Identity

Ideas

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Exploring global Judaisms and Jewish homelands.
 
By Caryn Aviv and David Shneer

Personal Reflections on My Jewish Identity
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Notes on doubt, morality
and the bible as metaphor.

By Alan Dershowitz 

What's Left of a Jew Who Has
Abandoned Religion? (A lot.)
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An excerpt from
Confessions of a Secular Jew.
 
By Eugene Goodheart

 

 Digging for Roots at Secular Summer Camp
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A secular Jew finds her place in a non-traditional Jewish world.
 
By Katie Halper


Is There Such A Thing as "Jewish Identity"?

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Research has not always acknowledged
the fluidity of Jewish identity.

By Debra Kaufman

Queen Esther
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My Jewish Grandmother spoke Arabic.
By Vanessa Hidary

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A brief history of the politicization of secular Judaism in Israel.
By Dan Mahler

Culture is the glue to unite
the many strands of Jewishness
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Who is a Jew? The recent Supreme Court ruling has highlighted the deep differences between the many ways of answering that simple question.
By Felix Posen


Back to the Future
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Re-embracing core traditions to
create a modern Judaism.
 
By Douglas Rushkoff

Song of My Secular Self

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Humor, intelligence and love of a good sale. Author Lauren Sandler explores her Jewish identity.
 
By Lauren Sandler

Reflections on a Belated Apostasy
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Even as a kid, Naomi Seidman knew that there was a Jewish world beyond her Brooklyn shtetl.
 
By Naomi Seidman

Beyond Belief

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier on life after death, and Jewish stereotypes.
 
By Jesse Tisch

 


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