Sherwin T. Wine

Rabbi Sherwin Wine was the founder of Humanistic Judaism, a fifth alternative in Jewish life. Founding rabbi of the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills, Michigan (the first congregation Humanistic Judaism), he was also instrumental in the organization of the Society for Humanistic Judaism in 1969, the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in 1985, and the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews in 1986. Sherwin Wine was a modern-day Renaissance man whose interests ranged far and wide, leading him to found the Center for New Thinking in 1977, where he was primary lecturer for 30 years.