Dana Evan Kaplan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dana Evan Kaplan
Occupation	Rabbi
Date Of Birth	Oct 29, 1960(1960-10-29)
Age	64
Birthplace	Manhattan
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Libra

Dana Evan Kaplan Biography

Dana Evan Kaplan is one of the most popular and richest Rabbi who was born on October 29, 1960 in Manhattan, New York, United States. Dana Evan Kaplan (born October 29th in 1960) was a Reform Rabbi renowned as a writer on Reform Judaism as well as American Judaism. Kaplan has advocated for an theologically consistent approach to Reform Judaism rather than encouraging an open-minded approach to faith with no limits.

The year 2013 was the time that Kaplan was the author of The New Reform Judaism and the New Reform Judaism: The Challenges and Reflections, published by the Jewish Publication Society, with introduction by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, and an afterword written of Rabbi Rick Jacobs. In the book, Kaplan describes how the American Reform movement faces enormous problems in the future. Kaplan argues that to be able to continue to grow and thrive the movement must to come up with convincing arguments to maintain its position as a Jewish group as an ethnic-religious community in an age where boundaries and boundaries across all sorts are diminishing and disappearing altogether. According to him that this requires the creation of an alternative Judaism which focuses too much on loyalty to communities but on the development of new practices to involve the individual in search of an inner significance.

The book he wrote in 2009, Contemporary American Judaism: Change and Renewal, was mixed between praise for his new methods of Jewish religion seriously and criticised for what many consider an overly insensitive approach to seemingly irrelevant issues. Kaplan asserted that the changing of cultural trends had transformed the nature of non-Orthodox Jewish Judaism in America. The American Jewish religious denominations were no longer as important as they had been in the thirty or thirty-five year period following World War II and were increasingly irrelevant in a time of post-denominationalism. Kaplan credits with the “re-engagement with spirituality” as driving the development of new ways of Jewish living, as discussed in the final three chapters in Kaplan’s book “Radical Responses to the Suburban Experience,” “The Popularization of Jewish Mystical Outreach,” and “Herculean Efforts at Synagogue Renewal.” The Rabbi Lance Sussman, writing in The Jewish Review of Books and praising the last three chaptersas follows “Here, Kaplan is clearly breaking new ground and writing a new narrative for twenty-first century American Judaism.”

Dana Evan Kaplan Net Worth

Dana Evan Kaplan is one of the richest Rabbi from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dana Evan Kaplan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kaplan was born in Manhattan and was raised within New York until the age of 14 when he emigrated from New York to Waterbury, Connecticut. Kaplan attended Ramaz School, Friends Seminary as well as Chase Collegiate School. He completed his degree as Magna Cum Laude at Yeshiva University, received rabbinical religious ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion , Jerusalem in 1994. He also earned received a PhD in History from Tel Aviv University in 1997.

Kaplan was first recognized due to the 2003 release of his work American Reform Judaism: An Introduction. Kaplan has also written on different subjects, such as American Jewish history and Jews from various diaspora communities. Kaplan is heavily influenced from Rodney Stark and other sociologists of religion who applied the Rational Choice Theory to the study of American religious denominationalism, suggested that members of the American Reform Movement had to push for greater demands to improve their production of “collective religious commodities,” the “religious goods” essential for the survival of the religious organization. Kaplan asserted that the notion of autonomy for religious beliefs, though beautiful in its own way but had led to an unproductive cycle of disengagement and apathy within Reform temples across all over the United States. The book was part of an open discussion in Judaism The Quartly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought and responses from the people from the different American Jewish denominations.

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Dana Ranked on the list of most popular Rabbi. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dana Evan Kaplan celebrates birthday on October 29 of every year.