Sentences with phrase «jewish by birth»

For example, Einstien was Jewish by birth but did not believe in god in the traditional sense.

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«The cattle were lowing,» as the song goes, but it it's difficult to imagine a Jewish setting with high values on both cleanliness and hospitality that would permit a woman to give birth while having to worry about being stepped on by a donkey.

Each of these individuals embarked on an essentially Jewish quest brought about by the accident or providence of his birth.

Justin admitted that other gentile Christians did not show the same leniency.1 By the fourth century, the church had ruled that it was heretical even for believers of Jewish birth to observe the Law.

It is an odd fate for a seventeenth - century Dutch philosopher who adopted an impersonal more geometrico style in his writing, one determined by the accident of his Jewish birth and his exodus, as a young man, from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.

Just ask those called «U.S. citizens by birth» about «noncitizens» in their midst; ask the «legally naturalized immigrant» about the «illegal alien,» the Jewish Israeli «settler» about the gentile Palestinian «squatter» or the white - suburban commuter about the people who live around his downtown church.

These brave women who lived in slavery in Egypt and defied Pharaoh's edict for the Jewish midwives to kill Jewish male babies, by giving birth on their own, squatting in the fields.

From my understanding, even today, Jewish circumcisions are sometimes done in this way, by a specialized practitioner, at home, on the 8th day, and are in stark contrast from the circumcisions performed in hospitals on the first or second day after birth.

Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television The Jewish Museum May 1 — Sept. 15 This exhibit provides a look at the way avant - garde art shaped the look of television in the 1950s and»60s with works by Saul Bass, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and more, as well as memorabilia and clips from iconic films and television shows, including Batman, The Ed Sullivan Show and The Twilight Zone.

A retrospective exhibition on the 100th anniversary of her birth in 1999, organized by the Albers Foundation and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, traveled to the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; and The Jewish Museum, New York.