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Here is devotion, fidelity, humility and faith.<\/p>\n

From The Washington Post:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The secrets that couldn\u2019t be known about beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff during his captivity were revealed in detail Wednesday: The 31-year-old was Jewish, had dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and apparently maintained his Jewish ritual life while being held by ISIS.<\/p>\n

The Forward, a major U.S. news organization covering Jewish issues, said it was among the media and Jewish organizations\u00a0that honored the request by Sotloff\u2019s family not to reveal his Jewish background<\/a>\u00a0and connections. According to The Forward, Sotloff was the grandson of Holocaust survivors, his mother was a synagogue preschool teacher in South Miami and he had written for Israeli publications.<\/p>\n

News of his death uncorked the emotion around the topic of his faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can now say that Steven Joel Sotloff was Jewish,\u201d read the first line of The Forward\u2019s editorial Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cApologies in advance for this horrid thought, but I\u2019m surprised that ISIS didn\u2019t behead the guy with the Jewish name first,\u201d Julia Ioffe, an editor at The New Republic,\u00a0tweeted to her 38,000 followers.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was unclear if Sotloff\u2019s captors knew he was Jewish or about his dual citizenship. The Guardian reported Wednesday that \u201cauthorities\u201d \u2013 unclear from which nation \u2013 had\u00a0\u201cgone to extraordinary lengths to expunge any reference from the Internet to his time spent\u201d in Israel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sotloff had freelanced for many publications including Time, Foreign Policy and The Jerusalem Report before vanishing in Syria in August 2013. He wasn\u2019t seen again until a video last month that showed another American journalist, James Foley, being beheaded.<\/p>\n

A few details about Sotloff\u2019s faith and his feelings about Israel began to come out Wednesday in the Israeli media.<\/p>\n

Yedioth Ahronoth quoted someone who was held captive with Sotloff\u00a0<\/a>as saying \u201che successfully managed to hide the fact he was Jewish from his captors, managing to fast for Yom Kippur by feigning sickness..He told them he was sick and doesn\u2019t want to eat, even though we were served eggs that day,\u201d the unnamed friend told the news site.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe used to pray secretly in the direction of Jerusalem. He would see in which direction (his Muslim captors) were praying and then adjust the angle,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

Traditionally Jews pray in the direction of Jerusalem; Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read on.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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