Excerpted from Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices

Excerpted from Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices

Reprinted with permission from The Jewish Publication Society (pp. 3-9)  
Copyright 2025 THROUGHOUT JEWISH HISTORY, many Jews have questioned specific Jewish religious beliefs. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Jews became more secularized through the Haskalah (Enlightenment) and experiences of emancipation and integration in Europe and America. Sometimes ideological secularists—particularly early twentieth-century Zionists working for […]