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...Fogg, the Hanley Collection of French and American 19th and 20th century art continues and is well worth seeing. The Cambridge Art Association (18 Eliot St.) shows paintings by Mordecai. Mary Ogden Abbott's paintings grace Doll & Richards (140 Newbury...
...Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...
...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...
...with a grand dream and a curious problem. He is Attorney James Madison Nabrit Jr.. 59. dean of Howard's Law School and a major figure in the U.S. Negro's legal battle against segregation. His dream, as he takes over this month from retiring President Mordecai Johnson, 70, is to lift Howard from its present position as the nation's most important Negro University (6,507 students in ten schools and colleges) to top academic rank by anyone's standards. The trouble is that the job gets tougher all the time...
...seven large (40 in. by 52 in.) canvases depicting the seven-day creation of the world (see color page). Shown last fall at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, the series will be on view for the last time in Manhattan next week at a reception given by Israeli Minister Mordecai Kidron. Then it will be shipped to Israel (where it will be shown later this year in the museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa), along with the stacks of canvases Kovarsky has completed during his five-year stay in New York...