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Why Is a Jewish Atheist Different from All Other Atheists?

JL;DR SUMMARY "Why Is a Jewish Atheist Different from All Other Atheists?" explores the unique position of Jewish atheists who actively identify with their Jewish heritage despite a lack of belief in God. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityFreudReasonEthicsJewish AtheismSpinozaHeinrich HeineEinsteinIsaac DeutscherMoral Universalism

Places mentioned

Poland
"In 1958, Isaac Deutscher, who had been born in Poland of a Hasidic family and had fortuitously left in 1939 to take a job as a journalist in England, gave a talk at Londons Jewish Book Week entitled The Message of the Non-Jewish Jew."
London, United Kingdom
"In 1958, Isaac Deutscher, who had been born in Poland of a Hasidic family and had fortuitously left in 1939 to take a job as a journalist in England, gave a talk at Londons Jewish Book Week entitled The Message of the Non-Jewish Jew."
Sussex, England, United Kingdom
"Berlin blocked Deutschers appointment to the University of Sussex as morally intolerable."
Putumayo, Colombia
"Luxemburg, writing from a prison cell during World War I to a friend, the German-Jewish socialist and feminist Mathilde Wurm, expressed exasperation with Wurms Jewish particularism: What do you want with this theme of the special suffering of the Jews? I am just as much concerned with the poor victims on the rubber plantations of Putumayo, the Blacks in Africa."
Jerusalem, Israel
"But we are there to celebrate an almost fanatical love of justice and desire for personal independence. We are there to sing, in the spirit of love and eternal hopefulness, Next year in Jerusalem."

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