Subject: Judaism Reading List: Reconstructionist Judaism (Pt. VI)
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              Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism
                      Part VI: Reconstructionist Judaism
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This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list
of references to allow them to learn more about the current practices, past
practices, beliefs, and history of the Reconstructionist Judaism Movement.

Reconstructionist Judaism is the small "fourth movement" of American Judaism.
It was founded by the Conservative Rabbi and philosopher Mordecai Kaplan. It
emphasizes "Judaism as a civilization" (i.e., the integration of selected
Jewish beliefs with the Jewish people's culture and folkways).

Reconstructionist Jews are willing to question conventional answers and keep
open minds.  They believe that a Jew need not and ought not sacrifice
intellectual integrity for the sake of his/her Jewish identity.
Reconstructionists are Jews who take the Jewish traditions seriously and live
Jewish lives even through they don't believe in the divine supernatural
origin of the Torah.  Reconstructionists believe that, just a Jewish
civilization has adapted to new circumstances throughout Jewish history, so
must it adapt to late twentieth-century North American society.
Reconstructionists tend to conduct more intimate worship services in which
everyone is involved and the rabbi--if there is one--does not dominate.

The membership body of the Reconstructionist Movement is the Jewish
Reconstructionist Foundation. The congregations and havurot (Reconstructionist
Judaism originated the Havurot concept) are organized into the Federation of
Reconstructionist Congregation and Havurot. The association of the
reconstructionist Rabbis is the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.  The
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, located at Church Road and Greenwood
Avenue in Wyncote PA 19095 publishes _Raayonot_ as its rabbinical journal.

Information on where to obtain these books, including an explanation of the
<INP> and <JPS> notations, may be found in Part I of the Reading List
(judaism/reading-lists/general).

Publications of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, the Reconstructionist
Press, etc. may be obtained from:

          Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot
                         Church Road & Greenwood Ave.
                           Wyncote, PA  19095-1898
                                (215) 887-1988

There is also an archive of FRCH information available on
shamash.nysernet.org. The archive has general articles on reconstructionism, a
list of FRCH affiliates (including a mechanism for finding them by state),
tables of contents of two issues of The Reconstructionist (a quarterly journal
published by the reconstructionist movement), and four articles that have
appeared in the journal.

Information on where the reading lists are archived, and how all pieces of the
FAQ and Reading Lists may be obtained by anonymous FTP or other means may be
found at the end of this posting.

This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by
programs such as "gnus".

Reproduction of this posting for commercial use is subject to restriction. See
Part 1 (general) for more details.

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Subject: VI.1. PHILOSOPHY OF MOVEMENT

[Alp85] Alpert, Rebecca T. and Staub, Jacob J. _Exploring Judaism: A
        Reconstructionist Approach_ Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1985.
        ISBN 0-935457-00-3.

[Eis52] Eisenstein, Ira and Kohn, Eugene. _Mordecai M. Kaplan: An
        Evaluation_ Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1952.

[Kap34] Kaplan, Mordecai M. _Judaism as a Civilization_. Reconstructionist
        Press, New York. 1934. Also available from Jewish Publication Society,
        Philadelphia PA. ISBN 0-8276-0194-8. <JPS>

[Kap36] Kaplan, Mordecai M., Ed. _The Jewish Reconstructionist Papers_.
        Behrman's Jewish Book House, New York. 1936.

[Kap48] Kaplan, Mordecai M. _The Future of the American Jew_.
        Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1948.

[Kap56] Kaplan, Moredecai M. _Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist
        Answers_. Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1956.

[Kap60] Kaplan, Mordecai M. _The Greater Judaism in the Making_
        Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1960.

[Coh58] Cohen, Jack J. _The Case for Religious Naturalism_.
        Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1958.

[Scu85] Scult, Mel and Goldsmith, Emanual. _Dynamic Judaism: The Essential
        Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan_. Reconstructionist Press & Schocken
        Books, New York. 1985.

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Subject: VI.2. RECONSTRUCTIONIST EDUCATION

[Sta85] Staug, Jacob and Schein, Jeffrey eds. _Creative Jewish Education: A
        Reconstructionist Perspective_. Rossel Books and Reconstructionist
        Rabbinic Council Press, New York. 1985.

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Subject: VI.3. RECONSTRUCTIONIST LITURGY

[FRC94] Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot. _Kol
        Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim_. The Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote PA,
        1994. [Sabbath and Holidays Prayerbook; includes a revised version of
        the Erev Shabbat book]

[FRC93] Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot. _Kol
        Haneshamah: Nashir Uneverah_. Enlarged Second Edition. The
        Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote PA, 1993. [Songs and Grace After
        Meals -- words, but not music]

[FRC91] Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot. _Kol
        Haneshamah: Shirim Uvrahot_. The Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote PA,
        1991. [Songs, Blessing and Rituals For the Home -- includes music;
        also available is an audio tape to accompany the book.]

[JRF41] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _The New Haggadah_. Jewish
        Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1941. [Passover Liturgy]

[JRF45] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _The Sabbath Prayer Book_.
        Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York.  1945. [This is been
        superceded, but gives an idea of the early approach]

[JRF48] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _High Holiday Prayer Book_.
        Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1948.

[JRF58] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _Festival Prayer Book_. Jewish
        Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1958 [Festival Liturgy]

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Subject: Archival and Credits

Anonymous FTP: 
  
  All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on
  shamash.nysernet.org [192.77.173.13] and on rtfm.mit.edu, and are available
  for anonymous FTP.   The locations of the parts of the reading lists on
  shamash.nysernet.org are as follows:

  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/general
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/traditional
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/mysticism
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/reform
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/conservative
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/reconstructionist
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/humanistic
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/chasidism
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/zionism
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/antisemitism
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/intermarriage
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists/periodicals

  The locations of parts of the FAQ on shamash.nysernet.org are as follows:

  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/01-FAQ-intro
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/02-Who-We-Are
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/03-Torah-Halacha
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/04-Observance
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/05-Worship
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/06-Jewish-Thought
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/07-Jews-As-Nation
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/08-Israel
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/09-Antisemitism
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/10-Reform
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/11-Miscellaneous
  ftp://shamash.nysernet.org/israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ/mail-order

  If you are accessing the archives on rtfm.mit.edu, the pathname is
  pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism, instead of israel/lists/scj-faq.

Mail:  
  The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to
  mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message:

        send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname)

  Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and
  filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would
  say:

        send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general

WWW/Mosaic:
  The FAQ and reading lists are available by following the following pointer:

  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/soc/culture/jewish/top.html 

Credits:
  This list is based on research done at the University of Judaism in January
  1993 by faigin@aero.org. Contributions were also made by Sharon Morrison
  (sharon@cs.uiuc.edu) and Aaron Seidman <seidman@pioneer.ci.net>.
  Suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief*
  annotations for the entries.

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