Mordecai Kaplan's daughter Judith is called to the Torah at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York, the first bat mitzvah in America; the rite becomes a seed of Reconstructionist practice and, in time, of the wider movement for women's equality in Jewish ritual. Stream milestone.
Tagged: Jewish Reconstructionist Judaism
The Event
- Date
- 1922 (exact)
- Era
- Contemporary; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- New York; today New York, USA
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Key figures
- Mordecai Kaplan, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
Primary Sources
- Mordecai Kaplan, diary account (1922)
Secondary Sources
- Scult, Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Wayne State, 1993)
- Sarna, American Judaism: A History (Yale, 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0137; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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