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Authentic Self and the Assimilated Jew, Part 3: Secular/Assimilated Jew?
Judaism isn’t just a religion.
Many Jews, religious and secular Jews alike,
feel a Jewish peoplehood connection,
or a cultural connection with Jewish tradition,
even if they don’t connect with the religious obligation element.
We are regularly asked whether not every Jew follows the Law.
Many people claim that Judaism is at its essence a religion, a set of beliefs about the world
To this, we are always sad to report that there are quite a few secular Jews. Jews who, like many Christians, do not really believe in God and others who have renounced any belief in a divine being. there are spread allover the world many who feel a connection to their Jewish identity even when not believing in the Elohim Hashem Jehovah God.
But we should also be aware that among Jews there are also quite a few who believe in the One and Only True God of Israel and who do not approve of all that is happening in present-day Israel.
Several Jews and Jeshuaists are therefore trying to spend their days outside Israel for the Most High and to express their faith in a dignified way, even if it is not always according to people’s expectations. But they realise that impression to their God is more important than impression to people.
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To remember
- “Assimilated Jew” in the title of this series because “Authentic Self and the Assimilated Jew” had a nice aesthetically-pleasing alliteration to it.
- assimilated = giving up part of your identity/culture/observance to become part of an outside majority community.
- Judaism significant impact on life
- imperfect/non-observance of commandment =/= reflection of a belief that G-d does not exist
- price of keeping keeping commandments = more than willing to pay at present
- lot of life choices based on Jewish observance => no secular Jew
- connect to Jewish cultural tradition as much as one might think
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Preceding
Jew refering to be religious or to be a people
This fighting world, Zionism and Israel #1
This fighting world, Zionism and Israel #5
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Additional reading
- 2015-2016 Religion
- A Quarter of Europeans are Still Antisemites
- Anti-Semitic pressure driving Jews out of Europe
- A Gentile and the Mosaic Law
- Hatikvah – the official anthem of Israel
- As there is a lot of division in Christendom there is too in Judaism
- Judaism and Jeshuaism a religion of the future
- A celebration of harvest, and of thanksgiving for the provision God has given
- What Jeshuaists believe
- Policy Statement of the Jeshuaist community
- Noahide Laws or Seven commandments incumbent upon all of humankind
- Jewish People Inventors of Hope
- Does God really care?
- Vital importance of reading and following the Kitvei Hakodesh
- Changes in the Remnant of Jewish Believers
- Also Goyim or Non-Jews in the Jeshuaist movement
- A misunderstanding about Messianic Judaism
- Difference between Messianic Judaism, Jeshuaism, Christianity and Christendom
- Jeshuaists, Messianic Jews, Messianics and Christians
- Who or What is a Jeshuaist
- Focus On Your Unique Path
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Related
- The Jewish Experience by Gilad Altzon
- What Kind of Jew are You?
- “But Judaism is a Religion!”
- Jewish Oppression and Crimes Against Humanity
- Anti-Semitism: Jewish mythology and lies
- Reality Check: Jewish Oppression and Crimes Against Humanity
- Semitic Semantics
- Gene Wilder (1933-2016) feeling Jewish
- A Reflection for Purim
- Bible Stories for Atheist Babysitters
I put “Assimilated Jew” in the title of this series because “Authentic Self and the Assimilated Jew” had a nice aesthetically-pleasing alliteration to it. But honestly, I don’t self-identify as a secular Jew or as an assimilated Jew.
Secular?
I don’t consider myself secular because in spite of my imperfect or non-observance of commandments, Judaism still has a significant impact on my life. I believe in G-d. My imperfect/non-observance of commandment is not a reflection of a belief that G-d does not exist. I think G-d exists, and while I do not know what I believe with respect to divine reward and punishment, I believe G-d prefers that I keep the commandments. The reason I don’t keep commandments is because the price of keeping them is more than I am willing to pay at present, come what may.
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Susan Katz Miller is the author of The Interfaith Family Journal and Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family. Her original surveys of multiple religious practitioners in US interfaith families are often cited in the academic literature. A former correspondent for Newsweek and New Scientist, she has spoken on interfaith families at The Parliament of the World’s Religions, the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, The Wild Goose Festival, and many other venues. Find her at susankatzmiller.com or on twitter @susankatzmiller.
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In Judaism and Jeshuaism there have always been two opposite views on interfaith relationships. All groups know having a partnership with someone of another religious system or with a non-religious person makes life more difficult.
Those who are not so against intermarriage and would allow such contacts with people of other religious groups, do believe it can enrich both partners and families.The way people feel about Israel have so much to do with interfaith. Also groups that are keen to be not mixed can take an adverse opinion of Zionists. Look for example to some Haredim.
That the non-Orthodox Jewish world in America now have extended interfaith families, and that they are taking the demographic lead, does not mean that would be to according to the mitzvot. What the opinion might be we always should remember that it is the Elohim Who touches and knows the heart and Who shall be the most righteous Judge.
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Preceding
Intermarriage and Protecting the state of the Jewish and/or Jeshuaist family
Welcoming Interfaith Families, Maintaining Tradition – Eqev 5781
More on Pew’s Jewish Americans in 2020
For generations, interfaith families who felt excluded, misunderstood, or disrespected by Jewish clergy or institutions, have found other homes. Some gravitated to Unitarian-Universalism, which draws on many religions. Some added Buddhism, or Sufism, or Paganism, to their spiritual practice. And for more than a quarter of a century now, interfaith families have been building their own dual-practice communities in which to honor both Judaism and Christianity.
But very few of these people with complex religious practices (and I have studied hundreds of them) stopped practicing Judaism altogether, or stopped calling themselves Jews.
The irony is that Jews who did stop practicing Judaism altogether are considered Jewish in the new Pew study of Jewish Americans in 2020, as long as they don’t claim a second religion. But if you claim two religions, you forfeit your right to have Pew consider you part of the…
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Intermarriage and Protecting the state of the Jewish and/or Jeshuaist family
Since childhood, we are taught ideal philosophies like we all are equal, one God, gender equality, secularism, brotherhood, etc. Moral books are full of such teachings. But when we grow up and get to know someone else whom we would like to take as a partner to go together through life it all becomes different, suddenly religion, culture, skin colour, genetic makeup, or country of origin matter a lot. In this article, we look at the result of an American survey and the way different Jewish branches handle the way of life and marriage of their people.
Jeshuaisten / Jeshuaists 