List of notable former Orthodox Jews
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This is a list of notable people who left Orthodox Judaism/traditional rabbinic Judaism at some point in their lives.
Ancient[edit]
While Orthodox Judaism is a term applied to traditional Judaism in the modern era, some famous examples exist of those who left rabbinic Judaism in pre-modern times.
Modern[edit]
- Eliezer Ben Yehuda
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
- Heinrich Graetz
- Abraham Joshua Heschel[according to whom?]
- Mordecai Kaplan
- Mendele Mocher Sforim
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Solomon Schechter
- Baruch Spinoza[dubious ]
- Barbara Streisand
- Jacob Freud
- Yosef Haim Brenner
- Sholem Aleichem
- Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin
- Saul Lieberman
- Shimon Peres
- Menachem Begin[citation needed]
- David Hartman (rabbi)
- Moses Mendelssohn[citation needed]
- Salomon Maimon
- Harry Austryn Wolfson
- Abraham Geiger
- Shmuel Ben-Artzi
- Micha Josef Berdyczewski
- Abraham Harkavy
- Moshe Zilberg
- Ben-Zion Dinur
- Ezriel Carlebach
- Pessah Bar-Adon
- Gedaliah Alon
- Gene Simmons
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- Chaim Weizmann
- Steven Spielberg
- Chaim Potok
- Chaim Grade
- Chaim Herzog
- Hillel Kook[citation needed]
- Ahad Haam
- Haim Cohn
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