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Religious Jews are generally proud of their relig- ion, they are happy to explain it to non-Jews, they welcome and are even Xattered by the interest of outsiders.
American Jews, the religion of ordinary Jews? What in Judaism resonates with individual Jews and their families? For those Jews who seek to participate in the religious sphere, what is on offer? And what is happening when Jews gather for public worship in congregations and unconventional religious settings? © Copyright, Princeton University Press.
Judaism is considered to be a religion, as well as a nation and culture. Some people may identify as being a Jew (descendants of Jews) because of a sense of shared ethnicity and historical experience, but may not follow the Jewish faith. Spiritual leaders are called rabbis.
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Judaism is the historic culture of the Jewish people and religion is only one part of that culture. People possess the power and responsibility to shape their own lives independent of supernatural authority. Ethics and morality should serve human needs and choices should be based on
Judaism is a tradition grounded in the religious, ethical, and social laws as they are articulated in the Torah—the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Jews refer to the Bible as the Tanakh, an acronym for the texts of the Torah, Prophets, and Writings.
This approach to religion distinguishes between a conceptual definition of what religion is and the myriad reasons why people do religion. The con-ceptual definition, we will see, references public traditions, institutions, and cultural prescriptions.
