永利国际app

description

Join us on Thursday, May 8 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the release of Rabbi Or Rose’s new book 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, who teaches for the Groton School鈥檚 Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will offer responses. This event will take place on Zoom.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a gifted Jewish theologian and scholar, as well as an impassioned social activist. His reputation has grown significantly 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 鈥渕oral grandeur and spiritual audacity鈥� with younger people seeking to engage in spirituality grounded activism? What might Heschel have to say to the next generation?

>> Read more

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)

On March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights organizers led 8,000 protesters on a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. They invited a distinguished group of national religious figures to join them in the front lines. One of these was Abraham Joshua Heschel 鈥� a gifted Jewish scholar, teacher, and speaker, whose recent book, The Prophets (1962) 鈥� a detailed study of the ancient biblical champions of justice and mercy 鈥� was a source of great inspiration to Dr. King and others.

As Heschel walked arm-in-arm with his colleagues, he was easy to spot in the crowd: He was a short, stocky man with flowing white hair, a bushy beard, who wore a dark yarmulke (Jewish head covering). Like the prophets of old, Heschel believed that standing up for others 鈥� particularly the most vulnerable members of society 鈥� is a sacred obligation. He later wrote, the religious person must seek to hold God and humankind 鈥渋n one thought at one time,鈥� suffering 鈥渉arm done to others,鈥� making 鈥渃ompassion鈥� one鈥檚 鈥済reatest passion.鈥�

Heschel first learned these essential values as a child in Eastern Europe. This little book, “” by Rabbi Or Rose, is his story.

About the Author: Rabbi Or Rose

Rabbi Or N. Rose is the founding Director of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of 永利国际app. Before assuming this position in 2016, he worked at 永利国际app for over a decade, including serving as a founding faculty member and Associate Dean for Informal Education of the Rabbinical School. Rabbi Rose was also one of the creators of CIRCLE, The Center for Interreligious & Community Leadership Education, cosponsored by 永利国际app and Andover Newton Theological School (2007-2017).

Rabbi Rose is the senior publisher of The Journal of Interreligious Studies, as well as co-editor of the award-winning anthology, My Neighbor鈥檚 Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis, 2012). In 2020, he co-edited the volume Rabbi Zalman Schachter: Essential Teachings (Orbis), and recently published With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps & Mistakes (Orbis, 2023).

Featured Speakers

Dr. Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, introduction
Dr. Irvin Scott, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, respondent
Dr. Celene Ibrahim, faculty in the Groton School鈥檚 Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, respondent

Adult Learning Opportunity with Rabbi Rose

Rabbi Rose also will be teaching a Tamid of 永利国际app adult learning online course this spring entitled “Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity”: Heschel鈥檚 Legacy Today.“

Course Description: In a famous telegram from 1963, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel called on religious and political leaders to exercise 鈥渕oral grandeur & spiritual audacity.鈥� The telegram was addressed to President John F. Kennedy and the context was the Civil Rights Movement. Since that time, Heschel鈥檚 legacy as an inspiring theologian and moral gadfly has grown tremendously. But what was the substance of his teachings? What Jewish and other sources did he draw on? How did he apply these teachings to the great social challenges of his day? Most importantly, what might we learn from Heschel鈥檚 extraordinary efforts as we attempt to participate in the healing of our world.

Instructor: Rabbi Or Rose
Dates & Time: 3 Thursdays: 5/15, 5/29 & 6/5 from 7-8:30 p.m. EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $150, financial aid is聽available
Sponsors: Tamid of 永利国际app & the Miller Center
Sign up: