Joshua Leifer
ContributorJoshua Leifer is a member of the Dissent editorial board. His essays and reporting have also appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, +972 Magazine, and elsewhere.
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March 5, 2020
Bernie Sanders’ Secular Judaism
This February 27th article by Joshua Leifer, entitled “Civic Religion and the Secular Jew,” is available in full on Jewish Currents: While Sanders readily admits that he is “not actively involved in organized religion,” it isn’t quite accurate to describe him as “religiously unaffiliated.” That’s because, like many of the conventional frameworks for understanding faith and religious identity in