Sherwin Wine

Sherwin T. Wine (b. January 25, 1928), is a rabbi and founder of the Society for Humanistic Judaism.

He was educated at the University of Michigan and at Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College. He founded the Birmingham Temple (the first Humanistic Jewish congregation) in Detroit in 1963.

The American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year for 2003.

He is part of a small group of atheist and agnostic Jews, who hold that cultural expressions of Judaism are a viable approach to modern Jewish identity , and believe such groups should be accepted on a par with theistic Judaism.

External link

• Society for Humanistic Judaism