Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (born 1881)

Mordecai Kaplan

Lithuanian American rabbi (1881–1983)

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein. He has been described as a…