[DOC] [TLE] The First Bat Mitzvah in the United States | Jewish Virtual Library [PAR] As Hyman notes, "The bat mitzvah ritual was introduced into American ... 
Mordecai Kaplan intended bat mitzvah to give females equal standing with males 
and ... Thus, if girls of 12 or 13 were to have a coming-of-age ceremony 
equivalent to ... If no thunder sounded when 12-year old Judith Kaplan read at 
the bimah of the... [DOC] [TLE] History of Bat Mitzvah - My Jewish Learning [PAR] The first American bat mitzvah in 1922 initiated a ceremony that continues its ... 
girls at 12 or 13 years of age are undertaking exactly the same ceremony as boys
. ... began in 1922 when Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of 
Reconstructionism, ... Judith to celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah at a public 
synagogue ceremony. [DOC] [TLE] Conservative Judaism - Wikipedia [PAR] Conservative Judaism is a major confessional division within Judaism, which 
views Jewish ... While regarding itself as the heir of Rabbi Zecharias Frankel's 
19th-century .... an important place within the denomination, especially 
represented by Mordecai Kaplan. ... Dorff categorized the proponents of this into 
two schools. [DOC] [TLE] For The First Time (or the last time): March 2008 [PAR] Mar 31, 2008 ... 1922: first American Bat Mitzvah ceremony ... privileges at age 13, often with a 
special ceremony in a synagogue, and often with a celebration ... 12-year-old 
Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, ... Except in Italy, before 1922 
there was no ritual for girls parallel to a boy's Bar Mitzvah ceremony. [DOC] [TLE] Recent Trends in American Judaism - PolicyArchive [PAR] Mar 27, 1987 ... joined the UAHC within a two-year period.9 Orthodox synagogues also ..... 
burning of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan's Sabbath Prayer Book,... [DOC] [TLE] reconstructionism in american jewish life - PolicyArchive [PAR] cially indebted to Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, president of the Reconstructionist ... There 
are a number of synagogues in the United States each of which .... into a program 
of Jewish life as consistently or thoroughly as Kaplan. ...... When Kaplan was 12 
years old, he was enrolled in the Jewish Theologi- ..... in a public ceremony. [DOC] [TLE] The Conservative Rabbi-"Dissatisfied But Not Unhappy" - American ... [PAR] though such names as Mordecai M. Kaplan, Jacob Kohn, Elias Solo- mon, Louis 
... who left the leading Orthodox synagogue to form a Conservative con-. [DOC] [TLE] Shamash Book of the Month Archive [PAR] In this new collection of classic and modern folktales, Rabbi Edward M. .... 
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Winter Holidays : Hanukkah, Tu b'shevat, 
Purim ... connection with history and with holiness: baby-naming ceremonies for 
girls, divorce ... As a result of our confrontation with Modernity, the integration of 
Jews into the... [DOC] [TLE] Jewish Americans - History, European life, Immigration waves ... [PAR] Jewish history dates back 4,000 years to the time of Abraham, the biblical figure 
.... They consciously avoided assimilation into American culture and continued to 
..... Two other vital components of Judaism are the rabbi and the synagogue. ... 
Developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Mordecai M. Kaplan and influenced by the
... [DOC] [TLE] Exploring Religion-Judaism Glossary - University of Wyoming [PAR] In Temple Times, this was accompanied by the High Priest entering into the ... 
asking for righteous judgement, (12) Praise asking for punishment of heretics, (13
) ... and the Jewish term for what Protestant Christians call the Old Testament. ..... 
was created in the 1940's by an influential Conservative rabbi, Mordechai Kaplan
. [DOC] [TLE] History - Adath Jeshurun Congregation [PAR] This was the Adath Yeshurun Cemetery for many years, until, during hard 
financial ... They wanted an American-trained rabbi to lead the congregation. ... 
and on September 11, 1927 the Adath Jeshurun moved into its first built 
synagogue. .... had all leaned towards the Reconstructionist teachings of Dr. 
Mordecai Kaplan),... [DOC] [TLE] Judaism facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Correspondingly, religious thinkers brought its theoretical teachings into 
alignment with ... circumcision, since it initiates the eight-day-

Question: In the 1920s rabbi Mordecai Kaplan brought this ceremony for 12-year-old girls into the synagogue
Answer: Bat Mitzvah