Dan Cedarbaum
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First, I want to thank everyone for coming today – especially the many of you who traveled across the country on a moment’s notice. It is a true testament to how loved our dad was and it is such an incredible comfort to our family as we cope with this unimaginable tragedy. To state the…
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As many of you know, Dan Cedarbaum spent much of the last ten years running the Mordecai M. Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood. Dan was a co-founder of the Center and its Executive Director. In truth, he was the center of the Center; the force that made the work possible. We, the members of the…
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More than 80 years ago, at the very beginning of the very first issue of The Reconstructionist journal, Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan and his colleagues reprinted an editorial from a 1928 issue of that journal’s predecessor, The S.A.J. Review, succinctly explaining their reasons for the creation of a new movement. “[T]he problem of Jewish life is just th[e]…