Rabbi Sherwin Wine founds the Birmingham Temple in Michigan and then the Society for Humanistic Judaism, organizing secular Jews around Jewish culture, history, and ethics without theistic belief. Stream milestone.
Tagged: Jewish Secular Judaism
The Event
- Date
- 1963 (exact)
- Era
- Contemporary; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Birmingham, Michigan; today Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Secular Judaism
- Key figures
- Sherwin Wine
- Key texts
- Judaism Beyond God (1985)
Primary Sources
- Society for Humanistic Judaism founding documents (1963)
Secondary Sources
- Wertheimer, A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America (Basic, 1993)
- Sarna, American Judaism: A History (Yale, 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0139; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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