Sentences with phrase «religiously observant»

Frum is a Yiddish word which means religiously observant.

As a religiously observant Jew, I find this a welcome, and compelling argument that other Jewish believers, of all denominations, should be able to support and applaud.

The organized Jewish community was for many years not sufficiently interested in the problems of the religiously observant.

Religious traditions tied most closely to the Republican Party were less swayed by economic considerations than were their Democratic counterparts, and the least religiously observant voters in both traditions were the ones most influenced by economic woes.

Again, as with the Protestants, Catholic Perot voters were drawn from the least religiously observant.

The result was increased Catholic defection to the GOP, but by two very different groups: traditionalists motivated by social and foreign policy issues, and the less religiously observant enticed by Reagan's promises of prosperity.

Through the great work being done by my friend Jennifer Bryson — who is a devout Christian and a great American patriot who spent two years as an interrogator at Guantanamo — I have met hundreds of religiously observant Muslims over the past several years and many are now my close friends.

The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that new faculty — though very smart and well read (and probably better educated than most of their senior colleagues), though religiously observant and already experienced in teaching, though flexible, open and good - humored — have not found a vocation, do not know what purpose they want to serve.

There are also four Jews, none of them religiously observant.

It's unclear how religiously observant Hoffman was later in life; certainly, some of the details of his private life — and tragic death — are the kind of thing you'd read in the tabloids, not your parish bulletin.

It has failed to create a religiously observant laity, while losing members to rival movements or to religious indifference and assimilation.

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But that's not a reason for excluding from protections secular groups and individuals who are not religiously affiliated or observant but who dissent from the redefinition of marriage.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).