Jewish skeptics are Jews (historically, Jewish philosophers) who have held skeptical views on matters of the Jewish religion. In general, these skeptical...
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Carl Sagan (category Jewish skeptics)
not only proponents such as James McDonald and J. Allen Hynek but also skeptics like astronomers William Hartmann and Donald Menzel. The roster of speakers...
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Isaac Asimov (category Jewish skeptics)
the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and is listed in its Pantheon of Skeptics. In a discussion with James Randi at CSICon 2016 regarding the founding...
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Baruch Spinoza (category Jewish skeptics)
Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly...
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Ann Druyan (category Jewish skeptics)
(née Goldsmith) and Harry Druyan, who co-owned a knitwear firm. Her family was Jewish. Druyan's early interest in math and science was, in her word, "derailed"...
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well-known Jewish atheists and agnostics. Based on Jewish law's emphasis on matrilineal descent, religiously conservative Orthodox Jewish authorities...
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Elisha ben Abuyah (category Jewish skeptics)
אבויה) (spelled variously, including Elisha ben Avuya) was a rabbi and Jewish religious authority born in Jerusalem sometime before 70 CE. After he adopted...
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Uriel da Costa (category Jewish skeptics)
on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and he was excommunicated by several Jewish authorities. His iconoclastic life culminated in suicide in c. 1640. His...
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Lawrence Krauss (category Jewish skeptics)
but spent his childhood in Toronto. He was raised in a household that was Jewish but not religious. Krauss received undergraduate degrees in mathematics...
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Mordecai Kaplan (category Jewish skeptics)
1881 – November 8, 1983) was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader...
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Sherwin Wine (category Jewish skeptics)
of Humanistic Judaism, a movement that emphasizes Jewish culture and history as sources of Jewish identity rather than belief in any gods. He was originally...
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Israeli Jews (redirect from Jewish Israelis)
Israeli Jewish community, with both political and religious skeptics. While not all Jews disapprove of intermarriage, many members of the Israeli Jewish community...
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American Jews (redirect from Jewish-American)
American Jewish community, with both political and religious skeptics. While not all Jews disapprove of intermarriage, many members of the Jewish community...
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Gordon Stein (category Jewish skeptics)
activist for atheism and religious skepticism. Stein was born in New York to Jewish parents, and from an early age took an interest in science. He earned degrees...
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Heresy in Judaism (redirect from Jewish heretics)
Epikoros (Judaism) Gilyonim Jewish philosophy Jewish principles of faith Jewish religious movements Jewish schisms Jewish skeptics Kabbalah § Criticism K-F-R...
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Jewish atheism refers to the atheism of people who are ethnically and (at least to some extent) culturally Jewish. "Jewish atheism" is not a contradiction...
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Leon of Modena (category Jewish skeptics)
Modena (Hebrew: יהודה אריה ממודנה Yehudah Aryeh Mi-Modena, 1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy after...
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Ari Shaffir (redirect from Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank)
York City to a Jewish family of Romanian Jewish descent. His father was a Holocaust survivor. The family followed Conservative Jewish practices until...
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Hiwi al-Balkhi (category Jewish skeptics)
(Rosenthal 1948). Some claim that he was a member of the ancient Bukharan Jewish community of Central Asia. Hiwi was the author of a work in which he offered...
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Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's Jewish population. Although "Jewish" is considered an ethnicity itself...
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Arnold Ehrlich (category Jewish skeptics)
influential on the Jewish translation produced by the Jewish Publication Society in 1917 and its successor of 1962–82. Born Jewish in Volodovka, near...
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (redirect from The Jewish Peril (version 2))
Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources...
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Outline of Judaism (section Major codes of Jewish law)
Category:Jewish secularism Category:Secular Jewish culture by country Jewish atheism Category:Jewish skeptics Category:Jewish agnostics Category:Jewish atheists...
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Philosophical skepticism (redirect from Philosophical skeptic)
distinction is modeled after the differences between the Academic skeptics and the Pyrrhonian skeptics in ancient Greek philosophy. Pyrrhonian skepticism is a practice...
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Dan Harris (journalist) (category Jewish American journalists)
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book (2017), co-authored with Jeff Warren and Carlye Adler ISBN 9780399588945 Jewish Buddhists Harris...
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2017. Around 2015–2016, Haqiqatjou created the YouTube Channel Muslim Skeptic and also created a website with the same name, both providing personal...
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Stoicism (redirect from Greek skeptics)
Sampradaya Shuddhadvaita Vishishtadvaita Navya-Nyāya Islamic Aristotelianism Averroism Avicennism Illuminationism ʿIlm al-Kalām Sufi Jewish Judeo-Islamic...
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Climate change denial (redirect from Greenhouse skeptics)
suppression" involving "undisclosed funding of these 'greenhouse skeptics'" with "the climate skeptics" confusing the public and influencing decision makers.: 3...
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Astrology in Jewish antiquity (Hebrew: מזלות, romanized: mazzalot) is the belief that celestial bodies can influence the affairs of individuals and of...
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Al Seckel (category American skeptics)
Freethought movement as a skeptic in the 1980s, he was the co-founder and executive director of the Southern California Skeptics. News coverage arising from...
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