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Audio: The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Earlier this week a great podcast showed up in my feed reader. It was for a recent episode of NPR’s Speaking of Faith. The episode was all about the one and only, Abraham Joshua Heschel. It’s a mix of live recoding’s of Heschel taken from various lectures he gave, along with an in depth [...]
What’s Up With Reform Judaism & Where is it Headed?
This weekend I read a fascinating (not to mention extremely lonnnnng) article on the Reform Movement. The piece which appears in the latest issue of Commentary Magazine, looks at some of the URJ’s current successes, opportunities and of course, problems. The article was written by Jack Wertheimer a professor of American Jewish history at the [...]
