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This year is a very special one. We are celebrating both the 90th anniversary of the publication of Judaism as a Civilization and the 90th birth year of Mel Scult, Kaplan’s biographer. An amazing tidbit: the NYTimes announcement of the publication of this seminal volume came out within days of Mel’s birthdate!! Both of these…
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The notion of living in two civilizations is rapidly being eclipsed in the 21st century by the notion of living in multiple civilizations, among them digital, global, multi-cultural, and multi-gender orientations. From Earl Schwartz Historical and Cultural PerspectivesKwame Anthony Appiah’s work on identity, The Ethics of Identity, (in which he references Kaplan) is a very…
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with author Amy Schiller and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling September 17, 2024 The High Holidays are a time associated with reflection, repentance, and renewal. The Unetanah Tokef prayer, recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur morning, suggests that one of the ways to improve our return to community in the reality of our mistakes is through…
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Sponsored by the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood in cooperation with Camp Havaya and Reconstructing Judaism About the Prize Mel Scult is the premiere biographer of Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. He is beyond doubt the world’s expert on the life and writings of Mordecai Kaplan. We invited teens, B Mitzvah age through 12th grade…
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with Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Ph.D.Sunday, June 9, 2024 Please join us as we thank Rabbi Jeffrey Schein for his work as Executive Director of The Mordecai Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood, introduce our new Executive Director, Rabbi Elisheva Sachs Salamo, and learn from Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Director of the Center for Jewish Ethics and Associate…
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with Aaron Dorfman, Amy Spitalnick, Rabbis Amy Klein and Bill Plevan, and moderated by Rabbi Elyse Wechterman Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Over 50 years ago, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, posited that Democracy was essential for a vibrant and thriving Jewish people/community. Our question is: was he right? Do Jews and Judaism need…
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with Rabbi Elizabeth BoltonMarch 23, 2025 The story of Dr. Judith K. Eisenstein, Mordecai Kaplan’s eldest daughter, is undertold and deserving of attention. She was an educator and an ethonomusicologist, and her accomplishments not only established her as an innovator in her own right, but also as a concrete expression of her father’s views on…
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with Dr. Nadav S. Berman and Dr. Rabbi Vered Sakal How does Mordecai Kaplan arrive at his understandings of truth and religious experience? Join Drs. Berman and Sakal as they explore Kaplan through the lens of the non-Jewish theologian Jon Hick. Dialogue with them as they extrapolate from Kaplan’s philosophical commitments to the critical issues…
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with Rabbis Amy Bernstein, Ed Feinstein and Jeffrey Schein on the successes and challenges of implementing the Judaism as a Civilization program. Sunday, January 7, 2024 – 3pm Eastern Our third and final session of a three part series in honor of the 40th Yahzeit of Mordecai Kaplan and the 90th anniversary of Judaism as a…