Kaplan

American  

[kap-luhn] / ˈkæp lən /

noun

1. Mordecai Menahem 1881–1983, U.S. religious leader and educator, born in Lithuania: founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism.

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Example Sentences

As the biographer and literary scholar Carla Kaplan recounts in “Troublemaker,” Jessica started an escape plan early, opening a bank account at 12 to build up running-away funds.

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“Troublemaker” logs Mitford’s travels and transformations with brio, even while Ms. Kaplan details accounts of the civil-rights causes Mitford threw herself into.

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Sydney, according to Ms. Kaplan, “said little about it.”

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Miscalculation has often plagued American military ventures, especially in places where the U.S. has less reliable local knowledge, Kaplan said.

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Mordecai Kaplan defined God as a spiritual and ethical power within us that urges us to do good.

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