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...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath 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...
...American Council for Judaism, which is sharply anti-Zionist and has some 20,000 members. The council stands on the credo of its longtime executive vice president, Rabbi Elmer Berger: "We are Americans by nationality, Jews by religion only." It was founded in 1943 by 15 Reform rabbis and some 25 laymen, and is supported largely by Pennsylvania's Lessing J. Rosenwald, philanthropist, art collector and onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. It has helped establish religious schools (now numbering about a dozen in the U.S.), donates relief funds for some of the 1,000,000 Palestinian refugees...
...this film, to endure it, may well seem to men of conscience a social duty and a moral obligation. Surveying his work, Editor Leiser was reminded of Rabbi Akiba, who in the 2nd century was burned alive by the Roman tyranny. According to legend, the holy man was bound to his funeral pyre and then said quietly: "Even this is good. Even this has meaning...
...Square the rabbi's followers felt that they would at last be free to live unto themselves, without subjecting their schoolboys to jeers at their traditional black coats, round black hats, Orthodox Jewish earlocks. But they soon found that things were not that simple. Zoning laws and sewage disposal, bonds and deeds and building permits, suits and countersuits have plagued the gentle Hasidim of New Square...
...others: the Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum and the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of the so-called Lubavitcher sect, both established in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section...