by JEFF Scotti | Dec 5, 2020 | Posts
Finding Humanistic Judaism by Rick Pascal What does being Jewish mean to me? I was born into a Jewish family. My grandparents were Jewish and so were theirs. I am Jewish by default, labeled by society as a Jew. Do I practice Judaism the same way that my ancestors...
by JEFF Scotti | Mar 1, 2020 | Posts
I was raised as a Conservative Jew, had a Bat Mitzvah at 13, participated in United Synagogue Youth (USY) in high school, and attended Chabad during college. When I married my husband, who was an atheist, he was comfortable with us being married by a Rabbi as he felt...
by JEFF Scotti | Jan 29, 2020 | Posts
SCHOOL CHOICE AND SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue – a case that may have major implications for the free exercise of religion and the future of school choice and public education....
by JEFF Scotti | Jan 29, 2020 | Posts
The words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and the phrase “In God we trust” on the back of a dollar bill haven’t been there as long as most Americans might think. Those references were inserted in the 1950s during the Eisenhower...
by JEFF Scotti | Nov 12, 2019 | Posts, Uncategorized
Yom Kippur is typically a time of remembrance, humility, and most of all atonement. As humanistic Jews we live by the idea of helping others, doing right by others, protecting others, which of course begs the question: What could we possibly have to atone for? ...
by JEFF Scotti | Sep 19, 2019 | Posts, Uncategorized
This Bat Mitzvah student educated her friends and their families regarding the hardships and needs of Moroccan orphans and unwed mothers and their children. Through email campaigns, she collected toothbrushes, toothpaste, school supplies, clothing, scanning...
