He was once at the forefront of a campaign to make Orthodox Christmas a public holiday in Russia.
All sides are now to negotiate over compromise ideas put forward by Alex Lubotzky, a member of the coalition who is both Orthodox and a noted professor of mathematics.
"Sunflowers" (1888 or 1889), from Philadelphia's own collection, is a virtuoso performance in color harmony, showing a ceramic vase of perky yellow blossoms against a swirling cerulean background, but it is entirely orthodox from a compositional standpoint, as the vase sits squarely in the middle distance at eye level.
The author William Dalrymple describes seeing Christians and Muslims praying together in a Greek Orthodox convent in Syria a few years ago.
Fair enough, but such is Mr MacCulloch's preference for the heretical over the orthodox that a reader who relied on him alone might struggle at times to work out what the mainstream Christian view was, despite learning lots about those who were against it.
It started a lot later than Western Lent, and the Orthodox Lent is a lot more austere than the Catholic Lent in that we give up all meat and all dairy for the full duration.
Mr Lapid called for a more equitable system of national service, ending exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox community - a state of affairs to which there is growing opposition in Israel.
Many Germans see the purchases as a dangerous deviation from orthodox monetary policy, and a step towards fiscal support.
The government is talking of reopening a Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki off Istanbul, a long-running demand of the European Union.
The orthodox innovator is a recurrent type that we see played out repeatedly in American political history.
The law is based on the Orthodox definition of a Jew as someone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism.
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"In Russia, there isn't a Serbian Orthodox Church, but the Russian Orthodox Church, in Bulgaria there is Bulgarian one, in Romania a Romanian one, " Metropolitan Mihailo told me.
The archbishop, known in the Orthodox faith as a Metropolitan, is a tall man, with a long flowing white beard and dressed in a robe of black silk.
Raising the age of consent to 18 has placed India among the more orthodox countries in a world where the norm and the global average is around 16 years.
The question is just one of the ten submitted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to a government commission set up two years ago, but whose work is only now coming into fruition.
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.
This state of affairs will not have reassured a delegation of leading American non-Orthodox rabbis who emerged from a meeting with Mr Netanyahu on that famous night with a commitment that the government will solve, by September, a hitherto insoluble conflict between the Judaism of Israel and the Judaism of much of diaspora Jewry.
Nachman Glauber, whose family founded a line of clothing for Orthodox Jews, was studying at a rabbinical college.
In a less orthodox stimulus measure, the government said over the weekend that effective Monday, it would expand a program to subsidize home applicance purchases by farmers to 10 more provinces, from an initial four.
He recounts a battle waged in the late 1990s by reform (liberal) Jews against plans by orthodox brethren to build a religious complex in their Cleveland suburb.
The new building's immediate neighbors are mansarded Second Empire survivals, a domed Ukrainian Orthodox church, and brash contemporary commercial interlopers a motley architectural crew.
The Turkish Cultural Association of Austria complained that the Lego set resembled Hagia Sophia, a 4th Century Orthodox Christian church in Istanbul that the Ottoman Turks converted into a mosque, and is now a museum.
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But the Yesh Atid party, a centrist movement devoted to helping the middle class and halting military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox civilians, came in a surprising second place with 19 seats, according to two exit polls, and 18, according to a third.
Instead, insights from brain studies may enable orthodox economists to develop a richer definition of rationality.
Creative Assembly, the creators of the Total War franchise, created a fairly orthodox, simple one-screen jump-and-shooter.
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At 43rd Street, an Orthodox couple approached with a stroller, but the baby burst into tears when I offered a hug.
He has spoken of reversing Argentina's free-market reforms, though in practice the government is trying to present a more orthodox face.
Mr. Saied, now an executive at a Florida environmental-testing firm, underwent a conversion to a less orthodox form of Islam in 1998.
The ultra-Orthodox Shas party, a pivotal part of the government's coalition, has given notice that it will walk out if there is any negotiation over Jerusalem.
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