Secular Judaism
Berl Katznelson’s defense of the Jewish calendar.
One of the 20th century’s greatest Jewish historians reflects on the Jewish predicament.
Ethical Culture’s new problems, and its old ones.
A video interview.
A Jewish intellectual and a rabbi discuss the future of diaspora Jewry, the possibilities of secular Jewish culture, and the ways in which Israel has. . .
An exchange between the foremost philanthropic supporter of secular Jewish culture and the analyst of its decline.
Non-Orthodox Jews know whom they look down on: namely, their Orthodox and especially their ultra-Orthodox brethren. Too many know little else.
Let me say it again: Jewish secular culture is too thin and open to support a real collective identity. So now what?
James Loeffler’s essay, “The Death of Jewish Culture,” is a compelling tour de force, which is to say that it says something important and says it with style but also that, in the swoop and slash of its argument, it leaves out a fair amount.