Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Buried
Glendale, New York, U.S.
Semikhah
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.[1][2][3][4] He has been described as a "towering figure" in the recent history of Judaism for his influential work in adapting it to modern society, contending that Judaism should be a unifying and creative force by stressing the cultural and historical character of the religion as well as theological doctrine.[3]
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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher...
Judaism is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed by Rabbi MordecaiKaplan (1881–1983) that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization...
whereas its ultimate goal is to bring the holiness down to the world. MordecaiKaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism, abandons the idea of...
Ha'am and MordecaiKaplan, he viewed Judaism as a Civilization, rather than a religion, though he and other Reform sympathizers of Kaplan fully maintained...
the vast majority of contemporary Jews. Reconstructionist founder MordecaiKaplan believed that "Jewish life [is] meaningless without Jewish law.", and...
important place within the movement, especially represented by MordecaiKaplan. After Kaplan's Reconstructionism fully coalesced into an independent movement...
dates to the founding of the Reconstructionist movement by Rabbi MordecaiKaplan. Kaplan was a strong supporter of the Zionist movement and subsequently...
Notable among such movements has been the Reconstructionist Judaism of MordecaiKaplan, which understands God and the universe in a manner concordant with...
Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reform Judaism. Baruch Spinoza, MordecaiKaplan, and prominent atheists have criticized Judaism because its theology...
181. ISBN 978-0-8276-1350-8. Kaplan, Mordecai M. (2001). Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume. 1; 1913-1934. Wayne State...
century in Iraq. All this may have influenced the American rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, who held the first public celebration of a bat mitzvah in the United...
course of the 1780s to the middle of the 19th century. American rabbi MordecaiKaplan published the first English translation of Mesillat Yesharim through...
on an ontological level. The founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, MordecaiKaplan, espoused a naturalistic definition of God, while some post-Holocaust...
Fundamentals of Jewish Faith, in "The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology, Volume I", Mesorah Publications 1994 Kaplan, Mordecai M., Judaism as a Civilization, Reconstructionist...
New York City, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Founded in 1922 by Mordecai M. Kaplan, the rabbi who founded of Reconstructionist Judaism, the synagogue...
along with his mentor and—through his marriage to Judith Kaplan—father-in-law, Rabbi MordecaiKaplan, founded Reconstructionist Judaism over a period spanning...
to speak of God as what God is, but rather what God commands. For MordecaiKaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, God is not a person, but...
loyalty. The first significant use of the "peoplehood" concept was by MordecaiKaplan, co-founder of the Reconstructionist School of Judaism, who was searching...
theology of Reconstructionist Judaism as presented in the writings of MordecaiKaplan (1881–1983), who was strongly influenced by Spinoza. Many newer, contemporary...
and American Jewish life by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. The book is Kaplan's most notable work and has influenced...
In 1935, the favorable reception to Rabbi MordecaiKaplan's book Judaism as a Civilization inspired Kaplan to launch a magazine, The Reconstructionist...
rabbi, educator, translator, and biblical scholar. Together with Rabbi MordecaiKaplan, he was a founding adviser to a lecture series that became the Young...
Christianity and Judaism akin to theistic naturalism. Examples are: MordecaiKaplan, John Shelby Spong, Paul Tillich, John A. T. Robinson, William Murry...
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