His father and all his brothers entered Clairvaux to pursue religious life, leaving only Humbeline, his sister, in the secular world.

His ancestry was Ashkenazi Jewish, with his paternal line having supplied the rabbis of Trier since 1723, a role that had been taken up by his own grandfather, Meier Halevi Marx ; Meier's son and Karl's father would be the first in the line to receive a secular education.

His mother came from a very strict Catholic family who took communion every day, but his father was much more secular and had liberal political beliefs.

His father, Jacob ( Yakov ) Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual, who provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing.

Averroism eventually led to the development of modern secularism, for which Ibn Rushd is considered as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe.

He describes his father as a " conformist in religion ", while his mother and other family members important in his childhood were secular Jews ; shortly after his bar mitzvah he became an atheist.

His father was able later to obtain another teaching position within the secular system-it was not a job of a headship, however, and the family could not expect as high standards as they might have otherwise.

Born to a poor family ( his father was a shoemaker and his mother was a peasant ), Nin moved to Barcelona shortly before World War I ; he taught briefly in a secular anarchist school, but soon became a journalist and activist.

He has been called " the father of secular humanism ".

Though accepted as family after he stays with the Saunderses while his father is recovering at the hospital, he incurs Reb Saunders's wrath when he speaks favorably of the struggle to establish a secular Jewish nation in Palestine, which Saunders vehemently opposes.

Many themes common to Potok's works prevail such as weak women and children, strong father figures, intellectual characters, and the strength and validity of faith in a modern secular world.

The law since 1970 applies to those born Jews ( having a Jewish mother or maternal grandmother ), those with Jewish ancestry ( having a Jewish father or grandfather ) and converts to Judaism ( Orthodox, Reform, or Conservative denominations — not secular — though Reform and Conservative conversions must take place outside the state, similar to civil marriages ).

Upon telling his father of the decision to go secular, an emotional Friendly Sr. told them that they had to leave the house.

His father was a secular disciple of the Shaolin Temple, and instructed him in martial arts and lion dance at an early age.

He received a Jewish education in rabbinic literature from his father Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon and other teachers in Lunel taught him about medicine, Arabic and the secular knowledge of his age.

Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.

My uncles were quite secular ... and had hardly anything to do with the religion of their father and grandfathers ".

Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir (), also known by his kunya " Abu Jihad " ( — father of the struggle ) ( October 10, 1935 – April 16, 1988 ), was a Palestinian military leader and founder of the secular nationalist party Fatah.

Whereas the plan of Garner Ted Armstrong was to ease his aging father into retirement, the plan of Stanley Rader and his aide Robert Lawrence Kuhn was to transform Herbert W. Armstrong from an elderly evangelist into a more secular leader, casting him as a vital " Ambassador for World Peace without portfolio ".

His father was Jewish and his mother was Irish Catholic ; he was raised in a secular home.

His father was a cantor and his mother was secular.

The important Abbey of St. Riquier ( Centula ) in Picardy had secular abbots from the time of Charlemagne, who had given it to his friend Angilbert, the poet and the lover of his daughter Bertha, and father of her two sons ( see Saint Angilbert ).

" As formulated by Abraham Kuyper ( 1837 – 1920 ), the Dutch Reformed theologian ( called the father of Neo-Calvinism ) and prime minister of the Netherlands, the " cultural mandate " view teaches that all human endeavor, whether ostensibly sacred or secular, is part of building God's kingdom.

The son of Rabbi Leo Wise, a school-teacher, Isaac received his early Hebrew education from his father and grandfather, later continuing his Hebrew and secular studies in Prague.

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

She once stated, " My father is a Syrian Jew whose family immigrated to Brazil.

His mother, a devout Catholic from Corscia, was once a professional singer, while his father, an assimilated Jew who had converted to Protestantism, ran a successful wine-export business.

Dalos spent his childhood with his grandparents, as his father had died in 1945 in a work camp, where he had been sent to as a Jew during World War II.

Although himself a practicing orthodox Jew, he has been referred to as the father of Reform Judaism.

Her father was a British Jew whose family was from Poland ( Trzepowo village near Plock City ).

His father was an Orthodox Jew with a very literal interpretation of his faith, Gollancz's dislike of this attitude coloured his approach to organised Judaism for much of his life, however he continued to practise many Jewish rituals at home.

Antonia had many male friends and they included wealthy Jew Alexander the Alabarch and Lucius Vitellius, a consul and father of future Emperor Aulus Vitellius.

), was a Litvak actress from Švenčionys and his father was a businessman Arieh-Leib Kacew ( 1883 — 1942 ) from Trakai, also a Lithuanian Jew.

On the other hand, Philo of Alexandria calls the child of a Jew and a non-Jew a nothos ( bastard ), regardless of whether the non-Jewish parent is the father or the mother.

Jews who adhere to Orthodox or Conservative Rabbinism therefore believe that Jewish status by birth is passed by a Jewish female to her children ( if she herself is a Jew by birth or by conversion to Judaism ) regardless of the Jewish status of the father.

Hyman's father, a Polish / Russian Jew, adopted the surname when he immigrated to the United States as a youth.

His father is Jewish and his mother is French Canadian ; Lamberg considers himself to be a " cultural Jew.

He was an illustrious Jew ...” When Schneerson was eleven years old, Vilenkin informed the boy's father that he had nothing more to teach his son.

In 1949 Vincent Burke ( born 1 December 1917 in Philadelphia ; died March 1978 in Philadelphia ), a 130 pound Hebrew-speaking black Jew, the son of an immigrant father from Kingston, Jamaica, who worked as a chicken plucker at Jake's Chicken Market, a kosher butcher shop at 40th and Girard, as well as a carpenter, who was a guitar player, became his stepfather.

The philosophers Moses Maimonides ( a Jew born in Muslim Spain ) and Ibn Khaldun ( born in modern-day Tunisia ), the father of sociology and historiography, were also important philosophers, though the latter did not identify himself as a falsafa, but rather a kalam author.

Yucef Franco, aged 20, a cobbler, the Tembleque Jew mentioned by Benito Garcia, was arrested by the Inquisition on July 1, 1490 along with his father Ça Franco, aged 80.

Bloomsday has also been celebrated since 1994 in the Hungarian town of Szombathely, the fictional birthplace of Leopold Bloom's father, Virág Rudolf, an emigrant Hungarian Jew.

His father is from Trinidad of ethnic Portuguese descent, and his mother an English Jew.

The diary was published after the end of the war by her father Otto Frank ( played by Joseph Schildkraut, also a Jew ).

His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old.

Nicolae Cajal, a Romanian Jewish member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and the President of the Jewish Communities ' Federation of Romania from 1994 to 2004, defended recognition of Paulescu's scientific work, saying there is a need to distinguish between individuals ' private views and their scientific merit and that his father, a student of Paulescu, had admired Paulescu for his scientific skills though he disagreed ( as a Jew ) with Paulescu's anti-Semitic views.