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20 senators urge posthumous Medal of Freedom for Rabbi Abraham Heschel
A slate of 20 senators urged President Barack Obama to posthumously award Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the nation’s highest honors.
Channeling the spirit of Heschel to combat homelessness
If you go to synagogue around Martin Luther King Jr. Day, you will hear about Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Make it happen: Stop the gun violence
Jeb Bush, meet Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
An Urgent Call to Rescind Cornel West’s Invitation to Speak in memory of Rabbi Heschel
Cornel West is the antithesis of everything Rabbi Heschel represented.
The rabbi missing from ‘Selma’
Ava DuVernay\’s film \”Selma\” is a remarkable depiction of a key moment in the civil rights movement, highlighting the strategic savvy, relentless courage, and human frailties of Rev. Martin Luther King, his inner circle of advisors, local grassroots activists, and the many other crusaders who traveled to this rural town to draw attention to the need for a voting rights bill in 1965.
Jews and Liberalism: Is the civil religion going to last?
In what may be an urban legend, a rabbi with a luxurious beard is said to have sat on the left side in the Frankfurt Assembly during the Revolution of 1848. Asked why, he replied: “Because Jews have no right.”