A Godless Judaism Isn’t the Answer

The American Jewish community should not invest its precious resources in aggressively secular Jewish programs; the vociferous exclusion of Judaism’s religious dimension is a recipe for disaster.

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
Eric H. Yoffie
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There is a whole lot of silliness going around about the , but the silliest idea of all is this: Since more and more Jews (22 percent in total) say that they have no religion, the key to Jewish survival is to devise a Judaism that dispenses with religion. In this way of thinking, “Jewish secularism,” now taking on new forms, will draw disaffected young Jews into the Jewish community and save them for the Jewish people.

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