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The Secular Issue | Spring 2011

From the Editors ~ Matti Bunzl and Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Marsha Rozenblit


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


The author’s grandmother, Poland, circa early 1900s. Photo courtesy of the author. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Secular Jewish Thought ~ David Biale


Synagogue Paris, 2007. Photo by Myriam Tangi. Secularizing (Jewish) Sex ~ Naomi Seidman


Portrait of Grace Aguilar. Courtesy of The New York Public Library. Resisting Secularism? Grace Aguilar and Isaac Leeser on English Bibles ~ Andrea Schatz


Portrait of Baruch Spinoza An Icon for Iconoclasts: Spinoza and the Faith of Jewish Secularism ~ Daniel B. Schwartz


The Cat’s Eye Nebula: Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust. Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain) and Z. Tsvetanov (NASA). Walter Benjamin, the Kabbalah, and Secularism ~ Kam Shapiro


Jewish Secularism and the Campaigns against Political Catholicism and Islam ~ Ari Joskowicz


Laïcité, Fraternité, and Nationalité: Discontinuities in French Jewish Discourse ~ Kimberly Arkin


Yehoshua Gardens Dog Park, Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo by the author. New Jewish Kinship—with Dogs ~ Susan Kahn


An advertisement for “Songs of the Bible” in a music store at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, August 2009. Photo by the author. A Secular Return to the Bible? Reflections on Israeli Society, National Memory, and the Politics of the Past ~ Yael Zerubavel


Yom Kippur, Herzliya, 2007, by Ron Almog, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. An Evolving Secularism: Yom Kippur Streets in Israel ~ Yehuda C. Goodman


Entrance to Kiryas Joel. Photo by Karin Kugel. Rethinking Secularization Theory: The Case of the Hasidic Public Square ~ David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg


Semacode eruv markers/NYC, 2005; www.dziga.com/eruv. Photo credit: Elliott Malkin. Jewish Studies "Born Digital" ~ Heidi Lerner


Artwork Featured in The Secular Issue ~ New Catalogue


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