It is also about the power of the orthodox rabbinate to dictate certain decisions to this overwhelmingly secular society.

They are presumed to be in a weaker than normal position in this election because of the large numbers of overwhelmingly secular Jews from former Soviet territory.

An "accommodation" was reached between the provincial government and the Roman Catholic Church on the disposal of underused churches in an overwhelmingly secular province.

Zionism was an overwhelmingly secular revolution that insisted on a secular transformation of Jewish history.

The presentation is overwhelmingly secular; not until the filmmakers reach the northern town of Tiberius do they show a traditional yeshiva.

All religions in the West have become minorities in an overwhelmingly secular world.

If the work is recognizably Jewish in style, it is overwhelmingly secular in content, Mr. Kozloff believes.

They slipped from 18 seats to a projected 17, in good part because their strength was diluted by the overwhelmingly secular Jews from Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Although nearly all of Uzbekistan's 24 million people are Muslims, the population is overwhelmingly secular and has little interest in life under enforced fundamentalism.

As they are overwhelmingly secular, alcohol is frequently consumed within the community and most Turkish Cypriot women do not cover their heads.