Kaplan’s concept of Judaism as an evolving religious civilization was widely influential in 20th-century American Jewish life, and his founding of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College created a new denomination. This…

Examining the intellectual influences that prompted Mordecai M. Kaplan to reject fundamental Orthodox precepts, this text asks whether an established religious group can learn from a heretic who has rejected…

This text provides selections from the diary of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism in America. The selections contained in this particular volume cover his writings between the years 1913…