism; I'm just a traditional, observant Jew who has put in a lot of research.
www.jewfaq.org   (484 words)

  
 Print Version - Orthodox Jews in Fiction
Unfortunately, the media (and many readers) seem to feel that these writers are representing the traditional Jewish community -- one "grants us the illicit pleasure of eavesdropping on a closed world," and another describes wacky newly religious types with "devastating accuracy" -- when by their own admission the authors do not identify with these worlds.
The traditional Orthodox characters in their novels tend to be hypocrites.
Rather, it is rooted in their ability to navigate the misrepresented Orthodox world as insiders - i.e., those who do not carry "discomfort with religiosity" -- while bringing an 'outside' literary sensibility.
www.aish.com /SSI/articleToPrint.asp?PageURL=/societyWork/arts/Orthodox_Jews_in_Fiction.xml&torahportion=   (1558 words)

  
 APP.COM - Vaad endorses Orthodox Jews in Lakewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LAKEWOOD -- A well-known council of leaders in the Jewish community has endorsed two Orthodox Jews in next week's Township Committee election, but said the choice had nothing to do with religion.
There are no Orthodox Jews on the current committee, although the recommendations of the Vaad are considered important because the Orthodox community tends to vote according to who the Vaad supports.
Lichtenstein said twice this week -- during debates at two senior citizen communities -- that he is aware of the division in Lakewood between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox communities.
www.injersey.com /campaign/story/0,2495,845386,00.html   (226 words)

  
 The importance for Orthodox Jews to observe the kosher food laws.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Below is a short sample of the essay "The importance for Orthodox Jews to observe the kosher food laws.".
This means that Jews eat more together and feel more of a community as they all have something in common.
All Jews are constantly aware when eating and preparing food that God is around them and they must respect his wishes and the food laws are there for all Jews to observe.
www.coursework.info /i/57269.html   (335 words)

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