It is the appropriate balance of study, faith, personal observance and social justice that makes Judaism so relevant to millions of Americans.
With last year's swirl of memorials and news media coverage, trustees said, the 10th anniversary gave rise to an emotional fatigue — even among the families of the dead, who agreed with the council that a more personal observance was in order.
The yamas and niyamas, yoga's ethical systems of personal observances and guidelines for being in the world, could stand in for Bernie's platform.
His emphasis on personal religious observance and his pragmatic approach to church dogma proved influential in France and England as well as in Switzerland.
While I have no problem with anyone's personal religious observance, or lack thereof, I am somewhat confused by Leah Koenig's boyfriend's Sabbath practices (Lives, Sept. 14).
The group said in a statement that the legislation would not "adversely impact the free exercise of our personal pietistic observance of Islam" and added, "All people of faith need the government to protect their right to peaceful assembly, mediation and arbitration free of coercion".
Those demands are no longer Meretz's alone: Mr Barak himself, anxious to woo the large and mostly secular Russian-immigrant community, recently proposed a legislative programme designed to bring about a "secular revolution" in Israel, radically eroding the power of the rabbinate to adjudicate in matters of personal status and sabbath observance.
The laws, when not in direct conflict with the civil laws of the country of residence, are binding on every Bahá'í, and the observance of personal laws, such as prayer or fasting, is the sole responsibility of the individual.
There were no differences in the observance of personal cleanliness by the husbands of patients as compared with controls.
If we're to judge by the thousands of Sunni couples who flock to fertility clinics in Shiite Iran for embryo donations, observance remains deeply personal.
Other measures included repeated public health education through the mass media on observance of good personal hygiene, cleaning and disinfection of premises and articles both at home and at preschool centers, and keeping children away from crowds.
