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Haredi
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Noun1.Haredi - any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel
Jewish Orthodoxy, Orthodox Judaism - Jews who strictly observe the Mosaic law as interpreted in the Talmud
religious order, religious sect, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group


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On the other, it is the rarely voiced haredim we-told-you-so: European Jewry did not die because they were Jews, but rather because they had forgotten they were Jews.
Revising night: Elie Wiesel and the hazards of Holocaust theology by Manseau, Peter / Cross Currents
Most troublingly it includes the belief--shared by current House Majority Leader Tom Delay (Republican, Texas)--that human activity can influence the timing and outcome of the apocalypse: a notion that intersects menacingly with the beliefs of ultra-orthodox Jewish elements (Gush Emunim, the Haredim, and the National Religious Party) in Israel.
The gift of the West by Mates, Thomas / The Humanist
The welfare rolls are reinforced by the growing numbers of haredim who are exempt from work and are supported by the state, along with their growing broods, as long as they perpetuate their theological studies.
Israel's fruits of war now seen spoiling on the vine. (Special Report) by Stauffer, Thomas R. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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