Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan 'Excommunicated' by Orthodox Rabbis, His Prayer Book Burned" (14 June 1945)

A citation to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's own archived wire report, dated 14 June 1945, on the herem ceremony against Mordecai Kaplan the previous night, read directly. Its strength is that the JTA is a dedicated Jewish news wire service and this report is contemporaneous, filed the day after the event it describes, naming the presiding rabbi, the location and Kaplan's own on the record response. Its limit is that it is journalism rather than a peer-reviewed historical study, so it records what was reported at the time rather than offering later scholarly analysis of the episode.