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14. It's because Jewish is a tribal identity as well as a religion.

Reply to mike_c (Reply #9)

Tue Apr 9, 2013, 07:05 PM

Apr 2013

Christians don't have that uhm... flexibility. I sometimes say I'm a Jewish atheist. My rabbi is an atheist too, but I only see him at atheist and ACLU meetups.

BTW, there are over a hundred secular synagogs in the US.

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