It is cool and popular to say you are anti-religious amongst Israel's elite but that does not mean they do not believe, it means that Jews are skeptics and are wary of extremism, just as they always have been.
Ask any Jew in LA or Tel Aviv if they are religious and just on a that, they will say G-d does not exist but in their hearts, well, that is a different story.
From NJ Jewish News:
(excerpt, read more at link):
“2. Belief in God is not required
Enough with Jews opting out of Judaism because they “don’t believe in God.” You do not need to believe in God — whatever that even means — to be a good Jew. Meaningful Judaism can be about values, tradition, culture, and community.”
If you peruse the comments after the article, you’ll find 7; 5 positive, 2 negative.
Of the 2 negatives, 1 was unhappy about the first “commandment” about being able to have Jewish grandchildren, the other bemoaned the idea of isolationism.
None of the comments specifically refuted “commandment” #2, that belief in God was “optional”.
There is a huge influence in modern-day Judaism, which could arguably be called a secular Judaism, where being a Jew is primarily about ethnicity, culture, tradition, etc.
Seinfeld even made light of it in the episode where the dentist converts to Judaism and Jerry suspects the guy just converted so he could tell Jewish jokes without anyone being able to say he was being anti-Semitic.
I invite the reader to read the article I excerpted and do their own research into support amongst the secular Jewish community, especially those who are of considerable means and societal influence, for things like the homosexual agenda.
Evangelicals really seem to live in a fantasy world when it comes to modern Judaism; in the evangelical’s mind too often it seems they view all Jews as though they are characters from the Bible, whereas modern Jews are much more typically in line with secular humanism than they are in line with any Biblical doctrine.
I mean, “belief in God is optional” ? The whole article is a parody on the Ten Commandments ? On a Jewish news website ? And no one even responds to it ?
It’s like there’s this groundwell of Christian support for the modern state of Israel, yet Jews the world over appear to have turned their back on true belief in God, other than going through the motions of traditions and “sticking together” as a societal group.