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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.
JTA — In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The ...
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 opportun ...
When I learned of the death of the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, at the age of 90, I tried to imagine what a relationship with him ...
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 ...
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.” ...
Jewish Texans push back against Christian bias in public school curriculum For many religious and secular taxpayers, the Texas Education Agency's proposed curriculum is another sign of the growing ...
As a scholar of modern Jewish history, religion and politics, I am often asked to explain the differences between Judaism’s major denominations.Here is a very brief overview: Rabbinic roots. Two ...
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 ...
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 ...