The most successful secular movement in Jewish history was Zionism. It created a Jewish state, revived Hebrew as a modern secular language, and created a culture that celebrated human-centered values such as human effort and self-defense. For all of the challenges of the modern state of Israel, Zionism’s assertion that to be Jewish is to be part of the Jewish people is ours as well.
This is the twelfth session of a year-long adult learning course of "Philosophy of Secular Humanistic Judaism" offered by Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (www.iishj.org) and Rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation (www.kolhadash.com). For the complete playlist for this adult learning series, visit [ Ссылка ].
This course is based on the adult learning curriculum "Introduction to Secular Humanistic Judaism" which you can explore at [ Ссылка ]. The two textbooks for the class are "Basic Ideas of Secular Humanistic Judaism" [ Ссылка ] and "Judaism in a Secular Age" [ Ссылка ], both available from the IISHJ directly or on Amazon.com.
