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Kaplan, Zionism, and Us
by Rabbi Toba Spitzer In The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (published in 1937), in the chapter on Chanukah, Mordecai Kaplan reflected on Jewish survival in the face of competing cultures. He wrote: “Paradoxical as it may seem, if a nation wishes to survive, it must not make survival itself its supreme objective,…
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Memory on Trial & Kaplan’s Two Torahs
As we prepare for the momentous journey that will take us through November 4th, Kaplan Center Director Dr. Jeffrey Schein offers a perspective on our “aging” candidates.
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On Civilization and Culture: Reading Mordecai Kaplan Through the Lens of Eliezer Schweid
by Dr. Deborah Waxman
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A Reconstructed Vision of Living in Two Civilizations
By Dr. Jeffrey Schein. This position paper explores the well-known Kaplanian notion that Jews live in two civilizations, one Jewish and one North American.
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THE ISSUE OF FREE SPEECH: A KAPLAN SERMON FROM 1920
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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Kaplan’s Understanding of Naturalistic Prayer
Video of Dr. Mel Scult’s talk at West End Synagogue