Margie Jacobs
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The Kaplan Center joins the family and many communities touched by Rabbi Goldsmith in mourning his death and celebrating his life. He was a student, disciple, and colleague of Mordecai Kaplan of the highest order. In this folder, you will find four different tributes to his life: Later in the year, The Kaplan Center will…
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As we prepare to begin our reading of the Book of Exodus at a time of war and conflict these two reflections by Mel Scult on Kaplan’s views of might and right seem particularly contemporary. From Mordecai Kaplan: What can be plainer than that the following indicates what the Exodus meant to Israel: “And for…
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KAPLAN in the period after the end of World War I , was concerned about the issue of free speech. Right now both in America and in Israel the matter of free speech is very much on people’s minds. With Israel at war should we allow ourselves the space to criticize the government in its…
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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