More than 500 Conservative and Reform synagogues throughout the country will devote special Sabbath services this Saturday to celebrate the 85th birthday of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement. He was born June 11, 1881, in Lithuania, and launched the Reconstructionist movement in this country in 1935.
According to Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, president of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, “this is the first time in a generation that so many synagogues belonging to more than one denomination will focus their attention during one Sabbath service on the lifelong contribution of one Jewish leader of our time.”
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