Category talk:Jewish atheists

Why eemove == atheist? ==

i don't have anything against this category, i'm just puzzeld on how are we supposed to peg people down as religious or not. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 15:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

John McCarthy was Jewish by birth?

I don't think so!

Paul Abrahams (talk) 16:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

This category

This category contains many people who do not have a source for being atheist --69.153.67.164 (talk) 05:52, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, some of these people are not atheists. Walter Kaufmann said in his book The Faith of a Heretic that he is an agnostic. Noam Chomsky is a practicing Jew from what I have gathered from his books. But many names are given but are not referenced. Teetotaler 22 July, 2008

Oh, whether or not Chomsky practices Judaism, a reference is needed to list him as an atheist. Seeing none I will remove Chomsky from this list (if I can figure out how to). Teetotaler —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.81.197 (talk) 06:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Atheists or what?

Is this category mean that all other Jews are follow judaism?--Vojvodaeist 19:06, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

It means that in some countries (such as the U.S. and the former Soviet Union), Jews are an ethnic group, so that you can be ethnically Jewish, but religiously atheist... AnonMoos (talk) 19:35, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

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Karl Marx was Lutheran and his father was a minster. He was very religious and certainly not an atheist. His grandfather was jewish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.242.154 (talk) 00:08, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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Marx being Lutheran for whole life? Sources, please. It's not uncommon people adopt or throw away a religion.

As far I know, he was Atheist [lacks sources, however - if one likes, I can search them.]

Einstein should be put in the category, too - he was Atheist: [Writing to Eric Gutkind] "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." Source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion

a list of possible additions

(you are welcome to check it out and confirm)

confirmed atheists, taken from hebrew wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Avnery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_Sik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Tumarkin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Miller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Haim_Brenner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Aloni

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lapid

not sure if agnostic\atheist\skeptics\anti-religious, need sorting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendele_Mocher_Sforim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Aleichem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nordau

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Arlosoroff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayyim_Nahman_Bialik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Hushi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Ussishkin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Sokolow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Be%27er

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Segal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Sharett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Allon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baruch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Katzir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Navon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigael_Yadin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Paritzky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Oron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzan_Horowitz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Poraz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Kaplan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahad_Ha%27am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha_Josef_Berdyczewski

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baruch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Cohen

for more, look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Judaic_studies_in_academia

if anyone can sort the list out, it whould help to organize the list a lot better.

~02:28, 9 February 2009 (UTC)