VIDEO
Amos Oz: Championing Jewish Culture
Amos Oz discusses Jewish values, life beyond the synagogue, and the seductions of Jewish culture.

ESSAY
Mother of Hebrew Writing
The artful fiction of Dvora Baron.

MUSIC
Singing the Exodus Story
By JEFFREY A. SUMMIT
How Seders incorporate the struggle for civil rights.

ESSAY
A Secular Jewish Passover Celebration
By HERSHL HARTMAN
Hartman explores the secular and historical meaning of Passover.

ESSAY
Secular Passover Values
By ADAM CHALOM
Why change is the Passover tradition.

FOOD
Chefs Interpret Passover
By CLARA SILVERSTEIN
New takes on some old favorites.

ESSAY
New Understanding of the Enduring Holiday Symbols... Plus an Orange
By RABBI PETER H. SCHWEITZER
An Introduction to Passover's symbols.

ESSAY
Updating Traditions
By ALICIA OSTRIKER
A review of The Liberated Haggadah.

POETRY
Three Poems
By RUTH KNAFO SETTON
A glimpse into the world of Mizrahi Jews, the experiences of Jewish women of Arab lands, and a secular Jewish identity.

HISTORY
Yiddish Theater in Europe
By NAHMA SANDROW
The short-lived yet influential movement.

ESSAY
The True Story of Purim
By JUDITH SEID
Judith Seid on the origins of the holiday.

ESSAY
Philosophical Roots of Secular Jewishness/Judaism
By DR. PAUL G. SHANE
When and how Jewishness adapted to a secular world.

ESSAY
Heine: Father of Secular Judaism
By EGON FRIEDLER
Egon Friedler reviews an important Heine biography.

ESSAY
The Origins of Hanukka
By RABBI SHERWIN T. WINE
A story of human power.

PODCAST
Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle in Conversation
Harvey Pekar discusses Studs Terkel, and his own secular Jewish identity, with cultural historian Paul Buhle.

ESSAY
Female Prophets in the Bible
By RACHEL ELIOR
Rabbinic tradition and changing perspectives.

ESSAY
Song of Songs: A Secular Masterpiece
By YAAKOV MALKIN
The Bible’s secular love poetry.

FILM
Roots Lost and Found
By OLGA GERSHENSON
Russian-Jewish cultural identity on the silver screen.

HISTORY
Moses Mendelssohn: Father of the Haskalah 
By NORMAN MASSEY
A freethinking Jewish revolutionary.

NON-FICTION
Sarna's Haiku for Young Jews
By JESSE TISCH
A review of Jonathan Sarna’s A Time to Every Purpose.

ESSAY
The New Order of the Ages
By BARRY KOSMIN
Exploring the modern origins of secularism.

SCIENCE
Does Science Matter?
By JESSE TISCH
Secular values and the battle over science education.

HISTORY
Spinoza: The Marrano of Reason
By YIRMIYAHU YOVEL
A scholar decodes the heresy of Spinoza.

ESSAY
The Fall Holidays
By JUDITH SEID
A secular Jewish rabbi briefly explains the holiday season.

HISTORY
Baruch Spinoza: The Last Medieval Heretic or the First Secular Jew?
By DAVID BIALE
The heresy of Baruch Spinoza.

ESSAY
Jews and Native Americans
By RACHEL RUBINSTEIN
Reflections on Insider/Outsider Jewish Identity.

FOOD
Gefilte Fish or White Piano?
By ANNA SHTERNSHIS
Perceptions of the shtetl in Jewish life.

HISTORY
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture
By DAVID FISHMAN
Chaim Zhitlovsky—one man’s contribution to Yiddish culture.

SPORTS
Jews and Sports
By REBECCA ALPERT
A surprising way to explore secular Judaism.

INTERVIEW
Channeling Spinoza
By JESSE TISCH
Q&A with Rebecca Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza.

ESSAY
The Jewish Century
By YURI SLEZKINE
Nineteenth-century Jews championed secularism and enlightenment.

ESSAY
An Intellectual History of Secularism
By GREGORY KAPLAN
A scholar’s notes.