Since then, he says, secular Jewry has given us education but no culture, and he basically equated Jewish secular culture with reality TV. As a result, ...

As a Yiddishist, I feel that these cultural ties are just as significant as more mainstream definitions of Jewish commitment. Unfortunately, many secular Jews today simply don’t know enough ...

David Biale is Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Davis.

Ariela Keysar, an associate professor at Trinity College who has studied religious identity, said Jewish literature, theater, comedy and other cultural activities could be another way to engage ...

Project Feeds Secular Culture into Universities’ Jewish Studies. May 22, 2006. ... might never have met if not for Eugene Rothman’s modern Jewish civilization course at the University of Miami.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (JTA) — When Mark Neuman celebrated his bar mitzvah seven years ago at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture in Vancouver, B.C., he didn’t read from Torah, wear a ...

Jewish New Year (5777, by the Hebrew calendar) is almost upon us. As in years past, many Jews will attend synagogue faithfully. The majority of U.S. Jews, however, will mark these events without ce… ...

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.

In 2010, Jewish philosopher Michael Walzer wrote that outside of Israel, “secular Jewishness isn’t sufficiently institutionalized to sustain itself by itself” due to the lack of Jewish life ...

This class is something of an anomaly: a place where secular Jewish children study Yiddish, Jewish history and culture every week. It’s an afterschool program called Kindershule.

Growing up Jewish, Marilyn McLaughlin loved lighting the braided candle and singing to mark the end of Shabbat. She relished studying the Talmud and weighing its ethical questions. But sitting in ...