Word: faithfully
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...University in order to combat a prejudice that does not exist. A candidate's merit should be Harvard's only criterion for hiring. Once the University goes beyond merit in hiring professors, they do a disservice to every student who expects the highest caliber of education available. We have faith that there is an abundance of exceptional female academics who, based on this criteria alone, will have no trouble securing places at this institution...
...noted that Dershowitz's data is not necessarily incorrect despite the flaw in logic outlined above. If a sufficient percentage (namely 67 percent) of marriages involving American Jews are inter-marriages, then it would, in fact, be true that a majority of Jews are marrying outside the faith. --Jeremy L. Lizt...
...biracial woman who also happens to be Jewish. When my sisters and I were young, my mother, who is of Russian Jewish decent, and my father, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist from Jamaica, made the mutual decision to raise the three of us in the Jewish faith. I attended Hebrew school for years, and became a bat mitzvah at age 13. I continue to observe the Jewish holidays and consider Judaism to be a central aspect of my personal identity...
Perhaps my parents' mutual desire to raise me in the Jewish faith is an exception to the general trend of interfaith couples. I plan to raise my children with a strong sense of their Jewish heritage, for I know how meaningful religion has been in my life. At the same time, I hope they will develop a sense of their own unique cultural identity and will value each aspect of their diverse background. --Debra P. Hunter...
...Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night in Philadelphia during the Christmas season of 1786. Cherrycoke is given to utterances such as the following: "The Pilgrim, however long or crooked his Road, may keep ever before him the Holy Place he must by his faith seek, as the American Ranger, however indeterminate or unposted his Wilderness, may enjoy, ever at his Back, the Impulse of Duty he must, by his Honor, attend...