About Kaplan
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Will The Real Mordecai Kaplan Please Stand Up? Monday, April 19, 2021 3:00pm EST Dr. Bill Robinson will reflect on how his thinking about Kaplan and Virtue Ethics has continued to evolve since our initial program on January 6, 2021. Dr. Eric Caplan will augment our discussion of Kaplan and Virtue Ethics by guiding us…
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Kaplan at the JC v.3
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In order to view or download the source sheet for this program, please click here. In order to view or download the lovely Haggadah addition from “Our Common Destiny” that was shared during the program, please click here.
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A “pdf” version of the entire 1941 Haggadah (rarely seen these days) is available here (with thanks to HebrewBooks.org and to Aharon Varady of the Open Siddur Project).
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Kaplan and Birmingham (1963) While working on a project for The Ira and Judith Kaplan Eisenstein Reconstructionist Archives of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (https://www.correspondingwithkaplan.com/), I came across a letter to Mordecai Kaplan from Rabbi Everett Gendler, a prominent student of Kaplan’s who is still living, thanking Kaplan for his speech to the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly…
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(August 12, 2019) Kaplan is much undervalued as a theologian. We think of him as a sociological thinker, with his central concept of “Judaism as a Civilization.” But, of course, he is much more than that. We might refer to him as the sociologist become theologian. Below we will see the theologian at work. Kaplan…
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Round 11 In 2022 we will be celebrating the centennial not only of the SAJ’s founding, but also of Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s Bat Mitzvah. With that in mind, we ask: What famous 20th-century rabbi wrote the following regarding Bat Mitzvah? “Clear logic and principles of pedagogy virtually require equal celebration for a girl when she reaches the…