nonobservant

adjective

non·ob·ser·vant ˌnän-əb-ˈzər-vənt

: not observant

especially : not careful in observing religious rites, laws, and customs

a nonobservant Jew

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Raised in a nonobservant Jewish family in the affluent Bay Area town of Hillsborough, California, Grobman had been in trouble for years. —

Alix Wall, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021 About 300 people, most affiliated with EMIH but also including some nonobservant Hungarian Jews, attended a street celebration that culminated with the affixing of a new mezuzah at the synagogue by Rabbi Szlomo Koves, the head of EMIH. —

Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2021 Rabbi Steinsaltz was a devoted disciple of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994, and his Chabad-Lubavitch school of Judaism, which embraces nonobservant Jews and proselytizes among them. —

Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2020

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