News

The secular trend among younger Jews is hardly unique to that denomination. Nearly one-third of American adults under 30 said they had no religious affiliation, according to a 2012 Pew survey.
Jewish humour is perhaps the weakest form of secular Jewish identity. ... Then perhaps we’ll be able to show the world that we have our own culture, that we aren’t just white Westerners.
At the same time, even the least religiously inclined television Jews assert their Jewish identities through overt, intertextual references to secular Jewish culture. Rebecca Bunch peppers her ...
Some students may thrive in a secular university because they may be called upon to take on leadership roles in a religious capacity, such as to help make the minyan or to arrange Torah study ...
Secular and Reform Israelis more religious than their American counterparts ... “But I think that my Jewish cultural background is obviously a big part of my culture and especially traditions.” ...
The upcoming school year at the Jewish Culture School will focus on a history of social action, including Jewish activism in labor, civil rights, immigration and other social justice movements, ...
The Secular Humanist Jewish Circle, a new Tucson group organized to celebrate Jewish culture and identity, is planning its first public event - an observance on Sept. 11 of the ...
With Passover just a week away, I made a trip to the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn to do some holiday shopping. Borough Park is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the world ...
Study classic Jewish texts, both sacred (the Hebrew Bible and Talmud) and secular, and examine Jewish history from biblical times to the present. The Jewish Culture minor considers Jews and Judaism as ...