HUMANISTIC JUDAISM

Within the next week, members of the Birmingham Temple will receive an official announcement of the imminent publication of a magazine concerned with our religious commitment. Its name, appropriately, is HUMANISTIC JUDAISM. Its editorial board and staff are members of the Birmingham Temple. Its format will be one of debate; featuring a humanistic Jewish point of view in a lead article and divergent points of view on the same topic in others.

The first issue, scheduled for spring of 1967, will debate the topic, “Can there be a religion in which the concept of God is irrelevant?”

Accompanying the announcement of HUMANISTIC JUDAISM will be a solicitation for subscriptions. Three types of subscriptions will be available to members and friends of the Birmingham Temple. A basic subscription for $2.00 per year, a charter subscription for $5.00, and a patron’s subscription for $10.00 or more. (Not only is the magazine a non-profit enterprise, but all members of the staff and editorial board have already become patron subscribers to cover the initial costs of the magazine’s beginning.)

As a magazine which aspires to become the national voice of your approach to Judaism, there is no question that you will want to subscribe. To enable HUMANISTIC JUDAISM to become financially self-sustaining, however, it is important that members and friends help by getting others to subscribe. So, the solicitation includes an order blank through which you can order gift subscriptions for others as well as a request for names of other interested people you feel may be potential subscribers.

It is our hope that the magazine will eventually become a quarterly. But it must receive your enthusiastic interest and support.

Your subscription orders and your money are needed. We hope that you will take out charter and patron subscriptions, and that you will give subscriptions as gifts.

Our new dynamic approach to Judaism….your point of view….deserves communication to others. Your early subscriptions will guarantee that those ideas will be communicated in a forum of professional calibre.