Article: HUMANISTIC JEWS FIND IDENTITY WITHOUT GOD.(Local)

Byline: Jean Torkelson

In a crisp gray suit, his pinkie ring flashing as expressive hands fly through the air, Sherwin Wine resembles an art dealer more than a rabbi.

But rabbi he is, and a tireless one at that. Good thing, since the movement he founded 30 years ago in Detroit, the Society for Humanistic Judaism, has 5,000 years of tradition and scholarship to overtake.

This weekend, Wine was in Denver to see the still-small but spirited chapter organized in 1991.

Founder and follower, all long to develop their Jewish identity without believing in God.

``I don't know if I ever believed in God,'' says Joseph Solomon, 69, an ...

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