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Jewish atheism refers to atheism as practiced by people who are ethnically, and to some extent culturally, Jewish. Because Jewishness encompasses ethnic as well as religious components, the term "Jewish atheism" does not necessarily imply a contradiction. Based on Jewish law's emphasis on matrilineal descent, even religiously conservative Orthodox Jewish authorities would accept an atheist born to a Jewish mother as fully Jewish.[1] One recent study found that half of all American Jews have doubts about the existence of God, compared to 10–15% of other American religious groups.[2]

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  [hide] 1 Organized Jewish life
2 Jewish theology
3 Secular Jewish culture
4 Notable people
5 See also
6 Notes
Organized Jewish life[edit]
There has been a phenomenon of atheistic and secular Jewish organizations, mostly in the past century, from the Jewish socialist Bund in early twentieth-century Poland to the modern Society for Humanistic Judaism in the United States. Many Jewish atheists feel comfortable within any of the three major non-Orthodox Jewish denominations (Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist). This presents less of a contradiction than might first seem apparent, given Judaism's emphasis on practice over belief, with even mainstream guides to Judaism suggesting that belief in God is not a necessary prerequisite to Jewish observance.[3] However, Orthodox Judaism regards the acceptance of the "Yoke of Heaven" (the sovereignty of the God of Israel in the world and the divine origin of the Torah) as a fundamental obligation for Jews. Even among non-Orthodox Jews, espousing atheism remains problematic outside of the Society for Humanistic Judaism. The Reform movement, for example, has rejected efforts at affiliation by atheistic temples.[4] The presence of atheists in all denominations of modern Judaism, from Secular Humanistic Judaism to Orthodoxy, has been noted.[5]
Jewish theology[edit]
Much recent Jewish theology makes few if any metaphysical claims and is thus compatible with atheism on an ontological level. The founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, Mordechai Kaplan, espoused a naturalistic definition of God, while some post-Holocaust theology has also eschewed a personal God.[6] The Jewish philosopher Howard Wettstein has advanced a non-metaphysical approach to religious commitment, according to which metaphysical theism-atheism is not the issue. [7] Harold Schulweis, a Conservative rabbi trained in the Reconstructionist tradition, has argued that Jewish theology should move from a focus on God to an emphasis on "godliness." This "predicate theology", while continuing to use theistic language, again makes few metaphysical claims that non-believers would find objectionable.[8]
However, some Jewish atheists remain deeply uncomfortable with the use of any kind of theistic language. For such Jews traditional practice and symbolism can still retain powerful meaning. They may continue to engage in Jewish rituals such as the lighting of Shabbat candles and find meaning in many aspects of Jewish culture and religion. For example, to an atheist Jew, the Menorah might represent the power of the Jewish spirit or stand as a symbol of the fight against assimilation. No mention of a divine force in Jewish history would be accepted literally; the Torah may be viewed as a common mythology of the Jewish people, not a faith document or correct history.
Secular Jewish culture[edit]
Many Jewish atheists would reject even this level of ritualized and symbolic identification, instead embracing a thoroughgoing secularism and basing their Jewishness entirely in ethnicity and secular Jewish culture. Possibilities for secular Jewishness include an identification with Jewish history and peoplehood, immersion in Jewish literature (including such non-religious Jewish authors as Philip Roth and Amos Oz), the consumption of Jewish food and an attachment to Jewish languages such as Yiddish, Hebrew or Ladino. A high percentage of Israelis identify themselves as secular, rejecting the practice of the Jewish religion (see Religion in Israel). While some non-believers of Jewish ancestry do not consider themselves Jews, preferring to define themselves solely as atheists, Judaism is arguably a culture and tradition that one can easily embrace without religious faith.[9]
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See also: List of Jewish atheists
A number of well-known Jews throughout history have rejected a belief in God. Some have denied the existence of a traditional deity while continuing to use religious language. In 1656 the seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated by Amsterdam's Sephardic synagogue after advancing a pantheist notion of God that, according to some observers, is both compatible with and paved the way for modern atheism.[10] Deeply influenced by Spinoza, Albert Einstein used theistic language and identified strongly as a Jew, while rejecting the notion of a personal god.[11] The astrophysicist Carl Sagan was born into a Jewish family and was a non-theist.[12]
Karl Marx was born into an ethnically Jewish family but raised as a Lutheran, and is among the most notable and influential atheist thinkers of modern history; he developed dialectical and historical materialism which became the basis for his critique of capitalism and his theories of scientific socialism. Marx became a major influence among other prominent Jewish intellectuals including Moses Hess. In one of his most cited comments on religion he stated: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".
Many other famous Jews have wholeheartedly embraced atheism, rejecting religiosity altogether. Sigmund Freud penned The Future of an Illusion, in which he both eschewed religious belief and outlined its origins and prospects. At the same time he urged a Jewish colleague to raise his son within the Jewish religion, arguing that "If you do not let your son grow up as a Jew, you will deprive him of those sources of energy which cannot be replaced by anything else."[13] The anarchist Emma Goldman was born to an Orthodox Jewish family and rejected belief in God, while the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, when asked if she believed in God, answered "I believe in the Jewish people, and the Jewish people believe in God."[14] More recently, the French Jewish philosopher Jacques Derrida stated somewhat cryptically, "I rightly pass for an atheist".[15] In the world of entertainment, Woody Allen has made a career out of the tension between his Jewishness and religious doubt ("How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?").[16]
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Conversion to Judaism
Christianity and Judaism
Jews in apostasy
Haskalah
Humanistic Judaism
Schisms among the Jews
Who is a Jew?
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1.Jump up ^ What Makes a Jew "Jewish"? – Jewish Identity
2.Jump up ^ Winston, Kimberly (September 26, 2011). "Judaism without God? Yes, say American atheists". USA Today. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ See, for example: Daniel Septimus, Must a Jew Believe in God?
4.Jump up ^ "Reform Jews Reject a Temple Without God", New York Times, June 13, 1994.
5.Jump up ^ http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2007/11/paul_beattys_2001_novel_tuff.html
6.Jump up ^ See, for example, Mordechai Kaplan, The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (New York: Behrman’s Jewish book house, 1937); Richard Rubenstein, After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966).
7.Jump up ^ Howard Wettstein, The Significance of Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 2012)
8.Jump up ^ See Harold M. Schulweis. Evil and the Morality of God (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1984); For Those Who Can't Believe : Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith (Harper Perennial, 1995).
9.Jump up ^ An example of an atheist rejecting Jewish identification is cited in "Hipster Antisemitism," Zeek, January 2005
10.Jump up ^ Christopher Hitchens, ed., The Portable Atheist (Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2007), 21.
11.Jump up ^ "The Religious Non-believer: Einstein and his God", Moment, April 2007.
12.Jump up ^ Sagan, Carl (February 12, 1986). "Chapter 23". Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. Ballantine Books. p. 330. ISBN 0-345-33689-5.
13.Jump up ^ David S. Ariel, What Do Jews Believe? (New York: Shocken Books, 1995), 248.
14.Jump up ^ See Emma Goldman, "The Philosophy of Atheism," in Christopher Hitchens, ed., The Portable Atheist (Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2007), 129–33; Golda Meir is quoted by Jonathan Rosen in "So Was It Odd of God?", The New York Times, December 14, 2003.
15.Jump up ^ Obituary for Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/11/2004
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Secular Culture & Ideas is a web journal about Jewish culture, literature, and thought. Founded in 2007, it was originally part of JBooks.com although it now maintains its own website [1]. The journal’s tag line is, “rethinking Jewish.”
Among the popular pieces published on Secular Culture & Ideas are interviews with Tony Kushner, Natalie Angier, and A.B. Yehoshua, and reviews of books by Jonathan Sarna and Susan Jacoby. The website features an articles section, and a blog, “News & Notes.” A special book section, “Bookshelf,” was introduced in 2011.
Secular Culture & Ideas is supported by the Posen Foundation, a non-profit that works internationally to promote Jewish culture and support Jewish education. Secular Culture & Ideas expanded its culture coverage in the summer of 2011 with its new section “Culture Currents.”

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3 Topics of interest
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
Contributors[edit]
Its contributors have included...
Aaron David Gordon, Rebecca Goldstein, Lawrence S. Wittner, Rachel Elior, Susan Jacoby, Paul Kurtz, Chaim Zhitlowsky, Michel Abitbol, Yuri Slezkine, Yaakov Malkin, Alan Dershowitz, Douglas Rushkoff, Natalie Angier, Rebecca Alpert, Ilan Stavans, Rodger Kamenetz, Alicia Ostriker, Yehuda Amichai, Chana Bloch, David G. Roskies, Michael Wex, Richard Chess, Nahma Sandrow, Tony Kushner, Irena Klepfisz, Aaron Lansky, Paul Buhle, Deborah Dash Moore, Peter Cole and Sherwin Wine.
Past issues[edit]
Secular Jewish Pioneers, March 2010
Jewish Studies, March 2010
New Books, December 2010
Expressions of Jewish Secularisms, November 2008
Back-to-School, September 2008
Jewish Languages, June 2008
Sephardic and Mizrahi Secularisms, January 2008
Memoirs, November 2007
Making Judaism Modern, September 2007
Renaissance of Yiddish, June 2007
Topics of interest[edit]
Roots of Secularisms
Secular Thinkers
Contemporary Topics
Literature & Arts
Holidays & Life-Cycle
See also[edit]
Center for Cultural Judaism
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Further reading[edit]
Center for Cultural Judaism, "Secular Culture & Ideas Debuts on Jbooks.com in Collaboration with the Posen Foundation," June, 2007
External links[edit]
Official website
Posen Foundation web site
Posen Foundation-Israel web site
American Jewish Identification Survey
Jewish Books - The Largest Online Provider Of Hebrew Sifrei Kodesh. Seforim,Sefer,Jewish Books,Kabbalah,Kabalah,Sforim.
 

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Posen Foundation

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The Posen Foundation is a private foundation, based in the United States and Switzerland, that distributes funds to causes focused around Jewish secular culture and education in Israel.

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History[edit]
The Posen Foundation was founded by Felix Posen in 2004. Posen started the Foundation to support Jewish secular culture projects. He was unhappy with, what he believed, was poor investment in Judaic Studies by academic programs.[1] In 2009, the Posen Foundation suspended select funds distributions due to the effect that the Madoff investment scandal had on Felix Posen's finances. Selected activities to be started or completed in 2009 were postponed until 2010.[2] As of 2009, Felix Posen served as President and his son, Daniel Posen, managed the foundation.[2]
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The Foundation distributes funds donated to the organization by the Posen family. Funds are donated to international Jewish secular culture programs and education organizations in Israel.[2] Programs include academic programs at universities, which may receive upwards of $50,000 to focus on Jewish studies. An academic advisory board reviews grant applications, which have included universities such as Harvard University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and The New School.[1] Past university recipients include State University of New York at Albany, Temple University, University of Denver, University of Miami, and others.[3] Funding is used to create academic courses and seminars.[4] In 2009, the Foundation supported a research project, co-founded by the Lilly Foundation, to study the decline of religion in the United States. The project was produced by Trinity College.[5] The Posen Foundation has distributed funds to help start the Center for Study of Anti-Semitism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2] In 2010, the Posen Foundation distributed seven grants to Israeli scholar's focusing on "Judaism as culture," and related studies.[6]
In 2012, the Posen Foundation and Yale University Press started Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. It is a 10-part publication covering the lives and work of Jewish people and culture from the 2nd millennium BC to 2005.[7]
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1.^ Jump up to: a b Brostoff, Marissa. "Jewish-Studies Money With Strings Attached". The Scroll. Tablet. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d Dattel, Lior. "Posen Foundation hit by Madoff fraud". Business. Haaretz. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
3.Jump up ^ "Temple University, State University of New York at Albany, University of California-Davis, University of Denver, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the University of Miami are each recipients of $50,000 grants from the Center for Cultural Judaism with support from the Posen Foundation". Black Issues in Higher Education. 20. Retrieved 28 December 2012.(subscription required)
4.Jump up ^ "University of Cincinnati Judaic Studies department receives prestigious grant for new courses on secular Jewish culture". US State News. Retrieved 28 December 2012.(subscription required)
5.Jump up ^ Boorstein, Michelle (9 March 2009). "15 Percent of Americans Have No Religion; Fewer Call Themselves Christians; Nondenominational Identification Increases". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Mandel, Jonah (2 June 2010). "News in brief". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
7.Jump up ^ Cohen, Patricia (30 April 2012). "A Ten-Volume Look at Jewish Culture". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
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Cultural Judaism encourages individual thought and understanding in Judaism. Its relation to Judaism is through the history, civilization, ethical values and shared experiences of the Jewish people. Cultural Jews connect to their heritage through the languages, literature, art, dance, music, food, and celebrations of the Jewish people. For example, Jews who identify only with their particular culture may call themselves Cultural Jews. There is no singular Jewish culture or ethnicity to claim as a Jewish Culture. This is because there are Jews of many different cultures; distinctly Jewish in their religious observances their cultural practices were influenced by the country in which the practices arose. For example, there are differences in the culture of Jews in Ashkenazi, or Eastern European communities from those in Sephardi, or Spanish influenced Jewish communities, but both Ashkenazi and Sephardi are Jewish cultures. In studying Jewish culture, the Jewish languages often give a clue as to the source of the culture influencing the different Jewish customs arising in the Diaspora.
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The Foundation for Jewish Culture (formerly the National Foundation for Jewish Culture) is the leading advocate for Jewish cultural life and creativity in the United States.
Founded in 1960, it supports writers, filmmakers, artists, composers, choreographers, and scholars, with grants and awards in the arts and humanities, and by sponsoring programs and national and international conferences. [1]
The Foundation for Jewish culture invests in creative individuals, in an effort to sustain and grow a dynamic, enduring sense of Jewish identity, community, and culture. To this end, the Foundation provides grants, recognition awards, networking opportunities and professional development services to artists and scholars, made possible through collaboration with cultural institutions, Jewish organizations, consortia, and funders. The Foundation also works to educate and build audiences for these artists and scholars, in order to provide meaningful Jewish cultural experiences to the American public, as well as advocates for the importance of Jewish culture as a core component of Jewish life. [2]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Programs 1.1 Film
1.2 Literature
1.3 Scholarship
1.4 Inside the Docs
1.5 American Academy in Jerusalem
1.6 Music
1.7 Encounter Culture
2 Partner Organizations 2.1 The Council of American Jewish Museums
2.2 Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists
2.3 All About Jewish Theatre
2.4 Schusterman Visiting Artist Program
3 Board Members
4 See also
5 Notes
6 External links
Programs[edit]
Film[edit]
The Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film supports the completion of original documentaries that explore the Jewish experience in all its complexity. The fund was created with a lead grant from Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation and sustained over 10 years with major support from the Charles H. Revson Foundation. The priority of the fund is to support projects that address significant subjects; offer fresh, challenging perspectives; engage audiences across cultural lines; and expand the understanding of Jewish experiences.
Among its recipients have been Trembling Before G-d, the critically acclaimed animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, and the upcoming Sidney Lumet: The Moral Lens.
[3] [4]
Literature[edit]
The Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers, established in 1999 and supported through a generous grant from the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation, is among the very first of its kind to highlight new works by contemporary writers exploring Jewish themes. The prize spotlights promising new talent, and is awarded to an American fiction writer for a first or second full-length work that was published in the previous calendar year. [5]


Scholarship[edit]
The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies encourages scholarly research, publication and teaching in the various disciplines of Jewish studies. Established in 1960, fellowships have been awarded to over 600 scholars, including many leaders in the field. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies are made for one academic year and are given for the final stages of completing an English-language dissertation, typically in the fifth year of study. [6]

The Jewish Studies Expansion Program (JSEP) was established in 2008 in response to significant data that showed Jewish studies courses to have the potential to attract students who might not otherwise engage in Jewish life on campus. JSEP creates more opportunities for Jewish learning and engagement at universities that have relatively large Jewish student populations but only limited ability to offer Jewish studies courses and related extracurricular activities. A JSEP matching grant permits the hire of a two-year postdoctoral teaching fellow who expands the number of courses offered and helps raise the profile of Jewish studies through cultural programs and other campus activities. [7]

The Sidney and Hadassah Musher Subvention Grant for First Book in Jewish Studies supports, on a biannual basis, the publication of an outstanding first book project by a recent Ph.D. The prize recognizes the originality, scope, and scholarly rigor of any first book published within approved categories related to Jewish studies. [8]


Inside the Docs[edit]
Inside the Docs is a free, educational program that uses Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film grantees to engage adults 18-30 in thought-provoking conversations about Judaism, Jewish culture, and Jewish identity. Each Inside the Docs film series, composed of three to four films, is based on a topic such as “New Perspectives on Israel,” “Social Justice/Jewish Values,” or “Identity and Inclusion.” [9]


American Academy in Jerusalem[edit]
Modeled on the successes of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin, the American Academy in Jerusalem is a new fellowship for senior-level artists and cultural leaders. The program provides each Fellow with travel to Israel, accommodations for nine weeks, a living stipend, and additional resources to develop individual projects emphasizing social engagement. The Foundation for Jewish Culture established the Academy in order to participate in a larger civic effort to strengthen Jerusalem as an international destination for art and culture. During their stay in Jerusalem, Fellows work with local cultural and/or academic institutions where they teach master classes, serve as mentors, or otherwise participate in the life of these institutions in order to interact with their peers. The Fellows engage with Jerusalem’s diverse populations through projects emphasizing social engagement and make public presentations about their current work in Israel when they return to the United States. [10] [11] [12] [13]


Music[edit]
New Jewish Culture Network, an initiative to create and deliver outstanding Jewish music and other art forms to audiences in the U.S. and beyond, was established in 2011. The Foundation for Jewish culture and its network of partner presenters commission artists for cross-country tours of musical performance and accompanying educational workshops. [14]


Encounter Culture[edit]
Encounter Culture brings together artists and scholars with lovers of Jewish Culture in unique and intimate settings. Sponsors and their guests partner with Foundation grantees from a myriad of artistic and scholarly backgrounds to deepen connections, explore the creative process, and discuss what constitutes Jewish Culture today. [15]


Partner Organizations[edit]
The Council of American Jewish Museums[edit]
The Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) was founded in 1977 under the auspices of the Foundation for Jewish Culture and is committed to strengthening the Jewish museum field in North America. Through training of museum staff and volunteers, information exchange, and advocacy on behalf of Jewish museums, CAJM assists its institutional, individual, and affiliate members as they educate and inspire diverse audiences on all aspects of Jewish culture and history. [16] [17]


Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists[edit]
The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists supports individual artists who want to develop new projects with a Jewish focus, theme, or element. It is a strategic partnership of Avoda Arts, Foundation for Jewish Culture, and JDub Records. The fellowship is based on the belief that creative expression is essential to Jewish community, identity, and meaning, and the fellowship was created to support the artists who contribute to that process. The two-year program provides emerging artists working in music, visual arts, and performing arts with a living stipend, financial project support, professional development workshops, and ongoing peer and professional-led learning opportunities. [18] [19] [20]


All About Jewish Theatre[edit]
The online publication of Plays of Jewish Interest, compiled by the Foundation, is available on All About Jewish Theatre, the global Web site to promote and enhance Jewish theater and performing arts worldwide. This resource includes approximately 1,500 plays, along with comprehensive information regarding authors, cast and casting requirements, production notes and history, subject matter, synopses, script sources and reviews. The database can be searched using a variety of criteria, and contributions may be submitted so that the list grows and stays up to date. The Foundation published the first version in 1982, as a resource for theater companies, scholars, and educators. Edited by Michael Posnick and Dr. Ellen Schiff, the 2007 expanded edition focuses primarily on Jewish plays written in and translated into English, as well as Israeli and Yiddish theater. All About Jewish Theatre was initiated, designed, and launched by Moti Sandak. [21] [22]
In 2010 Mark Ejlenberg joined as a new chairman.[citation needed]
Schusterman Visiting Artist Program[edit]
One of the largest organized residency programs of Israeli artists ever to launch in the U.S., the Schusterman Visiting Artist Program began in fall 2008 and offers unprecedented opportunities for Americans to experience Israeli culture. The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation supports the Schusterman Visiting Artists Program to provide Israeli artists from various disciplines with time spent in North America. These residencies last for two to four months and take place at some of the nation’s most esteemed universities, museums, and other cultural organizations. The program has a special focus on fostering high levels of interaction between the artists and the local communities where they are based. The goal of the new program is to engage American audiences with Israeli artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and choreographers. Also, the program is intended to provide professional development experiences and cultural exposure for Israeli artists outside their home country. [23] [24]
Board Members[edit]
Board Co-Chairs Judith Ginsberg and Marc Stanley
President and CEO Elise M. Bernhardt
Vice Chairs Naomi Caspe and Jean Friedman
Treasurer Allen Greenberg
Secretary S. Fitzgerald Haney
See also[edit]
Secular Jewish culture
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ About the Foundation for Jewish Culture
2.Jump up ^ http://moviecitynews.com/2010/12/the-foundation-for-jewish-culture-announces-2010-recipients-of-the-lynn-and-jules-kroll-fund-for-jewish-documentary-film/
3.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/film/
4.Jump up ^ http://moviecitynews.com/2010/12/the-foundation-for-jewish-culture-announces-2010-recipients-of-the-lynn-and-jules-kroll-fund-for-jewish-documentary-film/
5.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/goldberg/
6.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/cohen/
7.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/jsep/
8.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/sidney-and-hadassah-musher-subvention-grant-for-first-book-in-jewish-studies/
9.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/inside-the-docs/
10.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/american-academy-in-jerusalem/
11.Jump up ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/06/13/2011-06-13_icons_bridging_cultures_from_ny_to_israel.html#ixzz1PARQklxS
12.Jump up ^ http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/museums/jerusalem_home_american_artists
13.Jump up ^ http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/138659/
14.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/music-touring-network/
15.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/new-initiatives/
16.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/council-of-american-jewish-museums/
17.Jump up ^ http://cajm.net/about-us/
18.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/six-points-fellowship-for-emerging-jewish-artists/
19.Jump up ^ http://www.sixpointsfellowship.org/about
20.Jump up ^ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Six-Points-Fellowship-for-prnews-2709627634.html?x=0
21.Jump up ^ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/aboutUs_overview.aspx
22.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/all-about-jewish-theatre/
23.Jump up ^ http://jewishculture.org/schusterman-visiting-artist-program/
24.Jump up ^ http://www.schusterman.org/programs/israel/schusterman-visiting-israeli-artists-program
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Camp Hemshekh

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Camp "Hemshekh" (Yiddish, ייִדיש: "continuation" Literally: Camp "Continuation")[1] was a Jewish summer camp in the USA that was founded in 1959 by Holocaust survivors who were active in the Jewish Labour Bund, a Jewish, socialist workers' party in Eastern Europe.[2] The camp was sponsored by the Bund as well.[3] Camp Hemshekh had as its goal instilling in its campers the ideals of the Jewish socialist movement that flourished in interwar Poland: socialism, secular Yiddish culture, equality and justice, and the Bundist concept of doikayt, “hereness,” that Jews should live, build their culture and struggle for their rights wherever they dwell, rather than seeking refuge in a Jewish homeland.[4] Although, most campers will say that they did not feel that they had been indoctrinated. Camp Hemshekh closed in 1978 because the number of campers diminished.[5][6] A Hemshekh camper is called a Hemshekhist (the plural is Hemshekhistn).

Contents
  [hide] 1 Campsites
2 Ghetto Night
3 Music
4 "Ghetto Denkmol"
5 Memory as an element in the Camp
6 Notable campers
7 Reunions 7.1 1987 reunion
7.2 1999 reunion
7.3 50th Anniversary (2009) reunion
8 See also
9 External links
10 Online Newspaper articles
11 References
Campsites[edit]
Camp Hemshekh was located at five campsites:

Liberty
Beecher
Turkey Point
Hunter
Mountaindale
1959 1960 1961 1962–1968 1969–1978
 Near Hunter Near Saugerties  
Ghetto Night[edit]
One of the more memorable events each summer was "Ghetto Night". Ghetto Night took place on the third Sunday of August.[4] Ghetto Night was a solemn, all-day commemoration of the Jewish partisans and victims of the Nazis that culminated in a gripping English and Yiddish retelling of the Holocaust through poetry and song. At the end of the performance, as the piano softly played the haunting melody of Ani Ma'amin (reportedly sung by Jews during the Holocaust as they entered the gas chambers), the camp walked out single file, and followed a torch-lit path to the "Ghetto Denkmol".[1] One of the Ghetto Night programs, titled “Varshever Oyfshtand un Geto Akademie” (“Warsaw Uprising and Ghetto Program”), was as close the camp came to a religious service in the adamantly secular Camp Hemshekh. It began with a bellowed command: “Z’khor! Gedenk vos es hot geton mit dayn folk der daytshisher nazi amalek” — “Remember! Remember what the German Nazi Amalek did to your people.” It closed with a pledge that they chanted in unison: “To remember and remember and remember for all time.” This was followed by a call and response: “Let there be no forgetfulness! No forgetfulness! Let there be no dimming of memory! No dimming of memory! Let the memory be clear as glass, cold as ice and bright as a diamond.” This Ghetto Night Program included the heartrending, untitled poem that concluded: “The hands of the killers/Broke the locked hold/Of our mother’s mad embrace/It was all in vain/The frantic cries/The murderer-hands clawed our flesh/Hurled us against the wall/To instant death.” It included the gruesome, like Yuri Suhl’s “The Permanent Delegate”: “I am the spasm of a body convulsed in flames, the crumbling of a skeleton, the boiling of blood,” and the macabre, such as Aaron Zeitlin’s “Kinder fun Majdanek” (“Children of Majdanek”): “Kopele, where is your head? Where is the light of your eyes?” At its heart, however, the program was a tribute to Jewish Resistance. Much of the text was taken from Never to Forget: the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto, written by Howard Fast and William Gropper, published in 1946 by the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, International Workers Order There were also up-tempo, bold songs like Shmerke Kaczergin-ski’s Yid Du Partizaner — “Fun di getos tfise vent/in di velder fraye/anshtot keytn oyf di hent/kh’alt a biks a naye!” (“From the ghetto’s prison walls/into the free forests/Instead of chains on my hands/I carry a new rifle!”)[4] The Camp Hemshekh Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Program (1975) script (PDF) The Camp Hemshekh Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Program (1976) script (PDF)
Music[edit]
Singing was an integral part of the camp. At breakfast, in the dimly lit dining room, campers belted out popular Yiddish and English camp tunes to the accompaniment of an aging piano; during rest hour, selected campers would rehearse the Yiddish musical numbers for the "Visiting Day" plays, the midsummer Holocaust commemoration or some other cultural event; and a favorite pastime for campers and counselors alike was sitting with friends under the Milkh Boym (Milk Tree), strumming the guitar, and trying to remember all the lyrics to Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs hits. [7]
"Ghetto Denkmol"[edit]
There were two version of the "Ghetto Denkmol". The first "Ghetto Denkmol" was a small, white wooden booth and had a mosiac of a Ghetto fighter built in 1962 by the now world-famous architect, Daniel Libeskind. The second version was a simple memorial that consisted of a replica of the barbed-wire, glass-encrusted ghetto wall, and six black signposts of representing the 6 million Jews murdered, each one inscribed, in Yiddish, with the name of a death camp. In the center stood a striking mosaic of the same ghetto fighter built by Daniel Libeskind. His mosaic partisan was a young man dressed in military-style garb, triumphantly stepping out of flames, one arm thrusting a rifle, the other with fist clenched. The face was an oval devoid of features.
On "Ghetto Day", a boy and girl from the group of oldest campers stood vakh (Yiddish for watch or vigil) at the Denkmol throughout the day. Dressed in work-shirts and red bandanas, they were silent and solemn, changing shifts every hour so that the wall was never unguarded, and so all the oldest campers had the chance to perform this honor.[1][4]
Memory as an element in the Camp[edit]
Memory was embedded everywhere, beginning with the camp’s name: Hemshekh means “continuation” in Yiddish. A banner above the stage in the hall where we performed plays and had socials implored, “Lomir Trogn Dem Gayst Vos Men Hot Undz Fartroyt” — “Let us carry the spirit that has been entrusted to us.” A small rock garden where we held campfires and meetings was named in honor of Froim Lozer, a Bundist who had fought for a small park to be built in the crowded, dirty industrial city of Lodz for workers to enjoy a bit of air after long hours in the textile factories. Even nature was pressed into the service of memory: Small wooden plaques nailed to trees bore the names Henryk Ehrlich and Viktor Alter, Bundist activists and resistance organizers murdered by Joseph Stalin’s police, and Mordechai Anielewicz, the 23-year-old commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[1]
Notable campers[edit]
1.Daniel Libeskind
2.Binyumen Schaechter
3.Zalmen Mlotek
4.Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
5.Lazer Lederhendler
Reunions[edit]
1987 reunion[edit]
On Sunday, November 15, 1987, a Camp Hemshekh reunion was held on the Windows on the World restaurant, at the World Trade Center. About 200 campers, from all over the world came.
1999 reunion[edit]
There was a reunion in 1999.
50th Anniversary (2009) reunion[edit]
On October 10 through October 12, 2009 (Columbus Day Weekend), Camp Hemshekh had its 50th Anniversary Reunion in New York City. The main event took place on Sunday, October 11, 2009, at the Workmen’s Circle Building. It began at noon, and continued through the night.
Saturday’s activities consisted of informal house pot-luck gatherings at the homes of Hemshekhistn from the different generations of camp, who live in or near New York City. No less than nine campers visited the old campsites at the Hunter and Mountaindale campsites. Photos of the remanence of the campsites were posted on the walls at the main event, along with photos of the camp, and campers from the different years. At least five hundred photos were taken during the various parts reunion. Extensive, yet rough video footage was taken at the main event. Using that footage, previous films and the many photographs of Camp Hemshekh, a basic film is planned to be created. The majority of uploaded photos and videos of this reunion, previous ones, and of Hemshekh in general, can be found on the Camp Hemshekh Facebook group, here, and here.[8][9][10][11] This reunion was mainly organized by the Reunion Komitet (Reunion Committee), including George Rothe, Sabina Brukner, Michael "Toes" Rosenberg and Lisa Geduldig.[12] About 200 campers came to the main event.
See also[edit]
General Jewish Labour Bund
S.K.I.F.
Tsukunft
The Workmen's Circle
Jewish Left
External links[edit]
The Camp Hemshekh 2009 Reunion website
The Camp Hemshekh Facebook group
The Camp Hemshekh 50th Anniversary Reunion Facebook event
The Camp Hemshekh Youtube Channel
Teddy Crane's (Camp Hemshekh camper) Photo Archive
Downloadable Various Camp Hemshekh Material by Sabina Brukner, Includes "1965 Olympics Fakeout" (PDF), "1975 Ghetto Night Script" (PDF), "1976 Ghetto Night Script" (PDF), 1975 "Counselor Play: Di Tsvey Kuni Leml" (mp3 26mb), "1999 Reunion Newsletter" (PDF), "1999 Reunion Songbook" (PDF), "1999 Reunion Songbook"-P.21 (PDF).
An old Camp Hemshekh website (defunct) by David Reed
Online Newspaper articles[edit]
"Beyond Tumbala, Tumbala..." by Rukhl Schaechter
"Remembering ‘Hair’ and The Tangle of the 1960s" by Rukhl Schaechter
"Resistance: Camp Hemshekh and a Survivor’s Daughter" by Margie Newman
"Camp in the Catskills: A Summer Tradition" by Rukhl Schaechter
"Camp memories: Catskills camp and a life of comedy" by Lisa Geduldig
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d http://www.forward.com/articles/108421/
2.Jump up ^ http://www.forward.com/articles/10665/
3.Jump up ^ http://www.yivoinstitute.org/index.php?tid=106&aid=266
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d http://www.jewishcurrents.org/2009_mar_newman.htm
5.Jump up ^ http://www.forward.com/articles/108421//
6.Jump up ^ http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/jan-feb-04/lilibaxter.html
7.Jump up ^ [1]
8.Jump up ^ http://www.hemshekh2009.org/
9.Jump up ^ http://www.hemshekh2009.org/activities.htm
10.Jump up ^ http://www.hemshekh2009.org/tours.htm
11.Jump up ^ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200724980132
12.Jump up ^ http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=8135227238&topic=10893
 

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Tablet Magazine

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Tablet Magazine
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Tablet Magazine is an online publication of Jewish life, arts, and ideas. Sponsored by Nextbook, it was launched in June 2009. Its Editor in Chief is Alana Newhouse.
Tablet magazine runs several new pieces each day, in addition to hourly updates on its blog, The Scroll. It also produces weekly installments of its podcast, Vox Tablet.
Tablet's regular contributors include the cultural critic Adam Kirsch; theater critic Judith Miller; music critic Elizabeth Wurtzel; novelists Etgar Keret and Shalom Auslander; food writer Joan Nathan; and European culture writer Vladislav Davidzon.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Notable stories
2 Awards
3 References
4 External links
Notable stories[edit]
In June 2009, Tablet's podcast, Vox Tablet, ran a piece by reporter Eric Molinsky, about the unknown history of the Jewish actresses who were Bollywood's biggest stars in the 1920s and 1930s. The piece was one of three that won Tablet its first National Magazine Award.[citation needed]
In April 2010, Tablet's blogger, Marc Tracy, wrote a humorous post arguing the cookie dough ought to be kosher for Passover, as it, too, is unleavened. The post was one of several that won Tablet its second National Magazine Award.[citation needed]
In 2012, questions by Michael C. Moynihan, writing for Tablet, led to Jonah Lehrer's resignation from The New Yorker: Lehrer had invented and cobbled together quotes attributed to Bob Dylan for his biography of the singer, Imagine: How Creativity Works.[1]
Awards[edit]
Tablet has won two National Magazine Awards.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Kamer, Foster. "Q & A: Michael C. Moynihan, The Guy Who Uncovered Jonah Lehrer’s Fabrication Problem". New York Observer.
External links[edit]
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Center for Cultural Judaism

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The establishment of The Center for Cultural Judaism in New York in 2003 is the first major organizational change on the American Jewish scene in reaction to emerging new insights into American Jewish demography, as cited in the American Jewish Identity Survey (AJIS 2001). Salient among those insights is the emergence of a very large population of Jews – and for many their non-Jewish spouses as well – who do not find meaning in Judaism as a religion, but for whom Judaism as a culture is meaningful. The Center for Cultural Judaism focuses its work on implementing educational and outreach programs designed to reach this large, underserved population.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Posen Project
2 Secular Culture & Ideas
3 Contemplate
4 Activities
5 See also
6 External links
Posen Project[edit]
The Center for Cultural Judaism invites grant applications for the Posen Project for the Study of secular Jewish history and cultures. These grants are intended to cultivate and support the interdisciplinary study of secular Jewish history and cultures within already well-established university programs and departments of Jewish Studies, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology or other related disciplines. Grants will be awarded to support the teaching of two to four courses per year in the origin, history, development, texts, philosophy, writings and practices of Jewish secularism.
Over thirty institutions in North America and Europe are associated with the Posen Project for the study of secular Jewish history and cultures. New institutions joining the project recently include Brandeis University, Goucher College, Harvard University, Lehigh University, Rice University, Sorbonne - School of Graduate Studies, University College London, University of Kansas, and University of Wroclaw.
Similar programs are underway in Israel at the University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, Ofakim Teachers' Program at Tel Aviv University, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and the Open University, among others.
Secular Culture & Ideas[edit]
This innovative journal explores the many ways secular Jews connect to our heritage — through Jewish art, history, languages, literature, philosophy, foodways, folklore, and politics. Regularly updated, Secular Culture & Ideas offers a range of articles on subjects including Roots of Jewish Secularism, Secular Thinkers, Holidays and Life-Cycle, as well as past issues and a blog, Secular News & Notes.
Contemplate[edit]
Since its debut in 2001, Contemplate: The International Journal of Cultural Jewish Thought has published three volumes of essays, articles, and poetry about secular Jewish culture and progressive Jewish politics. A hybrid of literary and scholarly writing, its contributors have included Amos Oz, Ilan Stavans, and A.B. Yehoshua; the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky; and a host of well-known writers and thinkers.
Contemplate is published annually by the Center for Cultural Judaism.
Activities[edit]
The Center for Cultural Judaism is creating a central library of books, articles and videos on secular, Humanistic and cultural Judaism, with many books available for purchase at the Center. An extensive bibliography of books on secular Judaism is available on the website.
The Internet site also connects those in search of like-minded people with a Jewish community that supports their beliefs as well as providing cultural Jewish celebrations, services, and rites of passage to help engage non-religious, secular, cultural, and Humanistic Jews in Jewish life.
See also[edit]
Secular Jewish culture
Humanistic Judaism
Society for Humanistic Judaism
City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism
Posen Foundation
External links[edit]
Official website
Secular Culture & Ideas website
 

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Nextbook

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Nextbook is a nonprofit, Jewish organization founded in 2003 to promote Jewish literature, culture, and ideas. The organization sponsors public lectures, commissions books on Jewish topics, and publishes an online magazine, Tablet Magazine.[1][2][3][4][5]
On June 9, 2009, Nextbook changed the name of its online magazine from Nextbook to Tablet Magazine.[6]
External links[edit]
Tablet Magazine
Nextbook.org
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.nextbook.org/aboutus/
2.Jump up ^ Nextbook Disappears The Only Organization Specifically Promoting Jewish Literature in Seattle, CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE, The Stranger, July 8, 2008 [1]
3.Jump up ^ July 9, 2008 In which the writer discovers Nextbook’s new read on culture, Tom Tugend, Jewish Journal [2]
4.Jump up ^ June 22, 2008, Nextbook, Jewish literature organization, ends Seattle series Nextbook, a national organization that showcases Jewish literature, culture and ideas, is closing down its Seattle literary series. By Mary Ann Gwinn Seattle Times [3]
5.Jump up ^ November 7, 2003 Chabon kicks off Nextbook initiative, Seattle Post-Intelligencerl [4]
6.Jump up ^ Nextbook becomes Tablet, By Jacob Berkman · June 9, 2009 [5]
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Kahal B'raira

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Kahal B’raira is a congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.[1] Affiliated with the Society for Humanistic Judaism,[2] Kahal B’raira (pronounced ka-HAL breyra) has offered a nontheistic alternative in contemporary Jewish life since 1975. The congregation aims to welcome all who identify with the history, culture and fate of the Jewish people,including multi-faith families and LGBTQ families.[3]

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  [hide] 1 Sunday School
2 Sunday meetings
3 Adult Education
4 Holidays
5 Social action and community involvement
6 Social events
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Sunday School[edit]
Kahal B'raira offers secular Jewish education for young people ages 3–14.[4] It also offers bar/bat mitzvah and teen programming including a youth group and employment opportunities in the Sunday School. Students involved in the Bar/Bat Mitzvah program[5] and the Youth group[6] also undertake additional social action projects. The Sunday School collects tzedakah in class throughout the year and then decides collectively what causes to support.
Sunday meetings[edit]
The congregation primarily draws members[7] from Eastern and Central Massachusetts. Adults meet concurrently with the Sunday School 15 times a year.[8] The morning with the children and adults together. After the children leave for class, adult members participate in member-led secular services, and a featured presentation by a guest lecturer on a topic typically relating to Jewish culture, humanism, history, philosophy, arts, society, politics, or other issues. Some past topics include “When General Grant Expelled the Jews”, “Current events in the Middle East”, “Jewish Cooking”, and an annual book group (past books have included “The Zookeeper’s Wife” by Diane Ackerman, “Patrimony” by Philip Roth and “What Remains” by Nicholas Delbanco.
Adult Education[edit]
In addition to Sunday morning programming, adult members may participate in additional Adult Ed classes. These may be member led, or may be in a weekend seminar[9] taught by a Scholar-in-Residence.[10] Weekend seminars have been held in 2009, 2010. Another seminar is planned for the weekend from December 13–15, 2013.
Holidays[edit]
The major Jewish holidays[11] are celebrated include high holiday services, building of and eating in the sukkah, a Tu Bishvat program, a congregational Passover Seder, a Chanukah meal and party and periodic Shabbat services and get-togethers.
Social action and community involvement[edit]
The congregation aims to encourage activities related to social service and social justice, adult education, and social events.[12] The community is lay-led.
The congregation also has a social action committee[13] which coordinates events over the course of the year. Ongoing events have included a blood drive, volunteering at Gaining Ground Farm, serving meals on Christmas at First Church Shelter, contributing to Jewish Family and Children's Services' Family Table food pantry, participating in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of service in partnership with the City Mission Society,[14] adopting needy children/families at holiday time and bringing journaling workshops to women incarcerated at Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Framingham, and also through the congregation’s "Sheltering Arts Program."
The congregation’s Chesed (Caring) committee[15] offers support to members facing medical illness or other crises helping members in need.
Social events[edit]
The Kahal B’raira community also offers informal social events throughout the year including organized potluck dinners, an annual winter get-away weekend, group outings to Red Sox games, a summer barbecue and a day at the beach.
See also[edit]
Jewish culture
Humanistic Judaism
International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org
2.Jump up ^ http://www.shj.org
3.Jump up ^ http://joi.org/bigtent/?sec=find&page=directory&state=MA
4.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/youth/sunday-school
5.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/youth/bar-bat-mitzvah
6.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/youth/youth-group
7.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/membership
8.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/calendar
9.Jump up ^ http://www.iishj.org/
10.Jump up ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thejewishadvocate/access/1928363911.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+20%2C+2009&author=Penny+Schwartz
11.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/holidays
12.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/community/social-action
13.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/community/social-action
14.Jump up ^ http://www.cmsboston.org/Community-Partners.html
15.Jump up ^ http://www.kahalbraira.org/community/member-care
External links[edit]
Society for Humanistic Judaism
Answer.com Encyclopedia of Judaism
Kahal B'raira listing on SHJ Congregations page
Association of Humanistic Rabbis
Ignosticism
Kahal B’raira webpage
Kahal B'raira Sunday School
Kahal B'raira Social Action
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Moment (magazine)

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Moment

Moment, September/October 2011
 
Editor
Nadine Epstein
Managing Editor
Sarah Breger
Former editors
Leonard Fein
Hershel Shanks
Categories
Religion, Politics, Culture[1]
Frequency
Bi-monthly[1]
Circulation
65,000[1]
Publisher
Nadine Epstein
Founder
Elie Wiesel
Hershel Shanks
Year founded
May 1975
First issue
1975
Company
Center for Creative Change
Country
United States
Based in
Washington, D.C.[1]
Language
English
Website
momentmag.com
ISSN
0099-0280
OCLC number
610402552
Moment is an American independent, non-profit magazine. While the publication is a secular journal, material is targeted toward readership with interests related to Jewish culture. The magazine is a publishing project of the Washington D.C.-based Center for Creative Change. It is noted for being the largest independent Jewish magazine in America, with over 65,000 subscribers from the US, Canada, and Israel combined.

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  [hide] 1 History
2 Background
3 Programs
4 Notable article subjects
5 Honors and awards
6 References
History[edit]
Moment magazine was founded in 1975, by Elie Wiesel and Leonard Fein, who served as the magazine's first editor from 1975 to 1987. Hershel Shanks served as the editor from 1987 to 2004.[citation needed] The magazine was named in honor of an independent Yiddish-language newspaper, entitled Der Moment.[2][3][4] Founded in Warsaw in 1910, Der Moment remained in operation until the eve of Yom Kippur 1939, when the building housing the newspaper was destroyed by a German bomb. At the time, the publication was one of two Yiddish-language newspapers in the city.[1][5]
Background[edit]
Moment magazine is a secular, independent journal that publishes articles on Jewish culture, politics, and religion.[2] While the magazine is owned by the Center for Creative Change, it is not affiliated with any Jewish organization or religious movement, its editorial staff, writers, and articles represent a diverse range of political views.[1][3] As of 2004, Nadine Epstein is the editor and executive publisher.[citation needed]
Programs[edit]
Israel's Arab Citizens
Beginning in Moment's September/October 2009 issue, the special series "Israel's Arab Citizens" has examined aspects of the social, economic, and cultural life of the 1.5 million Arab citizens of the State of Israel. Nine installments are planned, of which three have been published.[needs update] The first installment, written by New York Times and Associated Press reporter Dina Kraft, profiled three generations of Arab Israeli women, titled "From Arab to Palestinian Israeli: One Family's Changing Identity".[citation needed]
The second, "Separate But Not Equal", which appeared in the September/October 2010 issue, examined the performance of Arab Israeli children in segregated public schools.[citation needed] "Separate But Not Equal" tied for first place in the Best Investigative News category of the Ethnic Media Awards, sponsored by the American University School of Communication and New America Media.[6][7]
The third, "The Arab Glass Ceiling", was published in the January/February 2011 issue.[citation needed]
The fourth and most recent installment, "Double Exposure", was published in the May/June 2012 issue.[citation needed][needs update]
Editor and executive publisher Nadine Epstein wrote of her motivation for initiating the series and the importance of focusing attention on the Arab Israelis in a letter from the editor:

Our lack of knowledge has serious consequences: I regularly meet Jews and non-Jews who view Israel's Arab citizens as, at best, suspect and at worst, terrorists. The reality is that this is a largely peaceful population—very few have been associated with terrorism—with a complex identity. They speak Hebrew, sometimes even better than Arabic, and many vote in Israeli elections. They support a Palestinian state, but their lives are in Israel and most have no intention or desire to leave. At the same time, they are often considered collaborators by some of their Arab brethren.[8]
Notable article subjects[edit]
Moment has published profiles of notable Jewish politicians, artists, and entrepreneurs, including:
Jeremy Ben-Ami[9]
Sergey Brin[10]
Mel Brooks[11]
Kirk Douglas[12]
Bob Dylan[13]
 Albert Einstein[14]
Judith Leiber[15]
Jon Stewart[16]
Anthony Weiner[17]
Howard Zinn[18]
 
Honors and awards[edit]
In 2011, Moment was presented with the Be'chol Lashon Media Award for Carl Hoffman's article entitled "Letter from the Philippines", which chronicles the history of the island's Jews and his rediscovery of Judaism as a foreigner living in Manila.[19]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Karesh, Sara E.; and Mitchell M. Hurvitz (2005). Encyclopedia of Judaism, Infobase Publishing, page 337. ISBN 978-0816069828
2.^ Jump up to: a b Howe, Irving (2010). Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe, Purdue University Press, page 27. ISBN 978-1557535511
3.^ Jump up to: a b Baskin, Judith R. (2011). The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, Cambridge University Press, page 472. ISBN 978-0521825979
4.Jump up ^ Shanks, Hershel (2010). Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls: And Other Adventures of an Archaeology Outsider, Continuum, page 118. ISBN 978-1441152176
5.Jump up ^ "YIVO | Moment, Der". Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
6.Jump up ^ Crowe, Adell (2011-02-17). "SOC Co-Hosts Ethnic Media Awards | American University School of Communication". American.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
7.Jump up ^ "Muslim Media Honored in Nation’s Capital". Azmuslimvoice.info. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
8.Jump up ^ Letter from the Editor, Nadine Epstein, September/October 2009 at the Wayback Machine (archived March 25, 2012)
9.Jump up ^ The Man on J Street: The Story of Jeremy Ben-Ami at the Wayback Machine (archived May 11, 2012)
10.Jump up ^ Malseed, Mark. "The Story of Sergey Brin | Moment Magazine". Momentmag.com. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
11.Jump up ^ Gorov, Lynda. "Mel Brooks: King of the Politically Incorrect | Moment Magazine". Momentmag.com. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
12.Jump up ^ A Leading Man’s Wisdom at the Wayback Machine (archived September 10, 2012)
13.Jump up ^ Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Spiritual Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived March 25, 2012)
14.Jump up ^ From the Editor, Nadine Epstein at the Wayback Machine (archived June 1, 2012)
15.Jump up ^ Yoshiko, Caitlin. "The Bag Lady Of Park Avenue | Moment Magazine". Momentmag.com. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
16.Jump up ^ Gillick, Jeremy. "Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka Jon Stewart) | Moment Magazine". Momentmag.com. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
17.Jump up ^ Berman, Daphna. "Live from New York, It’s Anthony Weiner | Moment Magazine". Momentmag.com. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
18.Jump up ^ A Moment with Howard Zinn at the Wayback Machine (archived May 11, 2012)
19.Jump up ^ 2010 Winners: Dr. Carl Hoffman, Tamás Wormser, Nicole Opper & Dr. Carolivia Herron at the Wayback Machine (archived March 24, 2012)



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Outlook (Jewish magazine)

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Outlook: Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine is an independent, secular Jewish periodical published six times a year and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 1962, as Canadian Jewish Outlook, an English supplement to the Yiddish newspaper The Vochenblatt, the publication has a "socialist-humanist" perspective; it receives support from the United Jewish Peoples Order though it is not formally affiliated with it. Outlook is the only Canadian publication devoted to yiddishkeit, Jewish ethical humanism and Israeli-Palestinian peace and justice issues.
The magazine adopted its current name in 1986. In 1988 The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology, a collection of articles, editorials and reviews carried in the magazine during its first twenty-five years was published with Henry Rosenthal and Cathy Berson as editors.[1]
It is currently edited in Vancouver by Carl Rosenberg and Sylvia Friedman.
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United Jewish People's Order

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The United Jewish People's Order is a secular socialist Jewish cultural, political and educational fraternal organization in Canada. The UJPO traces its history to 1926 and the founding of the Labour League. It was for many years associated with the Labor-Progressive Party, as the Communist Party of Canada was known.

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2 Affiliations
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Overview[edit]
The UJPO has branches in Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto where it operates the Winchevsky Centre, named after famed Jewish socialist Morris Winchevsky. The Toronto branch sponsors several groups including the Morris Winchevsky School (kindergarten to grade 7) which holds classes at the 918 Bathurst Street Communist Centre, the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir, and Camp Naivelt, an historically significant socialist Jewish camp. The Vancouver branch publishes the national progressive Jewish magazine Outlook as well as a number of cultural and educational activities.[1]
According to Professor Gerald Tulchinsky, the UJPO "embraced many Jews, not all of them necessarily committed Communists, who in varying degrees supported collectivist ideals and tried in interesting ways to emulate some of those values in their personal lives. Camp Naivelt (New World) in Brampton, which also stressed collectivist values and a spirit of internationalism, drew thousands of children over its 78-year existence —it's still going — while many UJPO members rented or owned modest cottages in a colony at Eldorado Park, where for a few weeks they lived a modified communal existence and socialized long into the summer evenings"[1]
The Jewish Folk Choir held well attended concerts, several of which included Paul Robeson, featuring Yiddish and Hebrew music. Another contribution to music made, indirectly, by the UJPO was the founding of the folk group The Travellers, which originated at Camp Naivelt in the 1950s.
Affiliations[edit]
Nationally, the UJPO is affiliated to the Canadian Peace Alliance, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations, and the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism.
In 2011, the United Jewish Appeal and Canadian Jewish Congress severed their relations with UJPO's Winchevsky Centre in Toronto after the organization hosted and co-sponsored an event featuring Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer, a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN). In a February 3 letter representatives of CJC and the UJA stated that they were severing their relations because the Centre provided "a platform for these views serves to strengthen those who work toward Israel’s destruction," by hosting the meeting.[2]
History[edit]
The UJPO evolved out of the Yiddish language Arbeiter Ring. In 1925 Communist and other radical members of the Ring were expelled and formed the Jewish Labour League Mutual Benefit Society (or Labour League) in Toronto and the Canadian Workers' Circle in Montreal and Winnipeg. In 1945 these organizations merged to form the UJPO.
At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, the UJPO had more than 2,500 members nation-wide with branches being established in Hamilton and Niagara Falls Ontario, and Calgary, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia, among others.
The UJPO was persecuted during the Cold War. On January 27, 1950, the group's Montreal headquarters was padlocked by police acting under the Quebec government's Padlock Law which permitted the forced closure of subversive organizations. The police carted away boxes of seized books, files and organizational material. In 1951, the UJPO was expelled from the Canadian Jewish Congress for opposing German rearmament despite being, at the time, the largest Jewish fraternal organization in Canada. The UJPO would not be readmitted into the Canadian Jewish Congress until 1995.[3]
The UJPO broke with the Communist Party (known at the time as the Labour-Progressive Party) during the party's crisis in 1956 after long-time UJPO and party stalwart J. B. Salsberg returned from a visit to the Soviet Union and reported his findings of anti-Semitism and suppression of Jewish culture.[1]
A resolution was passed at the UJPO's December 1956 congress stating:
For many years we accepted uncritically all developments in the Soviet Union. This was wrong. There were members who questioned the sudden disappearance of Jewish writers and cultural institutions. Their questioning was rejected and dismissed without justification. Developments and events in the Soviet Union, shall be examined and our attitude to them determined on the basis of full, free discussion in the organization[1]
The UJPO provided for its members "a social world outside the increasingly commodified life" according to Ester Reiter[4]
Originally groups of immigrant workers, the UJPO and its precursors provided mutual fraternal assistance, medical help and financial aid to its mostly working class membership as well as providing a "rich cultural and political milieu with shules (schools), choirs, mandolin orchestras and wind orchestras, sports groups, dance and theatre groups, lectures, symposia and panels on social and political events." [3]
In 1959 about one-third of the membership of UJPO left including long-time UJPO leader J.B. Salsberg, feeling that the organization was not critical enough of the Soviet Union, and started a new organization called the "New Fraternal Jewish Association".
The Toronto branch of the UJPO was located for many years at 83 Christie Street in Toronto alongside Christie Pits. In the years following World War II the Jewish community moved north along Bathurst Street and so did the UJPO which in 1960 moved to its current location at the Winchevsky Centre located in the Bathurst and Lawrence area.[2] The old Christie Street location is now occupied by the Ukrainian Cultural Centre of Toronto.
See also[edit]
Camp Naivelt - UJPO affiliated family camp
Morris Winchevsky School - a secular Jewish school affiliated with UJPO which offers weekend classes for children
Vochenblatt - Yiddish weekly associated with UJPO
Organization for Jewish Colonisation in the Soviet Union (IKOR)
Jewish People's Fraternal Order (US equivalent of UJPO)
Association of United Ukrainian Canadians
Federation of Russian Canadians
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Gerald Tulchinsky, Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the 'Jewish' Question, and Canadian Communism Labour/Le Travail, 56 (Fall 2005)
2.Jump up ^ "UJA, CJC sever ties with Winchevsky Centre", Canadian Jewish News, February 10, 2011
3.^ Jump up to: a b Ester Reiter & Roz Usiskin, Jewish Dissent in Canada: The United Jewish People's Order, Paper presented at the Forum on Jewish Dissent a conference of the Association of Canadian Jewish Studies (ACJS) in Winnipeg, May 30, 2004 and reprinted in Outlook
4.Jump up ^ Ester Reiter, "Secular Yiddishkait: Left Politics, Culture, and Community," Labour/Le Travail, 49 (Spring 2002), 121–146, 145.
External links[edit]
United Jewish People's Order website
The Winchevsky Centre - Toronto
Jewish Dissent in Canada: The United Jewish People's Order By Ester Reiter and Roz Usiskin
 

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Humanistic Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות הומניסטית‎ Yahdut Humanistit) (Yiddish: הומאַניסטישע ייִדישקייט) is a Jewish movement that offers a nontheistic alternative in contemporary Jewish life. It defines Judaism as the cultural and historical experience of the Jewish people and encourages humanistic and secular Jews to celebrate their Jewish identity by participating in Jewish holidays and lifecycle events (such as weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs) with inspirational ceremonies that draw upon but go beyond traditional literature.
Its philosophical foundation includes the following ideas:
A Jew is someone who identifies with the history, culture, and future of the Jewish people;
Judaism is the historic culture of the Jewish people, and religion is only one part of that culture;
Jewish identity is best preserved in a free, pluralistic environment;
People possess the power and responsibility to shape their own lives independent of supernatural authority;
Ethics and morality should serve human needs, and choices should be based upon consideration of the consequences of actions rather than pre-ordained rules or commandments;
Jewish history, like all history, is a human saga, a testament to the significance of human power and human responsibility. Biblical and other traditional texts are the products of human activity and are best understood through archaeology and other scientific analysis.
The freedom and dignity of the Jewish people must go hand in hand with the freedom and dignity of every human being.[1]

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2 Principles of belief and practice
3 Jewish identity and intermarriage
4 Egalitarianism
5 References
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Origins[edit]
In its current form, Humanistic Judaism was founded in 1963 by Rabbi Sherwin Wine.[2][3] As a rabbi trained in Reform Judaism, with a small secular, non-theistic congregation in Michigan, Wine developed a Jewish liturgy that reflected his, and his congregation’s philosophical viewpoint by emphasizing Jewish culture, history, and identity along with Humanistic ethics while excluding all prayers and references to God. This congregation developed into the Birmingham Temple, now in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It was soon joined by a previously Reform congregation in Illinois led by Rabbi Daniel Friedman, as well as a group in Westport, Connecticut.
In 1969, these congregations and others were united organizationally under the umbrella of the Society for Humanistic Judaism (SHJ). The Society for Humanistic Judaism has 10,000 members in 30 congregations spread throughout the United States and Canada.
The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism was founded in 1986. It is the academic and intellectual center of Humanistic Judaism. It was established in Jerusalem in 1985 and currently has two centers of activity: one in Jerusalem and the other in Lindolnshire, IL. Rabbi Adam chalom is the North American dean. The Institute offers professional training programs for Spokespersons, Educators, Leaders (also referred to in Hebrew as madrikhim/ot or in Yiddish as vegvayzer), and Rabbis, in addition to its publications, public seminars and colloquia for lay audiences.[4]
Principles of belief and practice[edit]
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Humanistic Judaism presents a far more radical departure from traditional Jewish religion than Mordecai Kaplan ever envisioned. Kaplan redefined God and other traditional religious terms so as to make them consistent with the materialist outlook, and continued to use traditional prayer language. Wine rejected this approach as confusing, since participants could ascribe to these words whatever definitions they favored.[5] Wine strove to achieve philosophical consistency and stability by creating rituals and ceremonies that were purely non-theistic. Services were created for Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and other Jewish holidays and festivals, often with reinterpretation of the meaning of the holiday to bring it into conformity with Secular Humanistic philosophy.[6]
Humanistic Judaism was developed as a possible solution to the problem of retaining Jewish identity and continuity among non-religious. Recognizing that congregational religious life was thriving, Wine believed that secular Jews who had rejected theism would be attracted to an organization that provided all the same forms and activities as, for example, Reform temples, but which expressed a purely Secular Humanistic viewpoint. The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, which is sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Judaism and the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations, trains rabbis and other leaders in the United States and in Israel. The Society for Humanistic Judaism was organized with the mission to mobilize people to celebrate Jewish identity and culture consistent with a humanistic philosophy of life.
Jewish identity and intermarriage[edit]
Within Humanistic Judaism, Jewish identity is largely a matter of self-identification.[7] Rabbis and other trained leaders officiate at intermarriages between Jews and non-Jews, and the Humanistic Judaism movement, unlike the Conservative and Orthodox Jewish denominations, does not take any position or action in opposition to intermarriage, rather it affirms that "Intermarriage is an American Jewish reality -- a natural consequence of a liberal society in which individuals have the freedom to marry whomever they wish...that intermarriage is neither good nor bad, just as we believe that the marriage of two Jews, in itself, is neither good nor bad. The moral worth of a marriage always depends on the quality of the human relationship -- on the degree of mutual love and respect that prevails."[8] Secular Humanistic rabbis and leaders will also co-officiate at intercultural marriages between Jews and non-Jews. These views concerning Jewish identity and intermarriage are criticized by those who believe that they will hasten the assimilation of Jews into the general society and thus adversely affect Jewish continuity.
Egalitarianism[edit]
Humanistic Judaism is egalitarian with respect to gender and gender identification, Jewish status, and sexual orientation. Baby-naming ceremonies, similar for boys and girls, are used rather than the brit milah. Those who identify as Jews and those who do not, as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members, may participate in all ways in all Humanistic Jewish rituals and leadership roles.
Humanistic Judaism ordains both men and women as rabbis, and its first rabbi was a woman, Tamara Kolton, who was ordained in 1999. [9] Its first cantor was also a woman, Deborah Davis, ordained in 2001; however, Humanistic Judaism has since stopped ordaining cantors.[10] The Society for Humanistic Judaism issued a statement in 1996 stating in part, "we affirm that a woman has the moral right and should have the continuing legal right to decide whether or not to terminate a pregnancy in accordance with her own ethical standards. Because a decision to terminate a pregnancy carries serious, irreversible consequences, it is one to be made with great care and with keen awareness of the complex psychological, emotional, and ethical implications." [11] They also issued a statement in 2011 condemning the then-recent passage of the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” by the U.S. House of Representatives, which they called "a direct attack on a woman’s right to choose". [12] In 2012 they issued a resolution opposing conscience clauses that allow religious-affiliated institutions to be exempt from generally applicable requirements mandating reproductive healthcare services to individuals or employees. [13] In 2013 they issued a resolution stating in part, "Therefore, be it resolved that: The Society for Humanistic Judaism wholeheartedly supports the observance of Women's Equality Day on August 26 to commemorate the anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowing women to vote; The Society condemns gender discrimination in all its forms, including restriction of rights, limited access to education, violence, and subjugation; and The Society commits itself to maintain vigilance and speak out in the fight to bring gender equality to our generation and to the generations that follow." [14]
In 2004 the Society for Humanistic Judaism issued a resolution supporting "the legal recognition of marriage and divorce between adults of the same sex," and affirming " the value of marriage between any two committed adults with the sense of obligations, responsibilities, and consequences thereof."[15] In 2010 they pledged to speak out against homophobic bullying. [16]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "What is Humanistic Judaism?" The Society for Humanistic Judaism.
2.Jump up ^ "International Federation for Secular & Humanistic Judaism". Retrieved 2010-12-16.
3.Jump up ^ Hevesi, Dennis (July 25, 2007). "Sherwin Wine, 79, Founder of Splinter Judaism Group, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
4.Jump up ^ "Home | International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism". Iishj.org. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
5.Jump up ^ Wine, Sherwin (1985). Judaism Beyond God. Society for Humanistic Judaism. ISBN 978-0912645087.
6.Jump up ^ Rosenfeld, Max (1997). Festivals, folklore & philosophy: A secularist revisits Jewish traditions. Sholom Aleichem Club. ISBN 978-0961087029.
7.Jump up ^ http://www.humanisticrabbis.org/conversion/ "We believe: 1. That Jewish identity is primarily a cultural and ethnic identity. 2. That belief systems are too diverse among Jews to serve as criteria for membership. 3. That joining the Jewish community is a process of cultural identification. 4. That a person who seeks to embrace Jewish identity should be encouraged to do so and should be assisted in this endeavor.
8.Jump up ^ "Statement on Intermarriage". Association of Humanistic Rabbis, 1974.
9.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism - Rabbis and Leadership". Shj.org. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
10.Jump up ^ "Contributions of Jewish Women to Music and Women to Jewish Music". JMWC. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
11.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism - Reproductive Choice Abortion". Shj.org. 1996-08-28. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
12.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism Condemns Limit on Choice". Shj.org. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
13.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism Opposes Conscience Clauses". Shj.org. 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
14.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism - Gender Equality". Shj.org. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
15.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism - Same Sex Marriage". Shj.org. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
16.Jump up ^ "Society for Humanistic Judaism Pledge Against Homophobic Bullying". Shj.org. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
External links[edit]
Society for Humanistic Judaism
International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism
Association of Humanistic Rabbis
BBC - Religions - Judaism: Humanistic Judaism
International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews
Leadership Conference of Secular and Humanistic Jews
Israel program of International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

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