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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel, far right, marches with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and others in Selma, Ala., in 1965, which is featured in Martin Doblmeier’s 2021 documentary “Spiritual ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel could have lived a comfortable life of academic pursuit. The product of two powerful Hasidic Jewish families in Warsaw, Poland, he was a contemporary of Martin Buber, the ...

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 ...

Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience provides a distinctive, interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the modern Jewish experience. Articles focus on topics pertinent to the ...