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; ...

(RNS) — Abraham Joshua Heschel is arguably the most important American Jewish rabbi of the 20th century. But he is also one of the most complicated. A Polish-born Jew from a long line of Hasidic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shortly before the six-day Arab-Israeli war in 1967, a well-meaning Christian friend asked Jewish Scholar Abraham J. Heschel why he was “so dreadfully upset.” Heschel thought for a moment. Then he ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron ... Rabbi Seth Sternstein of Temple El Emeth in Liberty looks at a computer image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, after Sternstein’s ...

Pope Francis has welcomed the establishment of a Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations in Poland and called for a deepening appreciation of a common heritage. The Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic ...

Dr. Abraham J. Heschel, professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary, was accused of “demagoguery” in making “unfounded and irresponsible charges” in his criticism of ...

The Journal of Church and State is concerned with what has been called the "greatest subject in the history of the West." It seeks to stimulate interest, dialogue, research, and publication in the ...