(JTA) — Abraham Joshua Heschel, whose 50th yahrzeit we marked this past year, was for almost 30 years a member of the faculty at The Jewish Theological Seminary, which I lead. There he inspired many ...

(RNS) — In his book “The Sabbath,” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that Jews did not build great cathedrals into space. Their great accomplishment was a cathedral in time — the Shabbat, or 24-hour ...

Dialogue with the Christian community is critical again. A leading Haredi rabbi recently advised a colleague of mine to ...

“Nostra Aetate,” released on Oct. 28, 1965, was the Second Vatican Council’s “Declaration on Non-Christian Religions.” The ...

Suffering is part of life. It’s also a central theme in the Jewish faith. Indeed, every summer, Jews commemorate two calamitous days in our history by abstaining from food and drink. On the ...

This week’s Torah portion offers clues to getting though a painful moment in Jewish history, writes the executive vice president of Hadar. (JTA) — Abraham saw a world that was burning. A vivid midrash ...

What will it take for us to overcome this violent world? Now that the west appears mired in a long conflict with Islamic terrorism, I hear comments like this from skeptics: “Religion leads to ...

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” ...

The letter, signed by the Senate's entire Jewish caucus and others, cites Heschel's alliance with Martin Luther King Jr. in advancing the cause of civil rights. The elimination of Abraham Joshua ...