#mordecaikaplan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mordecaikaplan, aggregated by home.social.
-
"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.
“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.
She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”
The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."
-
"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.
“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.
She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”
The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."
-
"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.
“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.
She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”
The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."
-
"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.
“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.
She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”
The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."
-
"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.
“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.
She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”
The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."
-
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MordecaiKaplan #Religion #Tradition
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
-
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MordecaiKaplan #Religion #Tradition
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
-
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MordecaiKaplan #Religion #Tradition
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
-
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MordecaiKaplan #Religion #Tradition
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
-
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MordecaiKaplan #Religion #Tradition
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
-
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Tradition should have a vote, not a veto.
-- Mordecai Kaplan (Jewish Reconstructionist Movement) -
Have you read any books by R. Ira Eisenstein? Along with R. #MordecaiKaplan, he helped create the original form of #ReconstructionistJudaism (which in many ways is different from the movement that we know today.) What do you think of Eisenstein's ideas? What books of his do you recommend?
https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/what-books-should-we-have/
-
Have you read any books by R. Ira Eisenstein? Along with R. #MordecaiKaplan, he helped create the original form of #ReconstructionistJudaism (which in many ways is different from the movement that we know today.) What do you think of Eisenstein's ideas? What books of his do you recommend?
https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/what-books-should-we-have/
-
Have you read any books by R. Ira Eisenstein? Along with R. #MordecaiKaplan, he helped create the original form of #ReconstructionistJudaism (which in many ways is different from the movement that we know today.) What do you think of Eisenstein's ideas? What books of his do you recommend?
https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/what-books-should-we-have/
-
Have you read any books by R. Ira Eisenstein? Along with R. #MordecaiKaplan, he helped create the original form of #ReconstructionistJudaism (which in many ways is different from the movement that we know today.) What do you think of Eisenstein's ideas? What books of his do you recommend?
https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/what-books-should-we-have/