Can you be a Jewish atheist? It depends on who you ask. At the same time, communities for nontheists have been a hot topic as of late, garnering headlines throughout 2013. (It was one of my top ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, the founder of Humanistic Judaism who was killed in an auto accident, aimed to provide a home for those who felt bound to their Jewish identity and culture but rejected the idea of ...

The third annual Secular Humanist Jewish Circle High Holiday "Celebration of Community and Connection" will be Sept. 22 and include traditional Jewish themes related to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, ...

This form of Judaism doesn’t worship a God. It’s called Humanistic Judaism, and it was founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine in the Detroit area in 1963. The Judaism practice, which is grounded on solidarity, ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, the founder of Humanistic Judaism who was known as “The rabbi who doesn’t believe in God,” died last week in a car accident in Morocco. Rabbi Wine was killed when the taxi in which ...

In 1965, Time magazine labeled the late Rabbi Sherwin Wine “The Atheist Rabbi.” Wine was the founder of the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills, and of the Secular Humanistic Jewish movement. Since ...

The Secular Humanist Jewish Circle, a new Tucson group organized to celebrate Jewish culture and identity, is planning its first public event - an observance on Sept. 11 of the Jewish holidays of Rosh ...

“Blessed is the light in the world. Blessed is the light in people. Blessed is the light of Shabbat.” (Humanistic Sabbath blessing) Light plays an important role in religion. In the Abrahamic faiths ...

LANCASTER – The effects of modernity and the Holocaust on Jewish thinking will be explored by Rabbi Eva Goldfinger when she presents “Humanistic Judaism: A Scientific and Historical Perspective on the ...

Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, who entered public life as “the Atheist Rabbi” more than 40 years ago when he founded Humanistic Judaism, a movement that celebrates Jewish history and culture without invoking ...

Amy Goldin’s parents believed that “religion is the opiate of the masses.” As an adult, she didn’t think much about religion until pregnancy led to a sudden and unexpected yearning for her newborn son ...