INTERVIEW BETWEEN DAVID BIALE AND SAN FRANCISCO'S KQED'S HOST MICHAEL KRASNY
(February 2, 2011)
In his new book Not in the Heavens,
author David Biale chronicles the development of Jewish secular culture
which, he claims, began with the Bible and continues to this day. Biale
joins KQED's Michael Krasny to discuss his exploration of the roots of
modern Jewish secularism within the religious tradition it rejects, and
what the role of Jewish secularism is today.
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DEAR HAREDIM, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, SECULAR JEWISH CULTURE WAS THRIVING
Carlo Strenger, Ha'aretz (February 13, 2010)
An important article in Ha'aretz notes the significant contribution of secular Jewish culture over the last two centuries. Despite the fact that these contributions are often overlooked by some Orthodox Israelis, known as Haredim, "...in the last 200 years new Jewish identities, including secular Jewry, have emerged, [and] culturally these ways of being Jewish have been enormously creative, [and] secular Jews are the largest sub-group of world Jewry and in Israel (around 40 percent)."
CULTURE IS THE GLUE TO UNITE THE NUMEROUS STRANDS OF JEWISHNESS
Felix Posen, THE TIMES OF LONDON, (December 19, 2009)
Who is a Jew? The recent Supreme Court ruling has highlighted the deep differences between the many ways of answering that simple question.
PROFESSOR ELI YASSIF WINS PRESTIGIOUS ISRAELI LITERARY AWARD
Professor Eli Yassif, the academic advisor and representative of the Posen Foundation in Israel, has won the 2009 Bahat Prize for outstanding academic manuscripts from the University of Haifa press.
ONE ON ONE WITH FELIX POSEN: SECULAR SCHOLARSHIP
Ruthie Blum Leibowitz, THE JERUSALEM POST (August 13, 2009)
Secular Judaism - or Jewish secularism - is a huge field, not fully developed," explains Britain based philanthropist Felix Posen. "So you won't even find the term in the Encyclopedia Judaica." Indeed, bemoans Posen - here earlier this month to attend the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - "it's as though we don't exist... in spite of the fact that we are the majority."
JEWISH HERITAGE DOES NOT BEGIN AND END IN THE SYNAGOGUE
Akiva Eldar, HAARETZ (July 3, 2009)
"Felix Posen is devoting the bulk of his wealth and most of his energy to instilling the treasures of Jewish culture among Jews in Israel and abroad. In a recent interview in Tel Aviv, during a visit on the occasion of Amos Oz's 70th birthday, Posen said that only education in Judaism as a cultural treasure comprising history, philosophy, literature and social thought as well as religion - which constitutes just one element of the culture of the past - will save the Judaism of our generation from extinction."JEWISH WORD: FLASH POINT IN THE CULTURE WARSNadine Epstein, MOMENT MAGAZINE (May/June, 2009)
From conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to author Christopher Hitchens, many consider the central struggle of our time to be one between secular forces and the faithful over the role of religion in America.
BEYOND BELIEF
Nathan Schneider, THE BOSTON GLOBE (April 26, 2009)
Research on religion goes after a new target: the secular.
NEVER AT A LOSS FOR WORDSRuth Beloff , THE JERUSALEM POST (December 4, 2008)
The bibliographical project, funded by British benefactor Felix Posen, is dedicated to listing every book, journal article and scholarly treatise on the subject of anti-Semitism written in any language and published anywhere in the world.PROJECT FEEDS SECULAR CULTURE INTO UNIVERSITIES' JEWISH STUDIESLarry Luxner, JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY, (May 21, 2006)The Jewish Telegraphic Agency focuses on the Posen Foundation's Project that funds courses on secular Jewish culture at academic institutions in the United States and Israel.
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