Tag Archives: Mordecai Kaplan

Religion Is What We Do With Our Solitariness (Whitehead) (Kaplan)

Posted on March 10, 2014 by

Mordecai Kaplan may have misunderstood what Whitehead meant by defining religion as that which “the individual does with his own solitariness” (Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p.16). For Kaplan, religion is primarily “social.” But I think he overlooked the phenomenon of … Continue reading →

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Notes from Mordecai Kaplan Conference at Georgetown (2014)

Posted on March 4, 2014 by

Back from “Architect of the Jewish Future: A Conference on the Life, Work, and Legacy of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan.” The conference was skillfully put together by The Mordecai M. Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood, the Department of Jewish Studies at … Continue reading →

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(Conference) Mordecai Kaplan Architect (Georgetown University)

Posted on March 1, 2014 by

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An (American) Philosophy (In the Car) With (John Dewey & Mel Scult)

Posted on February 10, 2014 by

One last little bit from Mel Scult’s The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan. This one is about pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. “Experience” is “like driving a car. When we drive, there is a constant interaction with our envirponment … Continue reading →

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An (American) Jewish Philosophy (Mordecai Kaplan) (Mel Scult)

Posted on February 10, 2014 by

This will be my final post about Mordecai Kaplan and Mel Scult’s book The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan. My last post about Kaplan was critical, but I wanted to end these reflections on a more upbeat and … Continue reading →

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Mordecai Kaplan – Critical Remarks (Reading Mel Scult)

Posted on February 6, 2014 by

As I think I have said more than once of late in previous posts, reading Mel Scult’s The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan has sharpened my appreciation for Kaplan as a thinker. Mel has given us to understand … Continue reading →

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Self & God (Mel Scult) (The American Judaism of Mordecai Kaplan)

Posted on February 5, 2014 by

I’m going to mark Mel Scult’s recent book, The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan as one of the most important books in modern Jewish philosophy that I’ve read in a long time. In re-introducing us to Mordecai Kaplan, Mel … Continue reading →

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Mordecai Kaplan — Religion of Human Techno-Genesis and Emergent Evolution

Posted on January 30, 2014 by

[Note to readers: This longer than usual post represents the center of gravity to my current thinking here at JPP re: Mordecai Kaplan. Preparing a conference presentation on Kaplan and technology, I didn’t think there was going to be too … Continue reading →

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Judaism As Aesthetic Civilization (Mordecai Kaplan)

Posted on January 23, 2014 by

(Enrico Glicenstein) It turns out that Kaplan thought at least a little bit about art in relation to Judaism, which is very interesting. There are two facets to his thinking, in general, and we see it here as well. The … Continue reading →

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Mordecai Kaplan on a Donkey in Palestine (1925)

Posted on January 22, 2014 by

This photograph of Mordecai Kaplan on a donkey in Palestine was taken in 1925. Kaplan went to Palestine to represent the ZOA at the opening ceremonies for the Hebrew University. It appears on p.203 of Communings of the Spirit, Mel … Continue reading →

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