All 11 Uses of
orthodox
in
The Color of Water
- It took me fourteen years to unearth her remarkable story-the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, she married a black man in 1942-and she revealed it more as a favor to me than out of any desire to revisit her past.†
Chpt Intr.
- I was born an Orthodox Jew
Chpt 1 *orthodox = conforming to traditional religious practices
- That's how Orthodox Jews mourn their dead.†
Chpt 1
- My father's name was Fishel Shilsky and he was an Orthodox rabbi.†
Chpt 1
- They were strictly Orthodox and ate kosher every day.†
Chpt 3
- On her end, Mommy had no model for raising us other than the experience of her own Orthodox Jewish family, which despite the seeming flaws-an unbending nature, a stridency, a focus on money, a deep distrust of all outsiders, not to mention her father's tyranny-represented the best and worst of the immigrant mentality: hard work, no nonsense, quest for excellence, distrust of authority figures, and a deep belief in God and education.†
Chpt 4
- In those days any Orthodox Jew who said he was a rabbi could preach and go around singing like a cantor and such.†
Chpt 5
- See, Orthodox Jews work with contracts.†
Chpt 5
- It also harked back to her own traditional Orthodox upbringing where the home was run by one dominating figure with strict rules and regulations.†
Chpt 10
- The young Jewish girl who at one time could not allow herself to walk into a gentile church now couldn't do without it; her Orthodox Jewish ways had long since translated themselves into full-blown Christianity.†
Chpt 16
- Only when I revealed to him that my mother was the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi did his Jewish background emerge, because he understood the true depth of Mommy's experience immediately.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(orthodox) normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)