Frederick E. Greenspahn

Judith Eisenstein was an American visionary, a scholar whose work bridges the ancient and the modern, the sacred and the deeply personal. Born into a lineage of profound spiritual innovation, as the daughter of Mordecai Kaplan, the architect of Reconstructionist Judaism, Eisenstein forged her own path, demonstrating an early and potent connection to the mystical. Her pioneering public Bat Mitzvah in 1922 was not merely a ritual act but a radical assertion of spiritual agency, a testament to her …