'Why are so many Jews atheists?'

Daniel McIlhiney  |  Comment
Date posted:  2 Feb 2026
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'Why are so many Jews atheists?'

Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"Why are so many Jews atheists?"

I hear this a lot.

In Israel, for example, just under half of the Jewish citizens are atheists. In America, it sits at around a third. This doesn’t include Reformed and Progressive Jews, many of whom don’t hold belief in God in any traditional way.

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