Rabbi Sherwin Wine, Founder of Humanistic Judaism, Dies at 79 (obituary)

This Haaretz obituary reporting Rabbi Sherwin Wine's death at 79 is a piece of journalism covering the sudden 2007 death of the founder of Humanistic Judaism, killed in a traffic accident while on vacation in Morocco, and it is useful for exactly what a contemporaneous news obituary is good for: verified biographical facts, his 1963 founding of the movement's first Detroit-area congregation, its explicitly non-theistic liturgy retaining Jewish cultural identity while excluding prayer to God, and the movement's growth to an international following. As journalism rather than scholarship, it summarizes rather than analyzes Humanistic Judaism's theological positioning within the wider landscape of Jewish denominational thought, a question better addressed through dedicated academic or denominational sources.