nonobservant

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He also claimed repeatedly to be a descendant of European Jews who fled to Brazil to escape the Holocaust and said that while he was religiously Catholic, he also identified as a nonobservant Jew.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

Raised in a largely nonobservant Jewish household, she had become a Catholic in the late 1940s.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

But break those numbers down, and you’ll notice something strange: A dramatic difference between the devout and the nonobservant.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

You can’t do that,” says Mark Bane, a partner and chairman of the Business Restructuring Department at Ropes & Gray, who co-founded Kayama, a nonprofit that encourages nonobservant divorcing Jews to obtain gets.

From Newsweek • Apr. 8, 2015

He was now a wealthy furrier and a thoroughly nonobservant Jew.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok