Secular  Thought

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

By Yedidya Itzhaki

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

Freethinkers in the Government?

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

By Susan Jacoby


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

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

Secular Jews and Pacifism
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As a secular Jewish youth, my
heroes were hardly pacifists...

By Bennett Muraskin


Philosophical Roots of Jewishness
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The history of secular Judaism and its philosophy.
 
By Dr. Paul G. Shane

 

 
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. 


The National Poetic Rebirth
of the Jewish People
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A classic essay by an architect of
Jewish-American secularism.

By Haim Zhitlovsky


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