Wrong spelling of "atheist" aside, no there is no such thing as an Atheist Jew. Quite a few Jews or more accurately ex Jews identify as such to hang on to the identity without being honest about the nature of so called "cultural Jewishness". The problem with this semantic gymnastic is that there is no such thing as a collection of Jewish cultural practices that is in any way removed from the religious rituals and beliefs. This is the glaring hole in the argument of being an atheist in a context of theistic practices. You can go through the motions of Jewish religious rituals by being a non believer but that only makes you an impostor, a pretender. Someone actively falsifying their own participation. You maintain your group status as Jew while actively disbelieving the very aspects that make a Jew....a Jew. No different than being a cultural Christian or Muslim. If you go to mass or mosque and go through the motions of the rituals while being a disbeliever. You are faking it. Jewishness is particularly problematic in this regard because of the only 2 ways that you can "legitimately" become a Jew. One, is to have a Jew mother, the other is conversion. If a for example Christian woman marries a Jewish man and converts to the religion she becomes a Jew. If however she decides that the religious beliefs are ridiculous and she stops or never did believe in Yahweh she is no longer a member of the Jewish faith but.....somehow via magical thinking no less still identifies as a Jew (Rachel Dolezal style). So no, there is no such thing as an atheist Jew any more than an atheist Christian. Ex Jews hang on to their Jewish descriptor because of the many social and economic advantages, not to upset their families but its entirely illogical and hypocritical to do so.

Culturally u can be whatever religion
So yes there can be
I am an atheist but culturally Christian

You can be a religious Jew. Our religion is not solely predicated on belief in God. It's a moral legal and ethical system and the concept of belief in god isn't necessarily central to Jewish life and practice. Suffice it to say it is fundamentally different from Christianity in that way and it's very difficult to explain why to a gentile.

Jewish as a ethnic person yes but not as a member of the Jewish faith! .

When I joined the "Brights" they had monthly meetings and a July Bar-B-Que. I met a group of Cultural Jews and was surprised. I was told theirs was the largest group of secularists in the country.

I went to a talk given by somebody identifying as an atheist Jew. He explained that being Jewish is a culture and is separate from just being a religious choice.

There's a long tradition of atheistic/agnostic Jews.

most of the Atheists in my A/A groups were Jewish.

I would think the "atheist Jew" is more a distinction of ethnicity than it is religious, for those who describe themselves as such. It is saying they arer descended from Jews, but do not believe. Makes total sense to me. Jew is one of those few instances where the same word is used to describe both a religion and an ethnicity.

You can't get much more atheist than this secular Jew. Here is the major distinction: There are two types of folks who can declare themselves to be Jewish. Converts who have accepted all the stuff that goes along with becoming a member of the religious community. The second group is made up of those who are born into the bloodline by maternal heritage.

The latter group is full of types of Jews. One of those types is a person who accepts none of the trappings, but has been raised in the culture. This person cannot dispose of the lineage and the acculturation may be apparent or it may not. That person is a Jew regardless of what he/she may or may not believe.

Now, because I accept the commonality of the species, I do not think of myself as a separate entity -- a Jew -- but merely as one of the group Homo sapiens sapiens. In spite of that, I am identified by others as a Jew. Oh well.

There would be no modern State of Israel without atheist Jews. Almost the entirety of the original Zionist movement was communist/socialist, to the point where the Soviet Union cheerfully voted for the UN partition plan in 1948 to welcome a state freely choosing communism as a form of government. Of course, the government of Israel never actually mandated communism, but the Kibbutz movement was a personal choice of many early Zionists. To the religious Jews, settlement in Palestine before the return of the messiah would have been forbidden. Of course, that changed after the Holocaust.

Yes, to the extent that the person follows the prevalent beliefs, practices, and norms of the culture without practicing the religion.

My sister is an atheist Jew, or cultural Jew.

I think thats what I am-I identify with being a Jew as a culture/race. After confirmation of 10 yrs of Sunday School I announced my non-belief in god at the ceremony in the Reform temple. My parents shipped me to Israel on a Bible Study tour for punishment. I came back after eight weeks a bigger-non-believer. No god is better than another person's god. Have an issue with "chosen people". I was taught to fear god-that he would punish me.