A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
A *Progressive movement.
Founded by Mordecai *Kaplan and disseminated from 1935 by the Reconstructionist Magazine, Reconstructionism maintains that Judaism is an evolving religious civilization. The Reconstructionist *Prayer Book avoids all notions of a personal *messiah, the *chosenness of the *Jews or the specific revelation by *God to *Moses. Kaplan’s ideas have been highly influential and most major American cities have a reconstructionist congregation.
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