Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
quote by Lord Melbourne
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But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
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We're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
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I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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From The Balcony
From the balcony where women sit
they need a pole to slide and join the men,
but if you lower the mehitsah just a bit,
will they still iterate “amen, amen, ”
which Numbers in five twenty-two explains
a woman has to say if she ignores
the warning to be separate, and remains
suspiciously sequestered with señors.
Oh bitter are the waters she must drink
in case she swells with pride because she knocks
her man on floors of sanctuaries to sink
with sanctimony that is Orthodox.
Inspired by an article Anthony Weiss in The Forward, “An Orthodox woman rabbi by any other name” copied in Haaretz on May 25,2009:
Plans for a new school to train Orthodox women as clergy are pushing the issue of the role of women in Orthodox Judaism to a new and untested frontier. Avi Weiss, a leading advocate for a more liberal Orthodoxy, and Sara Hurwitz, a protege of Weiss, are now taking inquiries and applications for Yeshivat Maharat, a four-year program set to open this fall to train women as 'full members of the Rabbinic Clergy, ' according to an e-mail announcement. But they will not, as of yet, be called rabbis. 'We're training women to be rabbis, ' Hurwitz told the Forward. 'What they will be called is something we’re working out.” The move appears to place Weiss and Hurwitz at the precipice of what is possible under traditional Orthodox law without actually jumping off. In striking that balance, they are risking the possibility of alienating those to the left who want an equal rabbinical role for women and those to the right who argue that spiritual leadership is incompatible with the place of women in Orthodox society. 'My best guess is that we are seeing further evidence of a coming division in Orthodoxy between left and right, ' said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. But, he noted, 'Rabbi Weiss has not only been able to push the envelope, but to do so successfully.'…
Indeed, the new program has already spurred criticism that it will make women’s roles in Judaism a more charged issue. 'I don't see how this promotes the growth of women's learning, ' said Rabbi Yosef Blau, spiritual advisor of Yeshiva University's rabbinical seminary. 'It makes it more controversial and more difficult for women who are ready and who are committed to learning.'
He added: 'There are already programs of advanced study for women. If any women showed interest, or if shuls showed interest, in something like this, they would be doing it.' But Weiss has experience in successfully pushing the boundaries of Orthodox liberalism while still remaining a respected, if controversial, member of the Orthodox world. His recently established Yeshivat Chovevei Torah has become an important training ground for progressive and social activist Orthodox rabbis who, despite resistance from a number of prominent leaders, have found jobs and roles in mainstream Orthodox institutions.
5/26/09
poem by Gershon Hepner
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Red-light District
Don't be upset if you jumped here by accidentally.
You won't see the amber or green lights to move ahead.
Put a Reef-knot to the morality,
They too some kind of species of the struggling process
And listen to their songs and stories carefully.
If you get a chance please send flashes of light
By your fair Morse Code to the Puritanical World of Saints.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.
quote by Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.
quote by Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.
quote by John Fiske
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
The thing is I don't separate a character's sexuality from what she eats for breakfast. I'm not interested in living that cliché and living in that puritanical nature of things. I don't think that sexuality is something separate. It is like it has become a shadow part of ourselves, which I think is very unfortunate - I myself try to get that shadow out into the light.
quote by Maria Bello
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The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.
quote by Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
quote by Robert Shea
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
quote by William Howard Taft
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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
quote by Peter L. Berger
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
quote by Abraham Cahan
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Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
quote by Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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