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• s  failing or refusing to observe religious customs

• Nonkosher butchers usually keep a low profile in Israel, supplying meats to Christians and nonobservant Jews.
• She joined a kibbutz, served in the Israeli army, raised her son and daughter as Jews, and though nonobservant, celebrates Judaism's major feasts in her house.
• The teachers, weak Christians and nonobservant Jews, make a show of teaching virtue and righteous self-restraint, but their shifty eyes and hollow voices betray their lack of .