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Ads by Google      Zionism, Nationalism, and Morality First, Jewish nationalism is unacceptable because Jews are not a “people”; that is, there is no distinctly “Jewish” culture or way of life, or—a more moderate claim—there is no Jewish culture sufficiently distinct to justify national self-determination. The first criticism of Jewish nationalism is that it sanctions the wrong kind of partialism because it is a nationalism which favors a particular culture. Their relation to what they regard as a holy city is dramatically different from that of people living in secular Tel Aviv. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~elias/zionism.final.htm      Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his "Culture War" in Israel by Omar Kamil It appears that the role of Rabbi Yosef in Israeli society can be explained in the framework of an Israeli culture war in which he battles against the Ashkenazic establishment, both religious and secular, to gain hegemony for a Jewish cultural identity based on the Sephardi minhag. His goal is to change Israeli culture and ideology, as well as Jewish religious practices, in a number of ways. Apparently, the goal of rabbi Yosef's culture war is to bring the Israeli public, both religious and secular, to recognize Sephardi culture as a new ideology and social order in Israel. http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/shas_culture_war.html      Jew - encyclopedia article about Jew. Jews and Judaism Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society. Israel, the Jewish nation-state, is the only country in which Jews make up a majority of the citizens, although the United States has a larger number of Jews. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jew   (6654 words)      Jew - encyclopedia article about Jew. Jews and Judaism Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society. Jewish religion Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jew   (6654 words)      PhpWiki - Understanding Zionism This change was due in part to Jewish immigration from the Muslim world, where secular influence is much weaker than in Europe, and in part to immigration of Hasidic Jews from Eastern Europe after the Holocaust. State support of the Jewish religion in Israel should be confined to observance of the Jewish holidays, which are the common property of the entire Jewish people and symbolize our history and culture. Even earlier, Jewish Messianic movements in the Arab world, centered in the large Jewish community of Iraq, had launched a number of unsuccessful attempts to return en masse to the land of Israel. http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/UnderstandingZionism   (3683 words)      S F J F F Online Guide to Jewish Film - The SFJFF in the USSR I relate to secular Jewish culture, Jewish art, Jewish humor, Jewish psychology. The Festival - the first public celebration of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union in 65 years - was allowed to proceed after several tense weeks of contentious negotiations with Soviet authorities, who finally granted permission only 48 hours before the FestivalÂ’s opening event. I had to come.” Kaufman founded the festival in Berkeley in 1981 to give “unaffiliated Jews,” as she called them, a cultural rallying point. http://www.sfjff.org/guide/moscow.html   (3683 words)      Dove's Eye View: Culture Corey Fischer, one of the founders of Traveling Jewish Theatre, commanded the stage in his various incarnations as bedraggled Israeli war hero junkie, TV dialogue group emcee, and even a balloon seller in the souk. The modern day update of one of the English bard's most effective and brutal tragedies will be based on Saddam Hussein's journey to power and his early days as a secular Arab hero before he murdered his way through the Ba'ath party of Iraq. The play, which debuted at the respected Cameri Theatre last week, is the creation of its cast, a mix of Israeli Arab and Jewish actors who drew on real life scenes from the conflict, including some from their personal experiences. http://bedouina.typepad.com/doves_eye/culture   (3683 words)      Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations is dedicated to the study and preservation of Jewish history and culture. Jewish Family and Life is a web magazine for Jewish parents that reflects the strong family traditions of Jewish culture in the language of the 90's. The Center For Jewish History in New York City is headquarters for organizations including the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html   (3683 words)      JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning This was a period of unprecedented cultural activity, and the Jewish scholars, poets, physicians, and codifiers, who at the same time cultivated secular disciplines and languages, are significant more for their number than for individual excellence. Despite examples of assimilation, most Jews of Italy never became estranged from their Jewish intellectual and religious heritage. Toward the end of the 13th century and beginning of the 14th the Jews in Italy focused on becoming money lenders and small-scale bankers. http://www.jewishgates.com/file.asp?File_ID=88   (666 words)      Israel Culture Most Jewish Israelis play it both ways, leading a largely secular life but still taking part in the occasional religious ceremony. Until recently, Israel's culture has been predominantly religious, be it Jewish, Christian or Muslim. Klezmer, the knees-up violin-based Yiddish folk music, is hugely popular in Israel and has spread its tentacles to Jewish communities around the world. http://www.traveldocs.com/il/culture.htm   (326 words)      General Jewish Labor Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Bund was internationalist in its socialist orientation, focusing on culture, not a state or a place, as the glue of Jewish "nationalism." In this they borrowed extensively from the Austro-Marxist school, further alienating the Bolsheviks and Lenin. The Bund was a secular socialist party, opposed to what they saw as the reactionary nature of traditional Jewish life in Russia. The rump was to join with the United Jewish Socialist Party in forming the Jewish Communist Bund or Kombund which in turn joined the Communist Party dissolved into the Communist Party in 1921. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Jewish_Labor_Union   (988 words)      j. - Stalin’s ‘Jewish homeland’ lives on in Russia’s Far East The ribbon-cutting ceremony at the two-story Moorish-style synagogue in Birobidzhan Sept. 10 was the highlight of a weeklong celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Jewish Autonomous Region, an area in Russia’s Far East that Stalin declared a secular Jewish homeland in 1934 to divert Soviet Jews from pre-state Israel. Yiddish and Jewish culture and traditions are taught as part of the curriculum in one of the city’s public schools, which any child may attend. Jewish Agency figures place the current number at 2,000, although local Jewish community officials insist it is closer to 6,000. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23647/format/html/displaystory.html   (988 words)      Fidelio Article - Schiller Institute-Moses Mendelssohn and the Bach Tradition- S. Meyer- Fidelio Magazine Thus, the Jewish minority was brought to play an extraordinary role in the development of German culture and the German nation in the Nineteenth century. Zunz became the most prominent Jewish historian of the period, devoting himself to the research of Jewish literature, as well as Jewish contributions to the natural sciences and the development of technology, on which he wrote extensively. He was outspoken for Jewish emancipation, unlike other "protected" Berlin Jews, who thought that a public fight over Jewish rights would only lead to a dimunition of their privileged status. http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/992_mend_spm.html   (11199 words)      Secular Jewish culture - Literary and theatrical expressions of secular Jewish culture may be in specifically Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish or Ladino, or it may be in the language of the surrounding cultures, such as English or German. Also, the strong Jewish tradition of religious scholarship often left Jews well prepared for secular scholarship, although in some times and places this was countered by Jews being banned from studying at universities, or admitted only in limited numbers (see Jewish quota). Jewish musical contributions also tend to reflect the cultures of the countries in which Jews live, the most notable examples being classical and popular music in the United States and Europe. http://www.psychcentral.com/psypsych/Secular_Jewish_culture   (6714 words)      Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations is dedicated to the study and preservation of Jewish history and culture. Jewish Family and Life is a web magazine for Jewish parents that reflects the strong family traditions of Jewish culture in the language of the 90's. The Center For Jewish History in New York City is headquarters for organizations including the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html   (6714 words)      A Nation of 'Fourth Sons': How do you educate Jews who don't even know how to ask a question? Living in a secular world where we are a tiny minority swimming in a sea of non-Jewish popular culture, it takes a nonstop conscious effort to ensure that Moriah knows who she is and what that means. And that's what we've reaped as American baby-boomers have come to maturity as perhaps the most accomplished generation in Jewish history in terms of secular knowledge, while simultaneously achieving the distinction of being the most Jewishly illiterate. We've earned that title with growing rates of disaffiliation and dropping rates of concern for Israel, Jewish observance and donating to Jewish philanthropies. http://jewishworldreview.com/0405/tobin_2005_04_21.php3   (1205 words)      RABBI OVADIA YOSEF AND HIS CULTURE WAR IN ISRAEL Apparently, the goal of rabbi Yosef's culture war is to bring the Israeli public, both religious and secular, to recognize Sephardi culture as a new ideology and social order in Israel. The goal was "to create a new autonomous and genuine Israeli culture, which is implicitly counterpoised to the discredited 'exile mentality' putatively characterizing Jewish groups before immigration to Israel."(13) Furthermore, the state viewed the traditional culture of the Sephardim as hindering their integration into the Western-style modern democratic society that was emerging. Upon arrival in Israel, the traditional culture of the Sephardim was looked down on because the dominant Israeli ideology put a strong emphasis on the Negation of Exile (shelilat hagalut), the Israeli version of the melting pot. http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2000/issue4/jv4n4a3.html   (3715 words)      Khazaria.com's Selected Jewish Links As the result of this viewpoint, in the first decades of the State, secular Israeli Jews virtually eliminated from the curriculum the study of post-Destruction diaspora Jewish history and culture. The great historian of Judaism, Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron, sought to correct this attitude, which he labelled 'the lachrymose view of Jewish history.' Most medieval Jews in most places in most years were not the targets of pogroms. Federation of Jewish Communities of the C.I.S. The Rabbinical Alliance of the C.I.S. Rossiyskiy Yevreyskiy Kongress (Russian Jewish Congress) http://www.khazaria.com/jewishlinks.html   (2149 words)      Students Testimonials - WUJS - Institute Arad Israel I didn't know anything about Jewish spirituality or religion, had virtually no connection with Jewish culture, and certainly had no knowledge of the Hebrew language. The WUJS (World Union of Jewish Students) program, of which the Arts Project is a part, helped tremendously in deepening my sense of Jewishness and my connection to Israel. WUJS educates you on different sides and perspectives of all the issues I was concerned about: Israeli and Jewish history, religious practice, Jewish text, political issues, Israel and Diaspora relations, etc. In addition to the classroom learning, we also had a weekly seminar somewhere in the country. http://www.wujs-arad.org/testimonies.htm   (8657 words)      MootStormfront.org - Scholarship as an Exercise in Rhetorical Strategy: A Case Study of Kevin MacDonald.. All of these "may therefore be conceptualized as secular versions of historical Jewish groups not only because of the high levels of Jewish identity characteristics of group members, but also because these groups retained the essential characteristics of Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy." [MacDonald, The Culture of Critique, p. Jewish activists had an "ethnopolitical vision" in which Jewish secular culture would continue in Poland with the cooperation and approval of the government (Schatz, 1991, 230). Although in the introductory chapter of The Culture of Critique MacDonald claims that "[t]here is no implication here of a unified Jewish 'conspiracy' to undermine gentile culture, as portrayed in the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion," [MacDonald, The Culture of Critique, p. http://mootstormfront.org/forum/printthread.php?t=434   (8657 words)      Humanistic Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Humanistic Judaism was developed as a possible solution to the problem of retaining Jewish identity and continuity among non-religious, secular North American Jews at a time when other organizational forms of secular Jewish identity were fading, including Jewish cultural nationalism, Yiddishism, and various forms of Zionism. As a rabbi trained in Reform Judaism, with a small secular, non-theistic congregation in Michigan, Wine developed a Jewish liturgy that reflected his, and his congregation’s, philosophical viewpoint by emphasizing Jewish culture, history, and identity along with Humanistic ethics while excluding all prayers and references to a supernatural god. Judaism In A Secular Age - An Anthology of Secular Humanistic Jewish Thought, Edited by: Renee Kogel and Zev Katz, KTAV Publishing House and International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, 1995. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_Judaism   (1001 words)      [No title] Secular Jewish practice sees change as a good and positive thing and it accepts all men and women as equal no matter what their culture or country. Secular Jewish practice is evident throughout Israeli law, in Israeli schools, and in Israeli culture. While secular Jewish culture considers it important to establish criteria for admission into Jewish society, it rejects the notion that people who wish to live a secular Jewish life should be obliged to participate in Orthodox conversion. http://www.tekes.co.il/English-Halacha.html   (1938 words)      Secular Jewish culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Literary and theatrical expressions of secular Jewish culture may be in specifically Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish or Ladino, or it may be in the language of the surrounding cultures, such as English or German. Secular Jewish culture embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in cultural areas not generally considered to be connected to religion. Secular literature and theater in Yiddish largely began in the 19th century and was in decline by the middle of the 20th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Jewish_culture   (7368 words)      MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Overview: Secular Jewish Music After a time, though, the Jewish intelligentsia came to see Jewish musical culture as distinct from that of the non-Jews; intellectuals such as Mendele Mokher Seforim cultivated a Yiddish literature, and Abraham Goldfaden composed operettas using themes of Jewish history and Zionism to appeal to the political sensibilities of his co-religionists. Our knowledge of secular Jewish music through the generations is necessarily limited, since it has been transmitted primarily via oral tradition, much of which we presume has been lost. The category of secular Jewish music is as elusive as it is important. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/Music/Secular_Jewish_Music.htm   (709 words)      Secular Jewish culture - Psychology Central For example, religiously observant Orthodox Jews who write literature and music or produce films with non-religious themes are participating in secular Jewish culture, even if they are not secular themselves. One explanation of the affinity of Jewish composers and playwrights to the musical is that "traditional Jewish religious music was most often led by a single singer, a cantor while Christians emphasize 'choral' singing." Jacob Baron, Jewish Composers, Machar, The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, June 2, 2005. However, Judaism guides its adherents in both practice and belief, and has been called not only a religion, but also a "way of life," which makes it difficult to draw a clear distinction between Judaism and Jewish culture. http://www.psychcentral.com/psypsych/Secular_Jewish_culture   (6987 words)      culture food jewish Secular Jewish culture Jews and Judaism Jewish religion Etymology of "Jew"... Secular Jewish culture - definition of Secular Jewish culture in... culture and cuisine borrowed from and contributed to the culture and... http://www.jewish-search.com/keywords/culture+food+jewish_1.html   (4330 words)      International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews Secular Humanistic Jews have a strong connection to Jewish history and culture and are committed to the future of the Jewish People. The educational programs teach children to be proud of their Jewish heritage - to value its unique culture and to participate in its rich traditions in a way that is compatible with their parentsÂ’ secular beliefs. Secular Humanistic Jews believe that Jewish history is a human saga, a testament to the significance of human power and responsibility. http://www.ifshj.org/continuity.html   (4330 words)      DePauw University : Jewish Studies Jewish Studies, then, addresses both the particularity of Jewish experience(s)–across time and space–and the general connections that this range of experience has with other cultures. Jewish Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the Jewish experience: the history, culture, religion, and philosophy of Judaism and Jewish peoples. There are two strands that are central to Jewish Studies: one is the study of Jewish intellectual life in both its religious and secular aspects: the other is the study of Jewish identity, again both religious and secular. http://www.depauw.edu/acad/jewish   (4330 words)      DePauw University : Jewish Studies Jewish Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the Jewish experience: the history, culture, religion, and philosophy of Judaism and Jewish peoples. There are two strands that are central to Jewish Studies: one is the study of Jewish intellectual life in both its religious and secular aspects: the other is the study of Jewish identity, again both religious and secular. At least two courses, in addition to the required course in Judaism, should be CORE COURSES, devoted exclusively to the study of Jewish texts, history, culture, religion, philosophy, literature, identity, or relations between Jews or Judaism and other peoples or cultures. http://www.depauw.edu/acad/jewish   (830 words)      Web Resources for Jewish Music--Announcement Archive 2001 The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture presents the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir in its Annual Spring Concert at 2:30 p.m. Gala opening concert of the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture Representation of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee JOINT in the Republic of Uzbekistan, Association of Jewish Community of Uzbekistan, some different organizations and persons were this audio-album's initiators. http://www.jmwc.org/announcement_archive/announcement_archive_2001.html   (2481 words)

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