This is an incomplete list of Jewish atheists who are notable by occupation or source of notability. This list includes individuals who have Jewish ancestry from either lineage regardless of religious adherence, unlike the tradition within Orthodox Judaism, which accepts only maternal lineage (Kiddushin 66b, Shulchan Aruch, EH 4:19). Here atheism is understood in its most inclusive sense as the absence of belief that any deities exist and, to a lesser extent, nontheism.
Famous quotes containing the word jewish:
“Don: Why are they closed? They’re all closed, every one of them.
Pawnbroker: Sure they are. It’s Yom Kippur.
Don: It’s what?
Pawnbroker: It’s Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.
Don: It is? So what about Kelly’s and Gallagher’s?
Pawnbroker: They’re closed, too. We’ve got an agreement. They keep closed on Yom Kippur and we don’t open on St. Patrick’s.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)