Sentences with phrase «jewish families»

In addition to our core clinical track, we have supported special programs in cross-cultural therapy, working with gay and lesbian families, with Orthodox Jewish Families and with families facing life - threatening illness.

More than half of the businesses were owned or operated by Jewish families.

An entrepreneurial businessman and hotelier from the Sassoon banking family, one of the most famous and prosperous of Jewish families in 1920s and 1930s Shanghai, Sir Victor transformed the city, establishing various commercial entities to support rapid development, particularly on the Bund.

There were just three families who stayed in the city and survived because of the courage and kindness of Greek citizens who risked their lives and hid these Jewish families in their homes.

In 1979 California Avenue, in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper - middle - class Jewish families from the mostly middle - class Jewish residents on the east of the divide.

Jewish families start the eight - day celebration of Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, beginning at sundown on a date in November or December.

«When Comedy Went to School» mines the rich history of borscht belt entertainment, revisiting those who honed their acts in that upstate New York vacation destination for Jewish families in the mid-20th century.

Down in a tunnel, Socha comes across several Jewish families, who have burrowed through the floor of a house — desperate people smart enough to know that if they stay aboveground they will never survive.

Synopsis: In Nazi - occupied Holland in World War II, shopkeeper Kraler hides two Jewish families in his attic.

Among the Jewish families, there's a middle - aged couple with little children; the rest are young men and women thrown together in the filth — a quarrelsome, exhausted, hungry, and lustful group.

Most Jewish families are very close knit and it is important for their family members to marry within the faith.

Jewish families are very close.

Jewish families are known for being tight - knit and strong.

It is not acceptable for many Jewish families to marry outside the religion.

Surveying the majority of cookbooks, it appears to be a little known fact that a beet «borscht» was originally made with fermented beets — a tradition kept alive by some Jewish families of Ukrainian origin as a dish called russel.

The researchers first thought to look at Ashkenazi Jews when they discovered the same mutation in 10 unrelated Jewish families.

A lot of Jewish families in the 1950s and 1960s had photos of Einstein hanging in the house.

In the early part of the 20th century, hundreds of recently arrived Eastern European Jewish families lived on farms in upstate New York.

Another top issue for Mr. Hikind is securing funding for drugs to boost fertility in women, a priority for Orthodox Jewish families.

The 1930's ushered in the migration of the German, English, Irish and Jewish families as Chicagoan's began to move to the north suburbs.

Berman ruled that the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, which represents the cemeteries, must assist Jewish families in any way possible with burials, including assigning qualified non-striking personnel to dig graves.

As another example, Jewish families have the common practice to name their babies after their deceased family loved ones, whose names are traditionally from the Bible.

Some Orthodox Jewish families choose to have their infant undergo a ritual called «metzitzah b» peh» - the circumcision practice in which a Jewish person trained in circumcision, called a mohel, sucks the blood from a freshly snipped foreskin.

Mintz's restaurants catered wedding receptions and bar and bat mitzvahs for local Jewish families and many people wanted ice cream as part of the selection.

Many Jewish families continue the tradition of gathering to share a meal on Friday nights and holidays, but a new generation is changing the approach to traditional food.

I am taking Challah to a class I am in for a presentation (on Jewish families) and I was so nervous that I would screw it up, I decided to do a trial run this past weekend.

In our home (and most Jewish families) brisket = braising with potatoes, onions and mushrooms.

Maybe in another 150 years, Jewish children will run away from the «P.C. police,» but today cultural memories of the danger to Jewish families once posed by the Catholic Church still run deep.

You can't figure it out... German's took art owned by Jewish families during WWII and sold it, or kept it for themselves.

how many mormons grew up in jewish families.

It is a time for Jewish families to spend time together.

Churches offer pastoral sympathy and support to the bereaved, but there seem now in the West to be no agreed rituals of mourning, as for example in most Orthodox Jewish families.

When some of them became Christians, whether from pagan families or from Jewish families assimilated to Hellenistic culture, they came to Christianity as persons who had already been schooled in this way.

They grew up in Jewish families.

I grew up surrounded by Jewish families and had a few friends in school that were Hindu.

Eighteen orthodox Jewish families have joined with about 25 nonorthodox Israelis to establish this community, which will soon move out of the fort into concrete block houses nearby.

Hitler was born with little money, and the majority of jewish families that lived near and around germany HAD been wealthy, and so one could argue that Hitler was just looking for funding and a back reason to make his sheep like followers do his deeds so he played on his peoples misunderstandings and cultural separations.

There were several apparently well - to - do Jewish families in the small town of Pembroke, involved in clothing and furniture businesses, but none of us really knew them.

This was the manner in which educated, Greek - speaking Christians from the very beginning had been schooled, whether they were from pagan families or from Jewish families that had become assimilated into Greek culture.

But you know, there are tons of Atheists that come from Jewish families, as well as all others.

During the Festival of Tents, Jewish families read the entire book aloud, a practice I would recommend to certain groups of happy - face Christians today.

Now that there was no one that the king needed to pay back, killing the Jewish family actually did ended up solving the problem.

Therefore I will not be surprised if those religious minorities would rally with him disguised as Atheists... It is obvious as well that him being of Jewish family that the Jewish organizations are behind the seen supporting / financing him..

Thank you, Mr. Polziec, for caring about the safety and wellbeing of one Jewish family, and at the risk of your own life.

I only said that I was born into a Jewish family and received a Jewish upbringing.

Jesus Christ was defenetly borned into a Jewish family.

OK folks: Jesus was born into a Jewish family... as a member of the Jewish race.

I'd post this question to you — let's say you're born into a mormon family, or a jewish family, or a muslim family, or any other of the hundreds of religions on this planet, and you believe what your parents are taught.

In the Jewish family of religions, this is understood as God.

And so you see, every year at Passover, in March, every Jewish family would set a place at their table for Elijah.