Cultural Judaism

Apologizes for the late entry again, I was busy with several projects for different classes. Today we have cultural judaism on the menu like reconstructionist jews who base their identity on being a jew without letting religion step in the way. For them, being jewish means to embrace the social and cultural part of judaism. To understand more about what Jewish Reconstructionism is, I explored www.jrf.org. here, I found the Kaplan Blog, including the writings from their religious leader, Aryeh Kaplan which shows their devotion to the man despite his death over 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, at the website www.culturaljudaism.org, which includes the large grant (i.e. bribary) to encourage students to study cultural Judaism which raises the question of how they define "cultural" Judaism. Does it include art, music, history or folklore but do they simply ignore religious studies or philosophy?

I understand why they choose to exclude religious rites because of the trend in non practicing Jews while some Jews don't believe in God that these movements could proivde an identity to Jews who feel disconnected from their religious because of their personal disbelief in religion.