Much as he wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.
Ethiopia's Orthodox Church used to be part of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church, but got its own patriarch in 1959.
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But you can expect a higher profile for the vexed issue of whether Israel's ultra-Orthodox community ought to be required to perform its share of national service (it's currently exempt).
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The Greek Orthodox church may also be told to stump up half of the wage costs for priests, despite earlier reassurances that the state would continue to foot the entire bill.
Just as poor, uneducated single mothers in Lod can be depended on to blame their troubles on an insensitive government, so groups of ultra-Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh, whose own communities decry them, can be trusted to treat nonreligious women poorly.
How a public school district that's 57 percent black, including Haitian, and 29 percent Hispanic, came to be governed by ultra-Orthodox Jews is a case study in changing demographics and the power of democracy.
Mr Sharansky's position is particularly exposed because he is the minister of the interior, and thus the man who must defend in court the entrenched Orthodox monopoly on determining who is to be registered as Jewish under the law.
But Albania's religious balance, as well as its political equilibrium, could be upset by the influx of Kosovars who are overwhelmingly (though not very zealously) Muslim and now have bitter experience of people who claim to be acting in the name of Orthodox Christianity.
But just as the majority of single mothers, who are not impoverished, don't deserve to be placed in the victim column, so, too, the majority of ultra-Orthodox Israelis do not deserve to have their reputation besmirched because of the bad behavior of a small, vocal and easily provoked minority.
Orthodox priests and specially trained counsellors will be on hand to try to comfort the families as they attempt to identify the dead.
Some in the Orthodox world believe there is a reluctance to be seen embracing bikes against the wishes of well-connected religious leaders.
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Kaspar is a likeable moderate who gets on well with his Protestant and Orthodox colleagues and will now either have to be given the top job in his department or shunted into another important Vatican post.
For some time, it must be said, orthodox economists have found Mr Mundell's arguments hard to follow.
Not everyone is happy with this proposal: the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, is reported to be against the idea of using music he believes many people still associate with repression and state-imposed atheism.
Even in the height of the hot Jericho summer, Christian pilgrims can be seen clambering up the Mount of Temptation to pray at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Temptation, built into the side of the mountain.
Orthodox taxation principles would suggest that the rate be cut and the base broadened to raise legitimacy and compliance.
But it has run into furious opposition from the large non-Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States, which want their rabbis, too, to be able to do conversions under Israeli law.
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