Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than just a religion. The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism, developed between the late 1920s and the 1940s, before seceding in 1955 and establishing a rabbinical college in 1967. Reconstructionist Judaism is recognized by many scholars as one of the four major streams of Judaism in America, alongside Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform.
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Quote: “We often fail to grasp the seriousness of the menace to the Jewish heritage involved in the modern ideology because we use the term ‘traditional conception of God’ loosely. If we use it in the sense of the belief in the existence of a supreme being as defined by the most advanced Jewish thinkers in the past, there is nothing in that belief which cannot be made compatible with views held by many a modern thinker of note. But if by the term ‘traditional conception of God’ we mean the specific facts recorded in the Bible about the way God revealed himself and intervened in the affairs of men, then tradition and the modern ideology are irreconcilable.”
— Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan | Goodreads
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