Editing Judaism (section)

==Criticism==
{{Main|Criticism of Judaism}}

Criticism of Judaism may include those that require [[Historical revisionism|revisionism]] to classical Orthodox Judaism, such as that of the modernized denomination of [[Reconstructionist Judaism]] as established by American rabbi [[Mordecai Kaplan]], who believed that classical Orthodox Judaism is outdated as a religious belief on its own, and should represent the [[Judaism as a Civilization|Jewish culture as a progressive civilization]].<ref name="delusion">{{cite book
|title=The God delusion
|date=11 May 2024
|url=https://archive.org/details/goddelusion00dawk
|isbn=978-0618680009
|pages=[https://archive.org/details/goddelusion00dawk/page/37 37], 245
|last1=Dawkins
|first1=Richard
|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Seeman |first=Isadore |title=Reconstructionist Judaism |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/09/21/reconstructionist-judaism/ec2210ea-38b6-45a6-bf09-f8f247e83b40/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240424034031/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/09/21/reconstructionist-judaism/ec2210ea-38b6-45a6-bf09-f8f247e83b40/ |archive-date=April 24, 2024 |access-date=April 23, 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |quote=In the 1930s Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan recognized that many Jews were losing interest in religious observance, except perhaps for the high holidays. As a cogent philosopher and the leader of a congregation in New York, Rabbi Kaplan began to evolve a fresh approach to Jewish belief and practice... The essence of Reconstructionism is that Judaism is not just a religion but an evolving religious civilization. Reconstructionists believe in the importance of music, art, dance, the Hebrew language, a dedication to the State of Israel and a sense of Jewish peoplehood...}}</ref>

On the other hand, proponents of classical Orthodox Judaism such as [[Neturei Karta]] and similar groups strongly oppose the growing accommodation to [[Types of Zionism|political Zionism]] by [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi Jewish]] groups such as [[Agudat Yisrael]]; a previously anti-Zionist proponent of Orthodox Haredi Judaism whom the Neturei Karta see as betrayal by the Agudat Yisrael against the Orthodoxy, in the belief that Judaism should never be conflated with the politics of Zionism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neturei Karta |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/neturei-karta-2 |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org |quote=Neturei Karta (Aramaic: "Guardians of the City") is a group of Orthodox Jews which rejects Zionism and the establishment of the State of Israel. They believe that the true Israel can only be reestablished with the coming of the Messiah.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harb |first=Ali |title='Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,' US House asserts in 'dangerous' resolution |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/6/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-us-house-asserts-in-dangerous-resolution |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en |quote=In the US, Palestinian rights supporters have long rejected conflations of Zionism with Judaism, noting that many Jewish Americans identify as anti-Zionist. "Opposing the policies of the government of Israel and Netanyahu's extremism is not antisemitic. Speaking up for human rights and a ceasefire to save lives should never be condemned," Palestinian American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said in a social media post on Tuesday, explaining her vote against the resolution.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Santos |first=Fernanda |date=2007-01-15 |title=New York Rabbi Finds Friends in Iran and Enemies at Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/nyregion/15rabbi.html |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |quote=... Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, spokesman and assistant director of a small anti-Zionist group with a foothold in this town in Rockland County, home to one of the nation's largest communities of Hasidic Jews... "we had to let the world know, especially the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are not their enemies," he said in an interview, a Palestinian flag with the phrase "A Jew Not a Zionist," written in Hebrew, English and Arabic pinned to the lapel of his coat...}}</ref>

Orthodox Jewish [[public intellectual]] and [[polymath]] [[Yeshayahu Leibowitz]] believed in the separation of church and state,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-22 |title=Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Idol smasher or idol maker? |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/yeshayahu-leibowitz-idol-smasher-or-idol-maker-593342 |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en |quote=Smashing idols was Leibowitz’s mission. And there were many idols to smash: Reform Judaism, Jewish nationalism, Kabbalah, the mystical and messianic insights of Religious Zionism’s Abraham Isaac Kook, the notion that the mitzvot are grounded in moral principles.}}</ref> and regarded [[Reform Judaism]] as a "historical distortion of the Jewish religion".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenberg |first=Joel |date=1994-08-19 |title=Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, Iconoclastic Israeli Thinker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/obituaries/yeshayahu-leibowitz-91-iconoclastic-israeli-thinker.html |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |quote=A staunch believer in the separation of state from religion, he argued that the blend of religion and politics in Israel corrupted the faith... He taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for 36 years, lecturing in biochemistry, neurophysiology, philosophy and the history of science... A volume of his work was published in English under the title “Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State” by Harvard University Press in 1992.}}</ref>