Category talk:Jewish atheists

message: I don't think so!
Paul Abrahams (talk) 16:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: John McCarthy was Jewish by birth?

message: (you are welcome to check it out and confirm)
confirmed atheists, taken from hebrew wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Avnery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_Sik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Tumarkin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Haim_Brenner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Aloni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lapid
not sure if agnostic\atheist\skeptics\anti-religious, need sorting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendele_Mocher_Sforim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Aleichem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nordau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Arlosoroff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayyim_Nahman_Bialik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Hushi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Ussishkin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Sokolow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Be%27er
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Segal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Sharett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Allon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baruch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Katzir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Navon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigael_Yadin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Paritzky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Oron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzan_Horowitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Poraz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Kaplan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahad_Ha%27am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha_Josef_Berdyczewski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baruch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Cohen
for more, look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Judaic_studies_in_academia
if anyone can sort the list out, it whould help to organize the list a lot better.
~02:28, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: a list of possible additions

message: the father of zionism and israel - atheist
plz add to list  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mizanthrop (talk • contribs) 02:48, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theo Herzl 

message: This is one of the most absurd categories I have ever seen. What's next: Jewish atheists who wear blue socks? Sunray (talk) 22:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please look at the comment of "19:35, 17 August 2008" above.  Whether you think it's funny or not, there are actually a number of people who are proud to identify themselves as "Jewish atheists"... AnonMoos (talk) 23:14, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not funny, ridiculous. What difference does it make whether someone is proud of being a Jewish atheist? Should we narrow the list to only those who are proud of being in the category? If you read the comments of some of these folks, they are probably more accurately termed agnostics. Carl Reiner (who does call himself an atheist) also says: "I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody." Reiner's humourous take on God reveals some fairly sophisticated thinking that is almost beyond categorization. Sunray (talk) 23:35, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

text: You may think that it's "stupid", but in actual real life there are a number of people who are atheists in religious belief, yet also Jewish by ethnic background, and who would never dream of denying their Jewish background. AnonMoos (talk) 22:13, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Quoting Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) from blogs.discovermagazine.com: "Having a religious affiliation is not the same as being theistic. I’m sure a lot of the 14 percent of scientists who identify as Jewish are atheist or agnostic — they’re Jewish by culture, tradition, belonging, etc. This is especially true of Judaism but is probably also true of other religions to lesser extents." I don't agree this categorization is in any way anti-Semitic; on the other hand it is informative and enlightening as to the nature of both Judaism and atheism. Dan ☺ 23:25, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What next?

message: Should Lisa Jardine be included here? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:27, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Would probably be better to discuss the question at Talk:Lisa_Jardine... AnonMoos (talk) 23:41, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Lisa Jardine

message: Should the name Evan  Harris be included here? After all, if one looks at the categories under the article Evan Harris, you will see he is classified as a Jewish British politician. Vorbee (talk) 18:42, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it a defining characteristic? WP:CATEGORIZATION– Editor2020 (talk) 01:01, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Evan Harris