Sentences with phrase «orthodox synagogue»
As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.
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The synagogue - going Jews are divided into orthodox, conservative, liberal or reform, and reconstructionist.
He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»
They can mention whether they cover their head, visit the synagogue and offer daily prayers, kosher, whether they are conservative, traditional or modern orthodox, which can easily help members to filter profiles according to their needs.