HUMANISTIC RABBI TO TALK ABOUT MODERNITY EFFECTS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- The effects of modernity and the Holocaust on Jewish thinking will be explored by Rabbi Eva Goldfinger when she presents ``Humanistic Judaism: A Scientific and Historical Perspective on the Jewish Experience.'' She will talk from 7 to 10 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. boardroom, SSV SSV Surface Safety Valve SSV Specialty Sports Venture LLC (Denver, CO) SSV Simian Sarcoma Viral SSV Soldier Survivability SSV Sommer Schluss Verkauf (German: Summer Season Low Price) 151, 3041 W. Ave. K, Lancaster. Goldfinger has been a spiritual leader in the secular humanistic Jewish movement since 1989. A recent study by the Gallup organization for Baylor University's Institute for the Study of Religion pointed out that 10 percent to 15 percent of Americans do not claim a belief in a God. An additional 25 percent expressed a belief in a distant, uninvolved un·in·volved adj. Feeling or showing no interest or involvement; unconcerned: an uninvolved bystander. Adj. 1. God, one with no concern for humans. Humanistic Judaism adheres to the belief that reason, rather than faith, is the source of truth and that human intelligence and experience are capable of guiding people's lives. Goldfinger was born into a Chasidic family in Hungary after World War II. Her family immigrated to Canada in 1957. During adolescence she became a feminist and began to question the authoritarian and patriarchal systems of organized Judaism. A psychotherapist psy·cho·ther·a·pist n. An individual, such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurse, or psychiatric social worker, who practices psychotherapy. , she eventually became involved with the Secular Humanistic Jewish Movement in North America, which led her to deeper Jewish study. The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Michigan ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. her a rabbi in 2005 after she received her master's degree in Secular Humanistic Judaism and completing a five-year rabbinic rab·bin·i·cal also rab·bin·ic adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of rabbis. [From obsolete rabbin, rabbi, from French, from Old French rabain, probably from Aramaic program. She also earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Jewish studies from Hebrew College in Boston. She is currently serving Adat Chaverim in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . She is a faculty member of the International Institute for Secular and Humanistic Judaism and the director of its Canadian division in Toronto. Goldfinger's visit is sponsored by the college's Flex Program. |
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