Margie Jacobs
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Personal Prelude Like many of our readers, I struggle to make sense of the events occurring on and after October 7th. Perspective is almost impossible to gain. I wake up daily hoping to hear that all the captives of Zion have been returned. I try to make sense of the absolute evil that came with…
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Between 1972 and 1975, Dr. Mel Scult conducted about 50 hours of taped interviews with Mordecai Kaplan, some of his family, and several of his students. In these recordings, Kaplan talks about his early life and the influences of his parents and teachers on the development of his world view What jumps out immediately is…
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with Rabbi Lee Friedlander and Harriet Feiner January 8, 15, 22, and 29, 7-8:30pm Eastern The thought of Mordecai Kaplan through the eyes of his son-in-law and creative interpreter, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, whose two volumes Creative Judaism and What We Mean by Religion provide shorter more succinct renderings of Kaplan’s classics Judaism as a Civilization…
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Video of Dr. Mel Scult’s talk at West End Synagogue
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Rabbi Ira Eisenstein and Dr. Judith Eisenstein spoke to congregant Ruby Kohn, (daughter of Eugene Kohn, one of Kaplan’s students):
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Mel Scult’s Eight Core Principles of Kaplan’s Philosophy
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Additional Commentaries From Rabbi Bob Gluck Givat Haviva, Israel and a vision of a shared society, in light of Mordecai Kaplan’s teachings.Maybe it is precisely during times when peace between Jews and Palestinians seems most distant and unattainable that it is most essential for us to maintain a long view. As difficult as this may…