I got this article as an email from Maya Wainhaus - I’m not sure why – for some reason I must have
gotten onto her mailing list. I just thought it appropriate to point out that
Judaism does believe life after death, and always has, until the rationalism of
the Reform and Conservative movements made it passé to believe in something so
illogical. (If I am not mistaken, Conservative Judaism does allow one to
believe in life after death, but it’s optional, and up to the individual to
choose what to believe.) The reason why I’m writing is because, as a Jew, I
feel bad that you feel you are leaving your Jewish beliefs in order to believe
in life after death; nothing could be further from the truth.