Mordecai Kaplan’s Reconstructionist Vision: What Panned Out? What Fell Short?
Hosted By: Haberman Institute
The Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies presents a session with Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson, American Jewish University Goldstine Distinguished Scholar, on Mordecai Kaplan’s 1934 work “Judaism as a Civilization,” a comprehensive analysis of what ailed American Jewish life and a set of prescriptions to fix it. The session examines how Kaplan’s bold proposals created a generational agenda for change across faith, ritual, philosophy, language, peoplehood, and ethics, and how he succeeded in transforming American Jewish life forever. It also considers how his insights missed important emotional, religious, and social realities that limited the spread of his ideas.
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