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The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) is a Jewish seminary in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, and is the only seminary affiliated with Reconstructionist Judaism.
Reconstructionist Judaism is a school of thought established by Mordecai Kaplan in the 1930s. It is a liberal Jewish movement that views Judaism as the “evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people.” Kaplan was highly influential within Conservative and Reform Judaism in the United States, and while he was initially hesitant to establish a seminary which would introduce a new distinct denomination alongside Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism, but eventually gave his blessing which amounted to the opening of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Pennsylvania in 1968.