Secular Thought

Secular Thought

Thinkers | History

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

By Yedidya Itzhaki

Modern Encounters

A leading scholar reflects on the idea of modern Jewish cultures — plural.

By David Biale

God Has Seventy Faces

Elior explores God —
the handiwork of man.

By Rachel Elior

Freethinkers in the Government?

Secularism belongs at the center, not the margins, of the American public square.

By Susan Jacoby

Alternative Judaisms

The history of Jewish movements is anything but straightforward.
By Felix Posen

Multi-secularism

"Separation of Church and State," La Roi, 1905.
Why secular values matter today.
By Paul Kurtz

Secular Jews and Pacifism

As a secular Jewish youth, my
heroes were hardly pacifists...
By Bennett Muraskin

Philosophical Roots of Jewishness

The history of secular Judaism and its philosophy.

By Dr. Paul G. Shane

Jews and Native Americans

Reflections on Insider/Outsider Jewish Identity.

By Rachel Rubinstein

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

The National Poetic Rebirth

of the Jewish People

A classic essay by an architect of
Jewish-American secularism.

By Haim Zhitlovsky

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