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...addition to the Orthodox and Conservative services, there is a Reform service each Friday night, as well as a monthly Reconstructionist service. We have also created a "Floating Learning Service," which meets once a month in one of the upperclass Houses and is designed to appeal to Jews of all backgrounds who wish to learn more about Sabbath prayer and observance. After all of these services, the entire community joins together in Hillel's dining hall for a communal Sabbath meal which is open to all undergraduates. MICHAEL...
...prominent Reconstructionist is Gary North, Rushdoony's son-in-law and head of his own Institute for Christian Economics. "Scary Gary's" website is by far one of the most popular Y2K panic centers. "In all of man's history," he has warned, "we have never been able to predict with such accuracy a worldwide disaster of this magnitude. The millennium clock keeps ticking. There is nothing we can do." But he has a few recommendations anyhow: buy gold and grain; quit your job; and find a remote cabin safe from the rioting hordes. He also recommends a two-year...
North, who declines to be interviewed, not only hopes that America will fall; he believes it's part of his duty to bring it down, to be replaced by a Bible-based Reconstructionist state that will impose the death penalty on blasphemers, heretics, adulterers, gay men and women who have had abortions or sex before marriage. So it's a fine line for him between warning against a calamity and encouraging panic...
However, don't imagine Koehne's piece to be of the modernist or neo-modernist aesthetic just because it is considered contemporary; don't think "Michel Foucault does orchestral music." Rather, the composer opts for the "Reconstructionist" aesthetic--the program notes state, "Koehne has moved towards an affirmation of traditional values and a vital opposition to what he sees as the sham iconoclasm of the avantgardist attitude." In particular, Elevator Music was inspired by the integration of jazz and popular music into orchestral music. But the piece sounds more like film music than a symphony. Koehne calls his piece...
DIED. Mordecai Kaplan, 102, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, which sees Judaism as an evolving civilization and not just as a religion; in New York City. A professor at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary (1909-63), Kaplan was Orthodox by upbringing, but came to believe that Judaism is a synthesis of religion, race and culture. The practical effect of this view was to see the synagogue as a center for Jewish communal life that stressed the humanistic rather than the solely religious aspects of heritage. Kaplan's ideas were viewed as a divisive force by many Orthodox...