"The Conversion of the Jews" with Paul Golin

Unreasonable

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah we talk with Paul Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, an organization which promotes the concept of being Jewish absent a belief in God.
But as with so much of Judaism, it's not that simple. Jews and their history are laden with baggage.
For starters, is it a religion, a race, an ethnicity or a culture?
Are Jews obligated to adhere strictly to biblical scripture or read the Talmud for interpretive guidance?
Is marrying outside the faith a betrayal of those who died in the Holocaust?
Is it even possible to be a Jew without God?
Does being sympathetic to the Palestinian cause make you anti-Jewish? Does anti-Zionism equate with anti-semitism? If so, what are we to make of Jewish anti-Zionists?
That's a lot to unpack. But we dive in. On this episode of Unreasonable.

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