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Also, Edwin E. Moise and John B. Carroll, Education; Dr. George Nichols and Dr. Peter B. Dews, Medical School; Douglas W. Bryant, Library; Thomas J. Wilson, Harvard University Press; Benjamin Kaplan, Law School; George W. Gibson and Robert N. Anthony, Business School...
...essential idea of the Reconstructionist movement is that Judaism is neither religion, race nor culture, but a combination of all three, in what Dr. Kaplan calls "peoplehood." The three groupings of U.S. Jews-Torah-centered Orthodox, ethics-centered Reform, and the Conservatives who lie between them-can unite, says Dr. Kaplan, in this sense of peoplehood. "Jews must become spiritually united, though theologically diverse...
...blue eyes flashing, his white goatee wagging. Octogenarian Kaplan eagerly expounded the principles of Reconstructionism last week in Manhattan for what is at least the 100,000th time. Judaism, he thinks, has passed through three evolutionary stages-national, ecclesiastical, rabbinic-and is now on the threshold of a fourth stage, democracy. The emergence of this democratic stage demands the reconstitution of the Jewish people-in Israel, their historic homeland, in the countries of the dispersion, and in a renewed covenant binding all the world's Jews together, with Israel as the center...
Also necessary is the revitalization of the Jewish religion, not in terms of dogma but in terms of human experience. Dr. Kaplan has no patience, for instance, with the ancient doctrine of the Jews as God's chosen people; he banishes this from Reconstructionist education with the same gusto that he eliminated a "bloodthirsty" Jehovah who would slay the Egyptians' firstborn...
...Mordecai Kaplan's Reconstructionist movement is not large-some 5,500 Jews, largely in the Conservative ranks. But he feels that this is a potent core for the adaptation of Judaism to "the political, economic, cultural and social changes which have taken place in the world...