What is Jewish Atheism?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I agree with Marx above (heh, never thought I'd say that!)

Jewish 'culture' I think is just as important to most Jews as the religion itself.

Simon Schama is a famous British atheist Jew who also happens to be an eminent historian here in the UK. He did a program recently where he discussed the notion of Jewish identity throughout the world and how it has endured through generations and numerous persecutions. The identity of 'Jewish' is just as important and synonymous with what it is to be a Jew as YAWEH, at least to him. He claims that wearing something like the Kippah is more than simply an affirming of ones belief in the dogmas and doctrines of belief in a god; it is an image of what it is to be 'Jewish' beyond that, and that when he is amongst Jewish friends and family for a formal occasion it is for the act of recognizing the past, and the struggle his ancestors went through in events such as the holocaust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Jews