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[quote=Anonymous]Well, if you're talking about Jesus as God, then, no, Jews don't believe that Jesus was our savior or the messiah. We're still waiting for the messiah (or the "messianic age," in the case of Reform Jews) to come.

But while most Jews do believe in God (or Yahweh, the transliteration of Hebrew letters that stand for "he whose name must not be said), there are a good number of agnostic or atheist Jews. One of the foundations of Judaism is questioning, and there's a huge text consisting of nothing more than rabbis' arguments about what the Torah (or Old Testament) means. For some Jews, the questioning leads to a non-belief in God.

Because Judaism is an ethnicity/culture as well as a religion, many agnostic/atheist Jews still follow the cultural traditions of Judaism, even without a belief in God. One can still fast and apologize for past sins on Yom Kippur, have a family meal to look back on the week on Shabbat, celebrate bringing light to the cold of winter on Hanukkah, and talk about social injustice on Passover without believing in God. (Just to mention secular celebrations of a few holidays.)[/quote]

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