(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This coming December marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Abraham Joshua Heschel. Born in Warsaw in 1907, he experienced the full swath of European Jewish culture and religion before coming to ...

The chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary remembers when her father, a rabbi, joined the March on Washington, and the sermon he gave on moral clarity. (JTA) — Abraham Joshua Heschel, whose ...

“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 ...

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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 to ...