Welcome to my homepage You will find material here on people I live with plus thoughts about religion and Judaism and course material.

Temple Emanuel Paterson New Jersey My biographical Axis Mundi

Contact information voice mail 1-718-951-5229 E-Mail mmsbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu or motke@prodigy.net

Links B&N.com www.simplyjewish.org

Mordecai M. Kaplan ( 1881-1983) rabbi, faculty of JTS, founder of Reconstructionism and the primary ideologue of American Jewry.

Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) scholar, president of reorganized JTS, ideologue of Conservative Judaism. Husband of Mathilde

Mathilde Roth Schechter (1857-1924) founder of Women's League of Conservative Judaism, writer, editor, wife of Solomon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) poet, essayist, diarist, Concord Mass., transcendentalist thought emphasizing a religion of moral perfectionism focussed on the self.

Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) scholar, savant, editor of Jewish Publication Society, founder of Hadassah, aided rescue of children from Nazi Germany.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Jewish writer, Prague. writing highly symbolic. Style of the parable. Dilemmas of modernity.