The founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan defines Judaism as an evolving religious civilization.

Perhaps the most controversial form of Jewish philosophy that developed in the early 20th century was the religious naturalism of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.

( Interestingly, a nearly identical episode occurs in Mordecai Richler's Son of A Smaller Hero, another North American-Jewish author to whose work many comparisons with Roth's have been made — most notably, in the alienation experienced by the assimilated Jew, no longer a member of his original ethnic, religious community, yet also not accepted into the larger culture.

The first religious ceremony ordained for the celebration of Purim is the reading of the Book of Esther ( the " Megillah ") in the synagogue, a regulation ascribed in the Talmud ( Megillah 2a ) to the Sages of the Great Assembly, of which Mordecai is reported to have been a member.

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Mordecai Kaplan ( 1881 – 1983 ), one of the great rabbis of the 20th century and the founder of the Jewish reconstructionism movement., was an early advocate for religious naturalism.

Chaim Grade, the son of Shlomo Mordecai Grade, a Hebrew teacher and maskil ( advocate of the European Enlightenment ), received a secular as well as Jewish religious education.

Reconstructionist Judaism, a liberal movement that views Judaism as the “ evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people ” was established by Mordecai Kaplan in the 1930s as a school of thought.

The first split in the Conservative coalition occurred in 1963, when followers of Mordecai Kaplan seceded from the movement to form a distinct Reconstructionist Judaism.

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan ( June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983 ), was a rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator and the co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.

" In 1945 the Union of Orthodox Rabbis " formally assembled to excommunicate from Judaism what it deemed to be the community's most heretical voice: Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the man who eventually would become the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

* Audio and Video Resources for Mordecai Kaplan at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Aspects of panentheism are also evident in the theology of Reconstructionist Judaism as presented in the writings of Mordecai Kaplan.

Reconstructionist Judaism () () is a modern American-based Jewish movement based on the ideas of Mordecai Kaplan ( 1881 – 1983 ).

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.

* Kaplan, Mordecai M. Judaism as a Civilization Reconstructionist Press, New York.

Rabbi Ira Eisenstein ( November 26, 1906-June 28, 2001 ) founded Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, his teacher and, later, father-in-law through his marriage to Judith Kaplan, over a period of time spanning from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

In 1931, he was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he first met and studied with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

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Humanistic Judaism presents a far more radical departure from traditional Jewish religion than Mordecai Kaplan ever envisioned.

* Mordecai Yoffe, East European rabbi and Judaism scholar

In both cases, the text used is not only taken from a Greek addition, the readings also are the prayer of Mordecai, and nothing of Esther's own words is ever used.

The English-language author and Montreal novelist Mordecai Richler used to refer in jest to the London grocer Harrods as " my local dépanneur " during his years in the United Kingdom.

Mordecai Richler is said to have used Klein as a model for the character L. B. Berger in Solomon Gursky Was Here ( 1989 ).

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

As for the identity of Mordecai, the similar names Marduka and Marduku have been found as the name of officials in the Persian court in over thirty texts from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might after all be Mordecai.

His defenders asserted that Mordecai Richler may have been wrong on certain specific points, but was certainly not racist or anti-Québécois.

If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther ( assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I ).

* In Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version the titular character tells us, in relation to the publishing of Terry McIver's first novel, " literature would have been better served had he been interrupted mid-flight by a gentleman from Porlock.

In addition to Billy Williams, the first Bee inducted into the Hall of Fame, former players who have enjoyed major league success include Sal Bando, Vida Blue ( who struck out a team-record 231 batters in 1968 ), Jim " Catfish " Hunter George Hendrick, Phil Garner, Chet Lemon, Claudell Washington, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, Randy Ready, Larry Walker, Rubén Sierra, Kenny Rogers, José Vidro, Ugueth Urbina, Javy López, Mark Buehrle, Mike Mordecai, Shawn Estes, Ruben Gotay and Gus Zernial.

Montréal's characteristic row houses and their iconic alleyways, balconies, and outdoor staircases have become cultural symbols of the city, featured in David Fennario's Balconville and Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

In the twentieth century, Jewish theologians — notably Abraham Joshua Heschel, Arnold Jacob Wolf, Arthur Waskow and Mordecai Kaplan, more recently Michael Lerner and Daniel Boyarin — have emphasised these social justice aspects of the religion.

A considerable number of Jews have held diplomatic posts, among the more prominent being Mordecai M. Noah, consul to Tunis, 1813 – 16 ; Edwin de Leon, consul-general to Egypt, 1854 ; August Belmont, secretary of legation at The Hague, 1853 – 55, and minister resident, 1855 – 58 ; Oscar S. Straus, minister to Turkey, 1887 – 89, 1897 – 1900 ; Solomon Hirsch, minister to Turkey, 1889 – 92 ; B. F. Peixotto, consul to Bucharest, 1870 – 76 ; Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt, 1881 ; Max Judd, consul-general to Vienna, 1893 – 97 ; and Lewis Einstein, third secretary of embassy at Paris, 1903, and London, 1905.

Her interviews for Writers & Company are in-depth portraits of literary figures which over the years have included Saul Bellow, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Mordecai Richler.

Some fans and critics have cited this as Mordecai Richler's best book, and in terms of scope and style it is unmatched by his other works.

The neighbourhood was the childhood home of Quebec writers Michel Tremblay and Mordecai Richler and both have set many stories in the Plateau of the 1950s and 60s.

Not until its importance had been specially urged by the most influential rabbis of Poland — Mordecai Jafe, Samuel Eliezer Edels ( Maharsha ), Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz, among others, in a formal appeal issued from Posen in 1609 — was its publication undertaken.

In 1824, in a precursor to modern Zionism, journalist and Utopian Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat, after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.

Groulx, who is one of the intellectual guides of two generations of Quebecers and one whose name some wanted to see removed from the Lionel-Groulx station a few years ago, to probably replace it by the " Mordecai Richler " station, the René Lévesque Boulevard by, no doubt, " Ariel Sharon " boulevard, the Jacques-Cartier Place by the " Galganov " place, and so on.

Her final interview was with Canadian author Mordecai Richler, which took place just days before her death.