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This resource offers insights and recommendations for understanding and addressing bigotry targeting Muslims, Jews, and Arabs and Palestinians (who are often Christian), both in this moment and going forward. This guide is intended to prompt discussion and reflection on the language being used and how we build relationships in this particular time.

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Book Launch! "My Legs Were Praying: A Biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel"

Join us on Zoom on Thursday, May 8 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the release of Rabbi Or Rose’s new book My Legs Were Praying: A Biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel (Monkfish). Dr. Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and daughter of Rabbi Heschel, will offer opening remarks. Dr. Irvin Scott, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Dr. Celene Ibrahim, faculty at the Groton School’s Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will offer responses. Dr. Esther Stern-Bloom of Temple Beth Hillel in Wynnewood, PA will offer a personal reminiscence of her time with the Heschel family in New York City. The program will be moderated by Hebrew College Vice President Dr. Susie Tanchel. This event will take place on Zoom.

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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a gifted Jewish theologian and scholar, as well as an impassioned social activist. His reputation has only grown since his death over fifty years ago.
What can we learn from the unflagging efforts of this revered twentieth century figure today?
How can we share key elements of his call for “moral grandeur and spiritual audacity” with younger people seeking to engage in spirituality grounded activism?
What might Heschel have to say to the next generation?
Interested in learning more about Abraham Joshua Heschel with Rabbi Rose?

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