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...only imagine the outrage. I personally take issue with any of Hepps's statements, for I am a 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...
BORN: April 4, 1927, Phoenix EDUCATION: Arizona State U, B.S., 1951 FAMILY: Divorced; three children RELIGION: Seventh-day Adventist MILITARY: Navy, 1943-46 OCCUPATION: Cotton farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Arizona House, 1959-67; Arizona Senate, 1967-76; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box F, Tolleson...
BORN: June 3, 1926, Moreland, Ky. EDUCATION: Columbia Union College, B.A., 1947; U of Maryland, M.S., 1948, Ph.D., 1952 FAMILY: Wife, Ellen; 10 children RELIGION: Seventh-day Adventist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor, scientist, small-business owner POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3662, Frederick...
BORN: Jan. 12, 1950, Jamaica, N.Y. EDUCATION: Yale, B.A. 1972; U of Virginia, J.D., 1975 FAMILY: Husband, Elwyn; two children RELIGION: Seventh-Day Adventist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: Houston municipal judge, 1987-89; Houston city council, 1990-94; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: 3701 Main, Houston...
...spend the rest of her life in mental institutions. Buchwald has no memory of her. His father, a draper at a time when few could afford drapes , was forced to place his four children in foster homes. One of the first was a boardinghouse for sick children, run by Seventh-Day Adventists, where Arthur stayed until he was five. His father visited on Sundays. When Arthur and his sister Doris started singing Jesus Loves Me, their father decided it was time for them to leave...