Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Cultural Judaism

There is no singular Jewish culture or ethnicity to claim as a Jewish Culture. This is why I have submitted this article for deletion. It gives people who wish to confuse others as to Jewish identity, a sense of legitimacy to claim it since Wikipedia has an "entry" for the term. There is little support to claim this is a stream of Judaism since Judaism is a religion. Jewish identity is not dependent upon adherence to religion but to the criteria of membership of Jewish law.

If you don't have a religion, you don't have Judaism. You can have Jewish cultures ( note: plurality )or Jewish languages or customs, but not Judaism without a religion. Cultural Jewish identity can be a reality, but Cultural Judaism implies a religious stream or movement. This article entry is extremely misleading and poorly referenced. Secular Jews often identify with the culture of their community, but they first had to qualify to be a Jew according to Jewish law or they are not Jews no matter if they speak Yiddish like former Secretary of State Colin Powell who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood, living and working for and with many Jews. I am very new to Wikipedia so I may have made mistakes in how I've done this, but I am not new to Jewish studies, both religious and secular. I see from a link on the deletion request that it was proposed for deletion and the consensus achieved was for deletion as far back as 2006. So, I fail to understand why it is still here, especially since the references given do not support that this is anything worthy of claiming a movement or stream of Judaism. Could I open a blog page titled Center for insert whatever you want to call it Judaism and have only one member and qualify for claiming a *stream* of Judaism? The Link to the Center for Cultural Judaism there states "Over thirty institutions in North America and Europe are associated with the Posen Project for the study of secular Jewish history and cultures." Note the use of the phrase Jewish cultures, the plurality. The studies of these cultures do not designate a stream of Judaism called Cultural Judaism. This entry needs to be deleted as it is being misused to claim there is a movement of Judaism accepted by Jews that permits anyone to be a Jew by simply claiming affinity to "the Jewish culture". I discovered this entry from a Christian missionary claiming to be a Cultural Jew and assuring his audience that it was an accepted movement within Judaism because of the studies at the Center for Cultural Judaism and the Wikipedia entry.I am familiar with the study of Jewish cultures and languages and I study them. I am not in Cultural Judaism. If I were secular and studied Jewish history and languages I would be a secular Jew. Chana Maven (talk) 21:49, 31 January 2013 (UTC)