The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism and developed from the late 1920s to 1940s, before it seceded in 1955 and established a rabbinical college in 1967.
The Guide assumes that thoughtful individuals and committed communities can handle diversity and will of necessity reach their own conclusions." ==Origin== Reconstructionism was developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) and his son-in-law, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein (1906–2001), over a period of time from the late 1920s to the 1940s.
After being ridiculed by Orthodox rabbis for his focus on issues in the community and the sociopolitical environment, Kaplan and a group of followers founded the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) in 1922.
In 1935, Kaplan published his book, Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American Jewish Life.
The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism and developed from the late 1920s to 1940s, before it seceded in 1955 and established a rabbinical college in 1967.
The Guide assumes that thoughtful individuals and committed communities can handle diversity and will of necessity reach their own conclusions." ==Origin== Reconstructionism was developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) and his son-in-law, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein (1906–2001), over a period of time from the late 1920s to the 1940s.
Kaplan was the leader of the SAJ until 1945, when Eisenstein took over.
The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism and developed from the late 1920s to 1940s, before it seceded in 1955 and established a rabbinical college in 1967.
The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism and developed from the late 1920s to 1940s, before it seceded in 1955 and established a rabbinical college in 1967.
At the Montreal conference in 1967, Reconstructionist leaders called for a rabbinical school in which rabbis could be ordained under the Reconstructionist ideology and lead Reconstructionist congregations.
By the fall of 1968, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College was opened in Philadelphia.
(The central organization of the movement renamed itself to Reconstructing Judaism in 2018, but the ideology's name remains unchanged.) Reconstructionist Judaism is recognized by some scholars as the fourth major stream of Judaism, after Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. There is substantial theological diversity within the movement.
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