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Conference keynote addresses 2006 Progress? Leah Bender Siemiarowski
  2005 Voices of the past, Visions of the future by Denora Knecht
  2005 Voices of the past, Visions of the future by Judy Seid
  2005 Voices of the past, Visions of the future by Jerry Bain
  2004 Honoring the People's Author by Building Communities by Sam Ruben
  2004 Naye tsaytn. Naye lider. Singing new songs for new times. by Gerry Kane
  2003 Creating & Sharing Jewish Outlooks by Jodi Goldfinger
  2003 Creating & Sharing Jewish Outlooks by Roberta Feinstein
  2001 Shaping Our Secular Jewishness by Jeffrey Kaye
  1988 CSJO Conference Keynote by Amy Meckler
  1987 CSJO Conference Keynote by Gerry Revzin
  1981 CSJO Conference Keynote by Jerald Bain
  1980 A Jewish Alternative To Alienation by Larry Bush
  1980 Yiddishkeit/Mentshlichkeit: What's so new about that? by Hershl Hartman
  1974 CSJO Conference Keynote by Gerry Kane
     
Miscellaneous essays 2008 Albert Einstein as a secular humanistic Jew: By Bennett Muraskin
  2008 Spinoza: The First Secular Jew? by Bennett Muraskin
  2008 Torah and Modern Morality by Bennett Muraskin
  2007 Secular Jews and Pacifism by Bennett Muraskin (adapted from “Jewish Secularism” in Peace, Justice and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition (2007), edited by Murray Polner and Stefan Merken
  2007 A Funeral Story by Charles Baron
  2006 Looking Back on 9/11
This talk was given on Rosh Hashanah by leader Mark Weber.
  2004 Judaism, the Jewish Jesus, and the politics of Judea
A workshop presented by Jeff Zolitor offering a look into the political and social settings, surrounding the life of Jesus from a Jewish perspective.
  2004 Why you should go to CSJO
Written for the summer issue of L'Khaim by Lisa Rothman.
  2004 Jewish Is Not
A poem written by Corinne Low
  2001 Hellenism and the Jews Presented at a workshop at the CSJO conference by Jeff Zolitor, and published by Canadian Jewish Outlook in its Sep/Oct 2001 issue.
  2000 The Khazars Presented at a workshop at the CSJO conference by Peter Wolfe and Jeff Zolitor, and published by Canadian Jewish Outlook in its Sep/Oct 2002 issue.
  2000 So You Want to be a Secular Humanist Jew Essayist Bennett Muraskin defines the progressive Secular Jewish Movement. Reprinted from Jewish Currents.
  1998 Fifty Years of the State of Israel Review of three works presented at the CSJO conference. Introduction by Larry Schofer.
  1998 Toward a True Alliance of Humanistic and Secular Jews Hershl Hartman, Educational Director of the Los Angeles Sholem Community Organization/School, offers a study of Secular Jewishness and Humanistic Judaism.
  1986 Jewish identity and survival: challenge for secular/humanistic Jews.
By Jerald Bain
  1975 Secular Jewishness; what's Jewish about it? An excerpt from Sholom Aleichem Club News & Comment - By Max Rosenfeld
  1965 Zhitlovsky: Philosopher of Jewish Secularism from Jewish Currents - By Max Rosenfeld
    Sacred Doctrine or Political Manifesto? Ancient Jewish Literature in Context - Jeff Zolitor
    CSJO'S Role in Leading the Movement to Greater Recognition and Strength - Gerry Revzin
    One-minute rap on who we are. By Judith Seid
    Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust Reprinted from the Sholom Aleichem Club (Philadelphia) "News and Comment".
    In Search of Sugihara by Hillel Levine A book review by Jane Schofer, Sholom Aleichem Club, Philadelphia. Reprinted from the Sholom Aleichem Club (Philadelphia) "News and Comment".
    The Jews of Sepharad Jeff Zolitor offers an introduction to the history of the Jews in Spain. Reprinted from the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO) newsletter.
    Shevuos and the Giving of the Torah Max Rosenfeld (1913-1997), founder and for many years director of the Philadelphia Jewish Children's Folkshul, was an essayist, folklorist, poet and translator from the Yiddish. Here is his essay on Shevuos, reprinted from his last book Festivals, Folklore & Philosophy. A Secularist Revisits Jewish Traditions (Sholom Aleichem Club Press, 1997). For information on these books, contact the Sholom Aleichem ClubPress.
 


 

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