“I think Abraham Joshua Heschel, the rabbi who said, when he marched with Dr. King, he felt like his legs were praying, I think he and Dr. King are smiling,” Warnock said on CNN. A graffiti design of ...

Whether it was protesting alongside his friend, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., championing the cause of Soviet Jews or wondering what kind of God could have permitted the Holocaust, Abraham Joshua ...

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Rabbi Shai Held offers an introduction to a giant of 20th-century American Jewish thought and activism. I confess that Heschel’s lavish, epigrammatic prose and devotion to the living reality of God ...

An engaging profile of one of the 20th century’s most prominent Jewish theologians and philosophers. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called Heschel a "great prophet" and their social justice views aligned; ...

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel presenting the "Judaism and World Peace Award" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in December, 1965. (Wikimedia Commons) The highlights of these themes may entice readers ...