Can a Jew be excommunicated?

Yes, Jews can be excommunicated. The Hebrew word for excommunication is herem.

it involves the cutting of all religious, social, and business ties with someone considered dangerous to the community.

One of the most famous cases of herem involved the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza.

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