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Article: Subtraction; HUMANISTIC JEWS GATHER ON SHABAT. THEY LISTEN TO HEBREW MUSIC. THEY ACKNOWLEDGE ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR. WHAT THEY DON'T DO IS WORSHIP GOD.(NEWS)
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- September 30, 2000
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The Jewish High Holidays have arrived, replete with prayer and fasting, repentance and ceremony. The small core of Humanistic Jews in the Twin Cities will take part in the observations of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but without the deity who informs the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform denominations.
Without God.
God, the after-life, angels, prayer - none of it shows on the Humanistic radar. They have a word for those concepts: supernaturalism. However, not every Jew with a Humanistic bent would answer to the name atheist.
"We believe in spirituality, in the broad sense," said Harold Londer, a prime-mover in the group's growth in the Twin ...