cultural Judaism

America's New Jewish Secularism Barry A. Kosmin, Ariela Keysar, Washington Post. A new book says that American Jews, free of previous generations’ pressure to assimilate, are producing a vibrant secular Jewish culture whose continued growth "seems assured."

Cut-Flower Ethics and Jewish Culture David Wolpe, Weekly Standard. Amos Oz might imagine there is a large coterie of “atheists of the book,” waiting to be swept up in the vast sea of Jewish literature.  But is this actually the case?  

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Gil Student, Torah Musings. Asimov’s Foundation novels are not Jewish—but one rabbi sees them as an “oasis of right-thinking in a barbaric world,” a “metaphor for the Jewish people in exile."