I post this as Secretary to the Board of Beit Kaplan: The Rabbinic Partnership for Jewish Peoplehood

Beit Kaplan Statement on the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Honorary Degree for Professor Hasia Diner

Beit Kaplan: The Rabbinic Partnership for Jewish Peoplehood (Beit Kaplan) was founded out of a deep commitment to Reconstructionist Judaism, to the teachings of Mordecai Kaplan, and to the enduring centrality of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism within Jewish civilization. We remain committed to a Reconstructionism rooted in Ahavat Yisrael — love for the Jewish people in all our diversity — and to the State of Israel as the historic and contemporary homeland of the Jewish people.

It is therefore with deep disappointment and concern that we respond to the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s decision to honor Hasia Diner with the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Public reporting has made clear that Professor Diner has renounced........

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