Abraham Joshua Heschel
A new documentary takes a deep dive into the ancient and modern practice of Sabbath
By Yonat Shimron — May 22, 2023
(RNS) — Martin Doblmeier's latest documentary takes viewers to various religious communities to illustrate their Sabbath practices.
Why a Florida school district banned a book about Shabbat
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 16, 2022
(RNS) — A Florida school district knows the truth about Shabbat. It is subversive.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a spiritual radical. A new documentary shows he’s more timely than ever
By Yonat Shimron — May 3, 2021
(RNS) — A Polish-born Jew from a long line of Hasidic rabbis, he immigrated to America in 1940 and quickly rose to become a leading public intellectual — a civil rights crusader, a champion of interfaith dialogue and an opponent of the Vietnam War.
He claimed white Jews gained from white supremacy. Now he’s more popular than ever.
By Yonat Shimron — March 12, 2021
(RNS) — Historian Marc Dollinger is on a quest to analyze Jewish complicity in racism.
How Heschel and King bonded over the Hebrew prophets
By A. James Rudin — February 11, 2021
(RNS) — Black History Month is a fitting moment to recall a brief, remarkable friendship that permanently transformed America.
The Talmud has a lesson for our cancel-culture world
By Will Berkovitz — July 17, 2020
(RNS) — As our ancient rabbis understood, debate — and the people who engage in it — is vital to advancing society.
Thou shalt not be comfortable
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 8, 2020
In our time, the best life goal is to be maladjusted.
Why ‘Jacob the bar mitzvah boy’ mattered
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 23, 2017
A regular and sweet SNL skit taught us something important about American Judaism.
You need to see ‘A Serious Man’ again
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 16, 2017
Do rabbis still have things to teach? Ask the Coen brothers.
When Jews and Muslims really speak to each other
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 17, 2017
When Jews and Muslims get real with each other, God smiles. So does Allah.
What Obama really said at Hiroshima
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 31, 2016
Obama taught something very powerful at Hiroshima. It was also something profoundly Jewish.
Why I will skip Donald Trump’s speech to AIPAC
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 16, 2016
I helped organize my fellow rabbis to spurn the speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference. Sometimes silence is a scream.
COMMENTARY: On the front lines in Mississippi
By A. James Rudin — May 1, 2014
(RNS) If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel were the “generals” in the civil rights war of the 1960s, I was a foot soldier in the army of pastors, priests and rabbis.
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