100 years ago: Mordecai Kaplan arguing for more traditional Judaism - in an interesting venue

I am not at all a fan of "Reconstructionist Judaism" and its founder Mordecai Kaplan.  But he was a foe of Reform Judaism as well, and a hundred years ago he railed against it in a lecture in Brooklyn which has a lot of truth in it.From the Brooklyn Daily Times, November 28, 1922:KAPLAN SEES JEWS SEEKING NEW GODS "Let Us Not Become Too Worldly for Our Faith," Professor...

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Andy Levin's synagogue celebrates Tisha B'Av with a yoga class

In response to a tweet about Andy Levin, who touted himself during his campaign as a former synagogue president, Melissa Braunstein asked, "Why hasn’t an article been written about that synagogue? Are the members all like Levin politically speaking?"The answer is that his synagogue is as fringe about Judaism as Levin is about Israel. His synagogue is Congregation T'chiyah,...

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