Delighted to be corrected by a photograph of a happy Mordecai Kaplan smiling with colleagues in the early 1950s at the Teachers’ Institute. Easy laughs and relaxed posture. Thanks Maria Carson and Mel Scult for sharing. Modern Judaism should look like this –loose, open, liberal. Mel says on FB that this is a never before seen photograph, or was he just poking gentle fun at me? But as David Kaufman reminds me in a comment to this post, this photo was taken at Teachers’ Institute, where Kaplan was in charge! So at David’s urging, I’m not prepared to give up on my theory about Mordecai Kaplan.