Questions tagged [secular-culture]

Does Judaism encourage secular learning? Maths, Sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Automata Theory et cetera . . .

I have recently read a wikipedia article about a person who says he is a a cultural Jew. What does this exactly mean? Is this just a sugar coated way to say a nonreligious Jew or Secular Jew or is there more to it than just that? Just for reference…

Is there a pithy phrase in English that captures the meaning of "behatzlacha"? My sense is that "good luck" has a different meaning, because it implies that luck, rather than, God, runs the world. "With success" is a direct translation, though I'm…