Emanuel S. Goldsmith is Professor of Jewish Studies at Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY 11367 and Rabbi of Congregation M’vakshe Derekh in Scarsdale, NY. He co-edited Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Fordham University Press, 1991) and The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan (NYU Press, 1990).