Jewish Secularism

Jewish Secularism

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Pride vs. Ambivalence—The Secular Jewish Dilemma

Revisiting progressive, secular Jewish values.

By Lawrence Bush

The World's Most Popular Book, Revisited

The Hebrew Bible is a rich cultural artifact. But a moral compass? That's another story.

By Yedidya Itzhaki

Stalin's Forgotten Zion

A look at one of Jewish History's most surprising—and almost universally forgotten—Zionist experiments.

By Zvi Gitelman

Thinkers

Godless Jews: The Original Atheists with Attitude

Part I: Ernestine Rose —

Man Made God in His Own Image

Part II: Karl Marx — Religion and Economics

Part III: Sigmund Freud — Religion as Neurosis

By Roi Ben-Yehuda

Baruch Spinoza:

The Last Medieval Heretic or the First Secular Jew?

The heresy of Baruch Spinoza.

By David Biale

Albert Einstein and World Peace

A look at the politics and

humanity of a scientific man.

By Lawrence Wittner

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Secular Thought

Modern Encounters

A leading scholar reflects on the idea

of modern Jewish cultures — plural.

By David Biale

God Has Seventy Faces
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Elior explores God —

the handiwork of man.

By Rachel Elior

The World's Most Popular Book, Revisited

The Hebrew Bible is a rich cultural artifact. But a moral compass?
That's another story.

By Yedidya Itzhaki

Multi-secularism

Why secular values

matter today.

By Paul Kurtz

"Separation of Church and State," La Roi, 1905.

Jews and Native Americans

Reflections on Insider/Outsider

Jewish Identity.

By Rachel Rubinstein

Todros, Geller. Fun Land Tsu Land (Yiddish title), 1937.

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History

Modernization, Secularization, and the

Refashioning of Jewish Identity

"Secularization has been one of the most significant

historical processes in Jewish history." Now we learn why.

By Shmuel Feiner

Stalin's Forgotten Zion

A look at one of Jewish History's most surprising—and almost universally forgotten—Zionist experiments.

By Zvi Gitelman

The Jewish Century

Nineteenth-century Jews championed

secularism and enlightenment.

By Yuri Slezkine

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