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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was the rabbi of a Manhattan congregation at 22, but he was torn between his own theological liberalism and the unbending Orthodox Judaism he preached. "I worked hard," he said later, "to say something in my sermons that I believed and that would also appeal to the people in my congregation." Discouraged, he seriously thought at one point of switching to selling life insurance...
Last week Dr. Kaplan, a courtly, white-goateed scholar with almost half a century in the rabbinate behind him, walked into the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifteen hundred guests had gathered for the first in a series of testimonial dinners celebrating his 70th birthday (June n). He heard congratulatory messages from Jewish leaders, including Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Lehman and President Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary. They and most American Jews know Dr. Kaplan for his longtime leadership of the Reconstructionist movement-a broad effort to heal the theological divisions in U.S. Judaism...
Last week, after seven days of searching, Kaplan's body was found spinning in a whirlpool at the base of a 40-ft. bluff near the site of the prank. Frightened and confused in the dark, he had evidently run the wrong way, plunged over the bluff into the flood-swollen Red River and drowned...
...night a fortnight ago, Allen Kaplan of Chelsea, Mass. piled into a car with a group of his chums at Northwestern State College in Natchitoches, La. and headed for Grand Ecore Bluff, a remote lovers' lane along the high banks of the Red River. Their supposed purpose: to meet a "hot date" the upperclassmen had fixed up for 18-year-old Freshman Kaplan. They parked the car. Suddenly, as the upperclassmen had planned, another student, impersonating an outraged husband, jumped from behind some bushes and fired a shotgun. The group scattered on the run. The upperclassmen made their...
Retiring executives are Douglas M. Fouquet '51, President; Andrew E. Norman '51, Managing Editor; Norman M. Hinerfeld '51, Business Manager; Paul W. Mandel '51, Editorial Chairman; Roger M. Burke '52, Photographic Chairman; Bayley F. Mason '51, Associate Managing Editor; Peter B. Taub '51, Sports Editor; and John Kaplan '51, Advertising Manager...