Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel presenting the "Judaism and World Peace Award" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in December, 1965. (Wikimedia Commons) The highlights of these themes may entice readers ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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. The letter ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As my Jewish friends and colleagues celebrated the Holy Day of Yom Kippur, I am reminded of one of the greatest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Far too often, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is used to justify an attitude he never held: complacency. Whenever there is a civil rights anniversary or friction in white Jewish and Black relations, ...