He was respected as a scholar and was the chief of the rigorously Orthodox rabbinical court in Jerusalem.

Rigorously Orthodox communities remain convinced that yeshiva students will never serve in the army.

Some suggest that the military is better off without 20,000 rigorously Orthodox soldiers severly limited in the jobs they are able or willing to perform.

Pinhas Menachem Alter, one of Israel's rigorously Orthodox rabbis, died today in Jerusalem.

He is being kept in office only by the calculated mercy of Shas, the rigorously Orthodox party.

The smallest of Israel's rigorously Orthodox religious parties announced tonight that it was breaking off coalition talks with the Likud party.

The 40 or so women infuriated the rigorously Orthodox men by trying to hold morning prayers while reading from a Torah and wearing prayer shawls.

Ramanujan's first Indian biographers describe him as rigorously orthodox.

For instance, Shas, the rigorously Orthodox party that represents working-class Sephardic Jews, is known to be reluctant.

Rigorously Orthodox rabbis in New York have issued rulings declaring the peace plan to be a crime.