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March 2011

March 04, 2011

South Floridians Are Invited To Discover Humanistic Judaism

For those of you in South Florida, I’d like to invite you to a special...

March 01, 2011

Another Jewish Journey To Secular Humanism

Matthew Lowe, a young Jewish educator, has a very personal story on The New Humanism...

February 2011

February 16, 2011

Secular Israeli Ordination Gets Some Media Play

I just saw this article about the ordination of the latest secular humanistic rabbis in...

February 16, 2011

Good Pointers For Advancing The Non-Theistic Message

I’m not the type to give tips to my fellow non-theists and secular humanists. We...

February 15, 2011

Not Quite Wrestling With God

Last night I participated in a program for a local Reform temple’s youth group called...

February 10, 2011

Post-Theistic Religion©

Another non-theistic reinterpretation of religion has been published by a fellow named Bo Bennett. According...

January 2011

January 12, 2011

Can Reform Judaism Be Made More Relevant?

In last week’s Forward, Rabbi Evan Moffic offered some thoughts about how to make Reform...

January 04, 2011

When Rituals Become Dangerous

Yesterday’s revelation that hundreds of people were exposed to Hepatitis A after taking communion at...

December 2010

December 29, 2010

A Non-Theistic Jewish Funeral

So I just conducted a funeral. God wasn’t invited and nobody even noticed. I’ve only...

December 14, 2010

Spreading The Word

My ad is up at The Friendly Atheist, one of the best freethinker sites on...

November 2010

November 23, 2010

Circumcision…Yeah, I’m Opposed To It

I’ve yet to write the post about circumcision that I’ve been toying with. Meanwhile, OTD...

November 06, 2010

Humanistic Judaism Growing In England

I received a very nice comment from a humanistic Jew named Paul in England and...

November 04, 2010

Reaching Out To Young Secular Jews

Via The Friendly Atheist, good news from campus: The number of secular student organizations on...

November 03, 2010

A New Era In Israeli Civil Rights? Hardly

In what would appear at first blush to be a major move forward for civil...

October 2010

October 18, 2010

Morality, Apes, And Religion

Frans de Waal is a primatologist who has written about the moral instincts in our...

October 17, 2010

Rabbi Adam Chalom Brings It!

If you were only to judge Secular Humanistic Judaism by my blog entries, you would...

October 11, 2010

New Online Resource Guide To Atheists, Humanists And Other Non-Theists

There is a fantastic new resource available online to help people understand the non-theistic community...

October 09, 2010

On Hiding My Point Of View: A Question For My Readers

Yesterday, over a chocolate break with co-worker friends, I talked a little about my blog. ...

October 02, 2010

Some Simchat Torah Heresy

Today I celebrated Simchat Torah by putting the finishing touches on a journal article surveying...

October 01, 2010

Rabbi Chalom Is On The Air

This is a very short post just to pass on this wonderful link. Rabbi Adam...

September 2010

September 28, 2010

It’s Not Me, It Really Is Them

The beginning of the end of my efforts to remain in the theistic fold came...

September 17, 2010

Yom Kippur For Secular Humanists

Tonight is Yom Kippur and I’ll be with Congregation Beth Adam in Boca Raton where...

September 14, 2010

Why I Write And For Whom

Why do I write and why did I start this blog? Let me say at...

September 10, 2010

Rosh Hashanah at Congregation Beth Adam, Boca Raton

Here is my talk from Thursday morning: Last night I was thrilled to have the...

September 10, 2010

Erev Rosh Hashanah at Congregation Beth Adam, Boca Raton

Here's my speech from Erev Rosh Hashanah: Just a few short years ago, I stood...