(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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Far too often ...

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 ...

In one of the first scenes in the new documentary, “Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story,” Rabbi Heschel is marching in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965, with Martin Luther King, Jr., ...

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 ...