ultra orthodox

REFINE YOUR RESULTS: All Results (177) | Articles (107) | Galleries (2) | Blogs (68)

ARTICLE

Ultra-Orthodox Urged to Vote for Sharon

Israel's ultra-religious Jews were urged by their newspapers and leaders to back challenger to Barak in Tuesday's election.

Related Topics: News, ultra orthodox, Sharon Israels, Religious Leadership, Ultra Orthodox Urged, religious parties, Prime Minister, Party, ultra Orthodox seminary students, religious leadership calling, ultra Orthodox parties

ARTICLE

Religious Jews Playing Pivotal Role in Israeli Election

Israel's Orthodox Jews are expected to overwhelmingly reject Prime Minister Barak, for reasons beyond just physical security.

Related Topics: News, Religious, religious nationalists, ultra Orthodox community, religious Israeli, barak, religious public, security forces, biblical style Israeli hero, Israeli security forces, Government

ARTICLE

Israel Takes on Holocaust Debate

Ultra-Orthodox official says secular Zionists were uninterested in saving religious Jews from the Nazis

Related Topics: Faiths, Judaism, Holocaust, ultra orthodox, prominent ultra Orthodox politician, Jews, Holocaust scholar, establishment conspiracy, Political, partys spiritual leader, fathers didnt, Israel Takes on Holocaust Debate Ultra Orthodox

ARTICLE

Israeli Court Hands Reform Jews Major Victory in 'Who Is a Jew' Dispute

Judges assert decision not about the validity of Reform and Conservative conversions, but for population registry purposes.

Related Topics: Faiths, Judaism, Conversion, decision, identity cards, population registry, Court, court decision, non Orthodox conversions, Jews, ultra Orthodox Israeli men, conversion issue

ARTICLE

Rahm Emanuel's Judaism Through His Rabbi's Eyes

Rabbi Asher Lopatin talks with Beliefnet about the religious observance of the White House chief of staff.

Related Topics: Judaism, Rahm Emanuel, President Obama, Barack Obama, Israel, Chief of Staff, Alana B. Elias Kornfeld

ARTICLE

What Conservative Protestants Believe

Central tenets of this faith, based on the questions in the Belief-O-Matic quiz.

Related Topics: Faiths, Protestant, Protestantism, Protestants, Christianity, Conservative Christian, God, Conservative Protestants Protestant, Suffering, Denomination, Protestants Protestant Section, Sin, Faith, Evangelical Christian Message, Section Evangelical Christian

GALLERY

Remembering the Faith Figures Who Died in 2007

The preachers, spiritual leaders, and artists we bid farewell to this year.

Related Topics: roan, Text, God, Leader, television ministry, Prime Minister, Faith, Israeli territorial concessions, Television, Pakistani prime minister

GALLERY

Who's Who: Fallen Religious Leaders

Beliefnet's gallery of fallen religious leaders including Father Alberto Cutié, the beloved Cuban-American leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, who shocked his followers when paparazzi photos showed him kissing and cuddling a woman on the beach and Ted Haggard, the evangelical leader of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, who admitted he was guilty of "sexual immorality" and had purchased methamphetamine from a gay prostitute.

Related Topics: Ted Haggard, Father Albert Cutié, Community, Money, Prison, offense, Abuse Scandal, extravagant lifestyle, Leader, boarding schools, donation money, yoga center