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Highways empty, shops close and transport networks shut down, as nonobservant Jews show respect to the devout by avoiding work and driving.

Margaret, on her own, struggles with religion: Her Christian mother and Jewish father — both nonobservant — have decided to allow Margaret to choose her faith, if she chooses any at all.

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.

Mr. Santos has said he is Catholic, but he has also claimed Jewish heritage on the campaign trail, and he recently told a Jewish news outlet that he was a nonobservant Jew.

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