This is a guest post by Ziyi Guan who has chosen to adopt Judaism. Ziyi is a 20-year-old college student living in South Carolina, and studying Biology. She is of Chinese heritage and speaks the Chinese language. She also feels […]
Archive: March 2023
Ten Modern Plagues That Threaten America’s Separation of Religion and Government Adapted from a handout sent to SHJ members from Jews for a Secular Democracy Click here to download the PDF version. Passover is about freedom! America is supposed to be […]
Rabbi Jeffrey Falick from Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit gets us ready for Passover! This gathering took place on Apr. 16, 2016 at the Birmingham Temple, Farmington Hills, Michigan. “Passover!” The (Secular Humanistic) Rebbe’s Tisch with Rabbi Jeffrey […]
This is a guest article by Barbara Martinsons, a member of the SHJ affiliate, Secular Jewish Circle in Tucson, Arizona. Barbara reflects on the different aspects of being a woman (and a Jewish woman) at various life stages. This is […]
This article is written by James Ryn McDevitt-Phelps, an independent SHJ member. I first learned about Judaism when I was around five years old and I was questioning the implausible things I had been told by my grandmother’s church when […]
In honor of Women’s History Month (recognized annually during the month of March), we are spotlighting Jewish women from the past and present! This article was published in the Summer 2022 Issue of Humanistic Judaism Magazine. It was written by Rabbi Jodi Kornfeld, […]
In honor of Women’s History Month (recognized annually during the month of March), we are spotlighting Jewish women from the past and present! This writing is an excerpt from Here Is Our Light and is written by SHJ Rabbi, Miriam Jerris. CUP OF MIRIAM The […]
In honor of Women’s History Month (recognized annually during the month of March), we are spotlighting Jewish women from the past and present! Grace Paley was the 2018–2019 SHJ Humanistic Jewish Role Model. This article was published in the Summer 2019 Issue of […]
Esther, the hero of the story we read on the Jewish holiday of Purim, saved the Jewish people by revealing her Jewish identity to her husband, King Ahasuerus, despite the risks it posed to her own safety. Her “unmasking” led […]