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Jews and God — a Troubled Relationship


By Dennis Prager

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/dennis_prager/article/jews_and_god_a_troubled_relationship_20100309/

We Jews need to face a sad, even tragic, fact. Things are not going very well in the relationship between God and most Jews.

All polling data agree that among Americans, Jews believe in God less than any other ethnicity or religion-based group. More Jews are agnostic, more Jews are atheist, more Jews are secular than any other group.

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