Word: reconstructionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court decision-while he was an editor of America. Work began in 1961 after Father Abbott had been joined by Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, a Methodist educator, the Rev. J. Carter Swaim, a Biblical scholar and Presbyterian pastor, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, now dean of the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia...
Clinical Detachment. Such a man naturally attracted many biographers-ten in all-and played dashing walk-on parts in innumerable histories and memoirs. His eleventh, Fawn M. Brodie, has shown her skill before (Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens, Mormon Joseph Smith). She intrepidly explores the intrepid explorer, and in Burton the mystery is darker than any continent. He is a hard chap to map. His source may lie in the Peaks of Paranoia or the Pools of Narcissus. It is anybody's guess...
Mordecal M. Kaplan, founder of the Reconstructionist Movement in Judaism, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight at Lowell Lecture Hall on "Judaism as an Ongoing Religious Civilization." His Benjamin M. Selekman Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society...
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...