• Jewish skeptics are Jews (historically, Jewish philosophers) who have held skeptical views on matters of the Jewish religion. In general, these skeptical...
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  • Elisha ben Abuyah (category Jewish skeptics)
    ben Abuyah (Hebrew: אלישע בן אבויה, Elishāʿ ben Avuyāh) was a rabbi and Jewish religious authority born in Jerusalem sometime before 70 CE. After he adopted...
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    Mordecai Kaplan (category Jewish skeptics)
    11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader...
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  • Discourse on the Method A Treatise of Human Nature Aenesidemus Types of skepticism Radical Local Moral Scientific Religious Jewish skeptics Pseudoskepticism...
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    Simcha Jacobovici (category Jewish skeptics)
    Jacobovici was born on April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Romanian–Jewish family. His parents were Holocaust survivors from Iași, Romania, who emigrated...
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    Lawrence Krauss (category Jewish skeptics)
    but spent his childhood in Toronto. He was raised in a household that was Jewish but not religious. Krauss received undergraduate degrees in mathematics...
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    Isaac Asimov (category Jewish skeptics)
    the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and is listed in its Pantheon of Skeptics. In a discussion with James Randi at CSICon 2016 regarding the founding...
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    Uriel da Costa (category Jewish skeptics)
    institutions: his books were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and several Jewish authorities excommunicated him. His iconoclastic life culminated in suicide...
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    Ann Druyan (category Jewish skeptics)
    (née Goldsmith) and Harry Druyan, who co-owned a knitwear firm. Her family was Jewish. Druyan's early interest in math and science was, in her word, "derailed"...
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  • Jewish atheism is the atheism of people who are ethnically and (at least to some extent) culturally Jewish. "Jewish atheism" is not a contradiction because...
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  • Berkowitz, 25 October 1950. Einstein Archive 59-215. "Skeptics Society--Archives". www.skeptic.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2002. Retrieved...
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    Baruch Spinoza (category Jewish skeptics)
    Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment...
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    American Jewish community, with both political and religious skeptics. While not all Jews disapprove of intermarriage, many members of the Jewish community...
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    Leon of Modena (category Jewish skeptics)
    אַרְיֵה מִמּוֹדִינָא, romanized: Yəhud̲ā Aryē miModenā, 1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy after...
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  • Adam Chalom (category Jewish skeptics)
    was born and raised in suburban Detroit, Michigan. His mother came from a Jewish leftist and Yiddish-focused family (both Sholem Aleichem Institute and Workmen’s...
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  • Sherwin Wine (category Jewish skeptics)
    of Humanistic Judaism, a movement that emphasizes Jewish culture and history as sources of Jewish identity rather than belief in any gods. He was originally...
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  • Gordon Stein (category Jewish skeptics)
    activist for atheism and religious skepticism. Stein was born in New York to Jewish parents, and from an early age took an interest in science. He earned degrees...
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  • Hiwi al-Balkhi (category Jewish skeptics)
    (Rosenthal 1948). Some claim that he was a member of the ancient Bukharan Jewish community of Central Asia. Ḥiwi was the author of a work in which he offered...
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  • Epikoros (Judaism) Gilyonim Jewish philosophy Jewish principles of faith Jewish religious movements Jewish schisms Jewish skeptics Kabbalah § Criticism K-F-R...
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  • Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's Jewish population. Although "Jewish" is considered an ethnicity itself...
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    York City to a Jewish family of Romanian Jewish descent. His father was a Holocaust survivor. The family followed Conservative Jewish practices until...
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    Al Seckel (category American skeptics)
    Freethought movement as a skeptic in the 1980s, he was the co-founder and executive director of the Southern California Skeptics. News coverage arising from...
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  • Israeli Jews (redirect from Jewish Israelis)
    Israeli Jewish community, with both political and religious skeptics. While not all Jews disapprove of intermarriage, many members of the Israeli Jewish community...
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    Arnold Ehrlich (category Jewish skeptics)
    influential on the Jewish translation produced by the Jewish Publication Society in 1917 and its successor of 1962–82. Ehrlich was born to a Jewish family in Volodovka...
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    support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine, a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism and central to Jewish history....
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    the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish religious court, could fulfill this role for some if it were re-established. Instead, Jewish principles of faith remain...
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    Modern Jewish historiography is the modern iteration of Jewish historical narrative writing and historical literature. While Jewish oral history and the...
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  • distinction is modeled after the differences between the Academic skeptics and the Pyrrhonian skeptics in ancient Greek philosophy. Pyrrhonian skepticism is a practice...
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  • Category:Jewish secularism Category:Secular Jewish culture by country Jewish atheism Category:Jewish skeptics Category:Jewish agnostics Category:Jewish atheists...
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  • Astrology in Jewish antiquity (Hebrew: מזלות, romanized: mazzalot) is the belief that celestial bodies can influence the affairs of individuals and of...
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