Tag Archives: Mordecai Kaplan

(Essence of Judaism) Sherry Herring (NYC)

Posted on November 15, 2022 by zjb

(W. 72nd Street between Broadway and West End Avenue) (Kaplan was right) “With this approach, the question of “why be a Jew?” loses its relevance. If Jewish life is a unique way of experience, it needs no further justification. We … Continue reading →

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(1948) Reconstructionist Machzor (Holocaust & Zionism)

Posted on September 21, 2020 by zjb

This 1948 Machzor is a neat little time capsule. Of particular interest is the names of authors and translators in the back of the text. Included below are the authors and translators to the Yom Kippur section (vol.2). Also in … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 10, 2014 by zjb

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 zjb

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 zjb

http://pjc.georgetown.edu/document/1242816466979/Kaplan+Conference+-+Online+Program.pdf

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

Posted on February 10, 2014 by zjb

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 zjb

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 zjb

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 zjb

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 zjb

[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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