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Secular Jews

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Secular Jews is a stream in nowdays judaism. Many of the jews, mainly in Israel, are categorizing theirself as secular jews. Mainly, but not accurately (changes from every person):

  • They speak Hebrew (which is forbidden by orthodox jews).
  • They celebrate holidays: Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashana, Yom Kipur, Succot, Purim, Passover, Shavuot), Their country's holidays (Independence day), jewish history events (Holocaust Remembrance Day).
  • They don't go to synagogues or go once in a while (most notably on Saturdays or holidays.
  • Some eats only Kosher food (labeled with Kosher given by the religion authorities), while some eats permitted jewish food (with no Kosher label) and others eats just anything (including non Kosher food).
  • Some don't do any work on sabbath - saturdays (as written in the Hebrew Bible's forth commandments). some just don't lit lights and fire on saturdays. some don't drive on saturdays. others just rest on saturday. In Israel, because of the nature of it as a jewish state, there is no public transportations during saturday.
  • Usually, most parent male circumcise their newborn sons, as written in the bible.
  • Most of the jewish weddings in Israel are religious weddings, which includes a rabbi that manage the ceremony.
  • The burial of jewish seculars is a regular jewish burial service, followed by a week of mourning, named Shiva (in hebrew) followed by memorial services on the 30th day of the demise and also every year.