(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This weekend of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, religious services are planned around the country to remember him and his legacy. Some of them will be in synagogues that are ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel. He was a master of English prose and a profound Jewish thinker, but this descendant of the Maggid of Mezeritch, the Rizhiner Rebbe, Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

(UNDATED) Some musicians and artists have the talent to “cross over” and reach audiences beyond ethnic, racial and national borders. But few spiritual leaders significantly influence other communities ...

“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 ...