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, ...

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 yarmulke or pronounce Hebrew ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...

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.

Jewish pop-culture had quite the “Unorthodox” year. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 80°F. Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 ... secular Jewish comic-book artist E. Lockhart.

Jewish consciousness was still high, but Jewish identity was based on secular Jewish culture -- Yiddish literature, Zionism, Saul Bellow, the United Jewish Appeal's charitable crusades -- or ...

Secular Israelis feel no need for, and no sympathy toward, Jewish Orthodoxy. Israeli Jewish Orthodoxy reminds Israelis of a history and a communal existence that raise little nostalgia for the ...

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 ...