Word: reconstructionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...