I do come from a Jewish family, but that's not really relevant to the simple argument I'm making here.

Theism is the worship of a personal deity who is supposed to have created the universe and who intervenes in nature. That conception is idolatrous, according to the monotheism that dawned on Jews. Therefore Jewish "monotheism" isn't theistic.

Of course, Jews do personalize God in their scriptures, but the charitable reading of that incoherence is that Jews recognized only over the centuries the atheistic implications of mystical "monotheism." The endpoint of that monotheism is the secular humanism that predominates in modern Judaism.

Is this argument "academic" Well, it's an analysis of the landscape of religious options.