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Reconstructionist Leader Still Going Strong at 99
— as a speaker at a recep-
tion given for him by a visit-
ing Reconstructionist study
mission, in Jerusalem, in
July 1977.
Nadelmann also told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the entire year be-
tween Kaplan's 99th and
100th birthdays would be
celebrated as "Mordecai
Kaplan Centennial Year."
Nadelmann said the cen-
tennial year will be
launched in the United
States with a reception at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
in New York, Nov. 22.
While specific plans
remain to be completed,
Nadelmann told the JTA,
Kaplan and his second
wife will come to the
United States during the
centennial year to be the
honored guests at the
Nov. 22 event. Nadel-
mann said one of four
daughters by Kaplan's
first marriage, Hadassah,
was coordinating plans
By BEN GALLOB
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Last Junell,one of the most
influential scholars in the
history of Judaism, Dr.
Mordecai Kaplan, reached
the age of 99. Though he had
formally retired from an
active role as teacher and
public speaker in 1977,
Kaplan continues to give
lectures and greets a steady
stream of visitors at the
home of his second wife in
Jerusalem where he had
lived since settling in Israel.
The founder of the Recon-
tructionist Movement
ade aliya seven years
ago, bringing to at least a
partial close an extraordi-
nary career as scholar,
educator, philosopher and
author. He continued in Is-
rael to make public appear-
ances, one of the last formal
ones — according to Rabbi
Ludwig Nadelmann,
president of the Jewish Re-
constructionist Foundation
-
for the visit.
Nadelmann, reporting
that he had last seen Kap-
lan in 1977, described Kap-
lan as mentally alert,
though suffering from some
of the physiCal disabilities
associated with his ad-
vanced years. He is recover-
ing from a broken hip suf-
fered in a fall.
In his something less
than total retirement,
Nadelmann said, Kaplan is
still regularly sought out by
visitors to Israel, including
the hundreds of rabbis and
Jewish teachers who
studied in his classes at the
Jewish Theological 'Semi-
nary (JTS) in Manhattan,
where he taught for more
than half a century. He was
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His ideological history is
one of a struggle between
the Orthodox beliefs he was
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such a Jewish outlook was
incompatible with the out-
look of Jews born and raised
in the unique freedom of
American life. Out of that
struggle, the Reconstruc-
tionist philosophy emerged.
Kaplan was described in
the June 1980 issue of "The
Reconstructionist," the
movement's organ which he
helped found, "as the one
man who has taught at least
three generations of Jews
how to think about Judaism
in the modern world."
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West Point cadets Lori Sussman, left, and Christy
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Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Kaps of Tenafly, N.J.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — built on a site at the Mili-
Twenty surrogate Jewish tary Academy near the Pro-
mothers beamed with testant and Catholic
pleasure on Rosh Hashana chapels.
as their young guests,
Jewish men and women ADL Project
cadets from the U.S. Mili-
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Point, enjoyed traditional Against Prejudice
home cooking.
NEW YORK — The
The cadets attended High
Holiday services in full different kinds of prejudice
dress uniform with with infecting the nation's
their host families and were schoolchildren are the
overnight guests on Rosh targets of a unique teacher-
Hashana and Yom Kippur. training tool developed by
The hosts are members of the Anti-Defamation
Cong. Beth Chavairuth in League of Bnai Brith.
Entitled "Prejudice Proj-
northern New Jersey, led by
Rabbi Avraham Soltes, who ect," it was developed by
is also the Jewish chaplain ADL and the University of
at West Point and conducts Nebraska at Omaha Col-
Friday night services there lege of Education and was
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Nlitmong the 50-family con- around the country.
Included are psychologi-
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and enthusiastic. Al-_ cal profiles, questionnaires,
though the congregation, role playing improvisa-
a havura, usually holds tions, class project concepts,
services in members' graphs, multimedia sugges-
homes, High Holiday tions and bibliographies —
services were held in the all prepared by University
Tammy Brook Country of Nebraska professors at a
summer curriculum de-
Club in Cresskill, N.J.
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at West Point and services collaboration with ADL.
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a chemistry lecture room. cial, religious and ethnic
However, a drive to raise biases, but also with such
$5.5 million for a Jewish problems as sexism and
chapel has reached the prejudice against the
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