Jewish Secularism

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Highlights...

Pride vs. Ambivalence—The Secular Jewish Dilemma

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Revisiting progressive, secular Jewish values.

By Lawrence Bush

 

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

By Yedidya Itzhaki

Stalin's Forgotten Zion
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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
 
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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?

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The heresy of Baruch Spinoza.

By David Biale

Albert Einstein and World Peace
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A look at the politics and
humanity of a scientific man. 

By Lawrence Wittner



Secular Thought

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


By Yedidya Itzhaki

Multi-secularism
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Why secular values
matter today.

By Paul Kurtz
 
 
"Separation of Church and State," La Roi, 1905. 

Jews and Native Americans
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Reflections on Insider/Outsider
Jewish Identity. 

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

History

Modernization, Secularization, and the
Refashioning of Jewish Identity
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"Secularization has been one of the most significant
historical processes in Jewish history." Now we learn why. 

By Shmuel Feiner

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

By Zvi Gitelman

The Jewish Century

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Nineteenth-century Jews championed
secularism and enlightenment.

By Yuri Slezkine