by Jack Moline | Jan 12, 2021 | Opinion
Ten days before he was murdered, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, the gathering of rabbis from the Conservative Movement (denomination). He came at the invitation of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. The two men had become fast...
by James Gordon | Dec 16, 2019 | Opinion
I first came across the name Abraham Joshua Heschel while reading early books by Walter Brueggemann. It was Heschel’s work on the prophets he cited. It’s a remarkable exposition of the Hebrew mind in prophetic mode, when the world is looked at with God on the horizon,...
by James Gordon | Jul 10, 2017 | Opinion
Among my many books, and settled on my many shelves, are a number of writers whose work is a balm in Gilead – a tonic for the creeping weariness of spirits jaded by a world too much in our faces. Isaiah wrote some of his greatest poetry to a people in exile,...
