When Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in Warsaw in 1907, his future was easy to predict. He was destined to become a rabbi, a Jewish community leader, a thinker about God and Torah. After all, his ...

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s generated many iconic photographs. They vividly portray an oppressed minority proudly and valiantly protesting for their rights.. One of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor “like a drunken man” (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah “walked naked and barefoot three years” ...

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The cry of the prophet is a cry against injustice; a cry against cruelty of any sort. It’s the cry of the oppressed, the persecuted, the marginalized, the poor, the sick, the humiliated, the despised.