Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is literally a war going on between Jews and missionary groups [July 4]. Although it has only recently hit the headlines, this phenomenon is nothing new; the Jewish people have been the focus of persistent attempts at conversion ever since the advent of Christianity...
...Jewish answer is to bring every Jew back home to his people...
...born into a Jewish home and accepted Jesus as my Messiah at the age of 22. Despite what other Jews might say, I am still a Jew. Becoming a Christian does not destroy your Jewish identity, it only fulfills...
...stands.) The Panamanian was swept into Marilynn's family-her mother has lived with them for four years. Marriage and children-Charryse, 3½, and Stephanie, 2-have stabilized Carew's life. Although he remains an Episcopalian, he studies his wife's religion and observes Jewish traditions and holidays. His only jewelry, besides his wedding band and an ID bracelet, is a gold chain and chai, the Hebrew symbol for health. It was given to him in 1975 by his father-in-law shortly before his death...
...Nabokov married Vera Slonim, daughter of a Jewish industrialist from St. Petersburg who had also fled the revolution. A son, Dmitri, now an opera singer in Europe, was born in 1934. Five years later, the family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as American as April in Arizona." He taught at Wellesley and Cor nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita...