On the eve of Rosh Hashanah we talk with Paul Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, an organization which promotes the concept of being Jewish  absent a belief in God.

But as with so much of Judaism, it's not that simple. Jews and their history are laden with baggage. 

For starters, is it a religion, a race, an ethnicity or a culture? 

Are Jews obligated to adhere strictly to biblical scripture or read the Talmud for interpretive guidance?

Is marrying outside the faith a betrayal of those who died in the Holocaust?

Is it even possible to be a Jew without God?

Does being sympathetic to the Palestinian cause make you anti-Jewish? Does anti-Zionism equate with anti-semitism? If so, what are we to make of Jewish anti-Zionists?

That's a lot to unpack. But we dive in. On this episode of Unreasonable.

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