Tag: Emil Fackenheim

My father z"l identified as a non-religious Jew, à la the Israeli paradigm of religious identity (as does my mother), but this bears clarification. Babushka z"l (my mother's mother) described my parents as "religious," which both would consider amusing. I spoke with my Babushka nearly every day for years, and she often voiced this. According to her, my wife and… Continue reading The skeptic’s kaddish for the atheist, 10 →