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Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. [1]

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Abraham (given name)

This is a list of people named after Abraham, the Biblical patriarch (Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom); the father of the Abrahamic Religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam: As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means "High Father" - "av" (אב) "father", "ram" (רם) "high" - with the "ha" (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God.

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Abraham Cronbach

Abraham Cronbach (February 15, 1882 – April 2, 1965) was an American Rabbi and teacher, known as a pacifist.

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Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School (AJHS) is a pluralistic Nursery to 12 Jewish day school in New York City named in memory of one of the great Jewish leaders, teachers, and activists of the 20th century and dedicated to the values that characterized Rabbi Heschel’s life: intellectual exploration, integrity, love of the Jewish people and tradition, and a commitment to social justice.

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Adopt-a-Highway

The Adopt-a-Highway program, and the very similar Sponsor-a-Highway, are promotional campaigns undertaken by U.S. states, provinces and territories of Canada, in addition to national governments outside North America to encourage volunteers to keep a section of a highway free from litter.

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African American–Jewish relations

African Americans and Jewish Americans have interacted throughout much of the history of the United States.

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Alexander Burnstein

Alexander J. Burnstein (1900-1980), a rabbinic ordinand of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was a writer, editor and interfaith leader.

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America in the King Years

America in the King Years is a three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch, which he wrote between 1982 and 2006.

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American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.

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Apta (Hasidic dynasty)

Apt is a Hasidic dynasty within Haredi Judaism.

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Arlington Ridge Road

Arlington Ridge Road (originally known as Mount Vernon Avenue) is a street through residential areas and business districts in Arlington County, Virginia in the United States.

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Arnold Jacob Wolf

Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf (March 19, 1924 – December 23, 2008) was an American Reform Rabbi, and a longtime champion of peace and progressive politics.

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Aron Brand

Aron Brand-Auraban (21 February 1910 – 22 April 1977) was an Israeli pediatric cardiologist.

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Arthur Green

Arthur Green, whose Hebrew name is אברהם יצחק גרין, born March 21, 1941, is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian.

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Augustin Bea

Augustin Bea, S.J. (28 May 1881 – 16 November 1968), was a German Jesuit priest and scholar at the Pontifical Gregorian University specialising in biblical studies and biblical archeology.

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Basya Schechter

Basya Schechter is an American Jewish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, cantor, and music teacher.

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Behaalotecha

Behaalotecha, Beha'alotecha, Beha'alothekha, or Behaaloscha (— Hebrew for "when you step up," the 11th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 36th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Numbers.

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Beshalach

Beshalach, Beshallach, or Beshalah (— Hebrew for "when let go," the second word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the sixteenth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Exodus.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Book of Jeremiah

The Book of Jeremiah (ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ; abbreviated Jer. or Jerm. in citations) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.

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Brandeis-Bardin Institute

The Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University is a Jewish retreat located since 1947 in the northeastern Simi Hills, in the city of Simi Valley, California.

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Byron Sherwin

Rabbi Byron Lee Sherwin (February 18, 1946 – May 22, 2015) was a Jewish scholar and author with expertise in theology, inter-religious dialogue, mysticism and Jewish ethics.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside North America) is a major Jewish denomination, which views Jewish Law, or Halakha, as both binding and subject to historical development.

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Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet.

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David Ellenson

David Ellenson is an American rabbi and academic who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism.

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David Lieber

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David Novak

David Novak (born 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law (Halakha).

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David Pardo (Italian rabbi)

David Pardo was an 18th-century Italian rabbi and liturgical poet who lived for some time in Sarajevo, Bosnia and in Jerusalem.

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Deaths in March 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.

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Devekut

Devekut, debekuth, deveikuth or deveikus (Heb. דבקות; Mod. Heb. "dedication", traditionally "clinging on" to God) is a Jewish concept referring to closeness to God.

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Diana Mara Henry

Diana Mara Henry (born June 20, 1948, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American freelance photographer and photojournalist.

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Ecotheology

Ecotheology is a form of constructive theology that focuses on the interrelationships of religion and nature, particularly in the light of environmental concerns.

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Edgewater Beach Hotel

The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox.

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Eikev

Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, Aikev, or Eqeb (— Hebrew for "if," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 46th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Deuteronomy.

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Elémire Zolla

Elémire Zolla (9 July 1926 – 29 May 2002) was an Italian essayist, philosopher and historian of religion.

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Emor

Emor (— Hebrew for "speak," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 31st weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Leviticus.

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Everett Gendler

Everett Gendler (born August 8, 1928) is an American rabbi, known for his involvement in progressive causes, including the civil rights movement, Jewish nonviolence, and the egalitarian Jewish Havurah movement.

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Gates of Prayer

Gates of Prayer, the New Union Prayer Book (GOP) is a Reform Jewish siddur that was announced in October 1975 as a replacement for the 80-year-old Union Prayer Book (UPB), incorporating more Hebrew content and was updated to be more accessible to modern worshipers.

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George L. McLaird

George McLaird (born September 17, 1939, in Winterset, Iowa) is an american author and a presbyterian pastor.

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God in Judaism

In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.

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God in Search of Man

God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism is a work on Jewish philosophy by Rabbi Dr.

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Gordon Tucker

Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism.

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Granada Hills, Los Angeles

Granada Hills is a lightly populated, highly diverse and high-income neighborhood.

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Hanoch Albeck

Hanoch Albeck (Hebrew: חנוך אלבק) (August 7, 1890 - January 9, 1972) was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Harold Louis Ginsberg

Harold Louis Ginsberg, (December 6, 1903 – 1990), commonly known as H. L. Ginsberg, was a professor of rabbinic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City in the 20th century.

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Harold M. Schulweis

Harold M. Schulweis (April 14, 1925 – December 18, 2014) was an American rabbi and author.

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Hasidic philosophy

Hasidic philosophy or Hasidism (חסידות), alternatively transliterated as Hasidut or Chassidus, consists of the teachings of the Hasidic movement, which are the teachings of the Hasidic rebbes, often in the form of commentary on the Torah (the Five books of Moses) and Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism).

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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (also known as HUC, HUC-JIR, and The College-Institute) is a Jewish seminary with several locations in the United States and one location in Jerusalem.

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Hershel Matt

Rabbi Hershel Jonah Matt (July 11, 1922 – December 26, 1987) was a rabbi, scholar and professor.

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Historicity of the Bible

The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible's "acceptability as a history," in the words of Thomas L. Thompson, a scholar who has written widely on this topic as it relates to the Old Testament.

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History of the Jews in the United States

The history of the Jews in the United States has been part of the American national fabric since colonial times.

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Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums

Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, or Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, was a rabbinical seminary, established in Berlin in 1872 and closed down by the Nazi government of Germany in 1942.

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Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin), is a university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

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Ilya Schor

Ilya Schor (16 April 1904, in Zloczow – 7 June 1961, in New York City) was a multi-faceted artist, a painter, jeweler, engraver, sculptor, and renowned artist of Judaica.

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Index of Jewish history-related articles

Zadok · ZAKA · Zealot · Zebah · Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) · Zechariah Ben Jehoiada · Zechariah of Israel · Zefat · Zephaniah · Zikhron Ya'akov · Zion · Zion Mule Corps · Zionism · Zionology · Zohar Jewish history Jewish history topics Category:Judaism-related lists.

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Index of philosophy articles (A–C)

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Index of philosophy of religion articles

This is a list of articles in philosophy of religion.

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Index of sociopolitical thinkers

The following is an index of sociopolitical thinkers listed by the first name.

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Influence and reception of Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard's influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods.

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January 11

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Jeremiah

Jeremiah (יִרְמְיָהוּ, Modern:, Tiberian:; Ἰερεμίας; إرميا meaning "Yah Exalts"), also called the "Weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).

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Jewish existentialism

Jewish existentialism is a category of work by Jewish authors dealing with existentialist themes and concepts (e.g. debate about the existence of God and the meaning of human existence), and intended to answer theological questions that are important in Judaism.

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Jewish mysticism

Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), distinguishes between different forms of mysticism across different eras of Jewish history.

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Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a religious education organization located in New York, New York.

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Jewish views on religious pluralism

Religious pluralism is a set of religious world views that hold that one's religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and thus recognizes that some level of truth and value exists in other religions.

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John L. McKenzie

John Lawrence McKenzie (October 9, 1910 – March 2, 1991) was born on October 9, 1910, in Brazil, Indiana, the first of the six children of Myra (Daly) and Harry McKenzie.

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John Steinbruck

John Frederick Steinbruck (October 5, 1930 – March 1, 2015) was an ordained Lutheran minister who served for 28 years (1970–1997) as the senior pastor of Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington, D.C.Castaneda, Ruben, "," The Washington Post, February 6, 1997.

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José Faur

José Faur (חכם יוסף פאור הלוי) is a Sephardi Hakham (rabbi), teacher and scholar.

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Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 - April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Kabbalah

Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה, literally "parallel/corresponding," or "received tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism.

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Kedoshim

Kedoshim, K'doshim, or Qedoshim (— Hebrew for "holy ones," the 14th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 30th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Leviticus.

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Ki Tissa

Ki Tisa, Ki Tissa, Ki Thissa, or Ki Sisa (— Hebrew for "when you take," the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parashah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Exodus.

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Kirk J. Schneider

Kirk J. Schneider is a psychologist and psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of existential-humanistic therapy,Aanstoos, C. Serlin, I., & Greening, T. (2000).

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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht (lit. "Crystal Night") or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome (Yiddish: קרישטאָל נאַכט krishtol nakt), was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians.

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List of ethicists

List of ethicists including religious or political figures recognized by those outside their tradition as having made major contributions to ideas about ethics, or raised major controversies by taking strong positions on previously unexplored problems.

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954.

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List of Jewish mysticism scholars

Academic-historical research into Jewish mysticism is a modern multi-discipline university branch of Jewish studies.

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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List of philosophers (D–H)

Philosophers (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically.

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List of philosophers born in the 20th century

Philosophers born in the 20th century (and others important in the history of philosophy) listed alphabetically.

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List of philosophy anniversaries

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List of Polish rabbis

The rise of Hasidic Judaism within Poland's borders and beyond has had a great influence on the rise of neo Haredi Judaism all over the world, with a continuous influence that has been felt from the inception of the Hasidic movements and its dynasties by famous rebbes until the present time.

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List of rabbis

This is a list of prominent rabbis.

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Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon (Mōšeh bēn-Maymūn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn), commonly known as Maimonides (Μαϊμωνίδης Maïmōnídēs; Moses Maimonides), and also referred to by the acronym Rambam (for Rabbeinu Mōšeh bēn Maimun, "Our Rabbi Moses son of Maimon"), was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.

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Makuya

, based at the Tokyo Bible Seminary, is a religious movement in Japan founded in 1948 by Ikurō Teshima.

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Malachi Martin

Malachi Brendan Martin (Irish: Maolsheachlainn Breandán Ó Máirtín; July 23, 1921 – July 27, 1999), occasionally writing under the pseudonym Michael Serafian, was an Irish Catholic priest and writer on the Catholic Church.

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Marc H. Tanenbaum

Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum (1925–1992) was a human rights and social justice activist who was known for building bridges with other faith communities to advance mutual understanding and cooperation and to eliminate entrenched stereotypes, particularly those rooted in religious teachings.

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Marshall Meyer

Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer (March 25, 1930 – December 29, 1993) was an American Conservative rabbi who became a recognized international human rights activist while living and working in Argentina from 1958 to 1984, during the period of the "Dirty War" in the 1970s.

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Martin Buber

Martin Buber (מרטין בובר; Martin Buber; מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.

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Mathew Ahmann

Mathew H. Ahmann (September 10, 1931 – December 31, 2001) was an American Catholic layman and civil rights activist.

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Maurice Eisendrath

Maurice Nathan Eisendrath (July 10, 1902 – November 11, 1973) was a leader of American Reform Judaism, the head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1943 until his death, an author, and an activist, particularly active in the U.S. Anti-war Movement of the 1960s.

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Maurice Stanley Friedman

Maurice Stanley Friedman (December 29, 1921 – September 25, 2012) was an interdisciplinary, interreligious philosopher of dialogue.

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Meir Katzenellenbogen

Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen (c. 1482 – 12 January 1565) (also, Meir of Padua, or Maharam Padua, Hebrew: מאיר בן יצחק קצנלנבויגן) was an Italian rabbi born in Katzenelnbogen.

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Mishpatim

Mishpatim (— Hebrew for "laws," the second word of the parashah) is the eighteenth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Exodus.

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Mitchell Thomashow

Mitchell S. Thomashow is an author, educator, environmentalist, theoretician, and philosopher specializing in bridging the practices of ecology and spirituality.

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Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein (born February 23, 1940) is an American literary scholar, cultural historian, professor, essayist, book critic, and public intellectual.

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National Socialist Movement (United States)

The National Socialist Movement (NSM) is a neo-Nazi political party based in the United States in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

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Neo-Hasidism

Neo-Hasidism is a name given to contemporary Jewish trends of a significant fusing or revival of interest in the teachings of Kabbalah and Hasidism by members of other existing Jewish movements.

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New Covenant

The New Covenant (Hebrew; Greek διαθήκη καινή diatheke kaine) is a biblical interpretation originally derived from a phrase in the Book of Jeremiah, in the Hebrew Bible.

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New Jewish Agenda

New Jewish Agenda (NJA) was a multi-issue membership organization active in the United States between 1980 and 1992 and made up of about 50 local chapters.

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Pardes (Jewish exegesis)

"Pardes" refers to (types of) approaches to biblical exegesis in rabbinic Judaism or to interpretation of text in Torah study.

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Park Avenue Christian Church

The Park Avenue Christian Church is located at 1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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Paul Brody

Paul Brody (born in 1961 in Seattle) is an US-American sound installation artist, composer, trumpeter, and writer based in Berlin.

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Philip R. Alstat

Philip Reis Alstat (1891–1976) was a well-known American Conservative rabbi, teacher, chaplain, speaker and writer.

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Pinchas Hacohen Peli

Pinchas Hacohen Peli (1930-1989) was an Israeli modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet, and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy.

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Process theology

Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) and John B. Cobb (b. 1925).

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Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.

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Religion and environmentalism

Religion and environmentalism is an emerging interdisciplinary subfield in the academic disciplines of religious studies, religious ethics, the sociology of religion, and theology amongst others, with environmentalism and ecological principles as a primary focus.

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Revelation

In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.

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Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus (May 14, 1936 – January 8, 2009) was a prominent Christian cleric (first as an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and later as a Roman Catholic priest) and writer.

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Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac (Рома́н Соломо́нович Вишня́к; August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

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Sage Chapel

Sage Chapel is the non-denominational chapel on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State and serves as the final resting place of the university's founders, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, and their wives.

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Samuel Lucien Terrien

Samuel Lucien Terrien (March 27, 1911- February 6, 2002) was a French-American Protestant theologian and biblical scholar.

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SCOPE Project

The Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was a voter registration civil rights initiative conducted from 1965-66 in 120 counties in six southern states.

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Selma (film)

Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb.

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Selma to Montgomery marches

The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.

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Selma, Alabama

Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west.

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Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano

Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano (Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, also known as the Marshall T. Meyer Latin American Rabbinical Seminary) is a Jewish religious, cultural, and academic center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose primary purpose is to educate and ordain rabbis from Latin America who will help to strengthen and sustain Jewish communities throughout the region.

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Seymour Siegel

Seymour Siegel (September 12, 1927 - February 24, 1988), often referred to as "an architect of Conservative Jewish theology," was an American Conservative rabbi, a Professor of Ethics and Theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the 1983-1984 Executive Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,"Ari L. Goldman, "Rabbi Seymour Siegel, 61, Leader In Conservative Judaism, Is Dead," The New York Times, Feb 25, 1988.

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Shlach

Shlach, Shelach, Sh'lah, Shlach Lecha, or Sh'lah L'kha (or — Hebrew for "send", "send to you", or "send for yourself") is the 37th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Numbers.

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Sienno, Masovian Voivodeship

Sienno is a village in Lipsko County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Solomon Souza

Solomon Souza (born 1993) is a British-Israeli street artist.

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Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership

Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership is an educational center in Chicago, Illinois.

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Strauss

Strauss, Strauß or Straus is a common Germanic surname.

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Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry

The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, also known by its acronym SSSJ, was founded in 1964 by Jacob Birnbaum to be a spearhead of the U.S. movement for rights of the Soviet Jewry.

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Susannah Heschel

Susannah Heschel is an American scholar, public intellectual, and professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.

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The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt

Edited by Ruth Andrew Ellenson, The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt is an anthology featuring work by authors including Aimee Bender.

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The Suffering of God

The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective is a book by Old Testament scholar Terence E. Fretheim.

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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

The Sunflower is a book on the Holocaust by Simon Wiesenthal, in which he reminisces his experience with a terminally wounded Nazi.

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Tikkun (magazine)

Tikkun is a quarterly interfaith Jewish left-progressive magazine, published in the United States, that analyzes American and Israeli culture, politics, religion, and history in the English language.

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United Synagogue Youth

United Synagogue Youth (USY) is the youth movement of USCJ (United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism).

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Unity of opposites

The unity of opposites is the central category of dialectics, said to be related to the notion of non-duality in a deep sense.

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Va'etchanan

Va'etchanan (— Hebrew for "and I pleaded," the first word in the parashah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Deuteronomy.

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Vayakhel

Vayakhel, Wayyaqhel, VaYakhel, Va-Yakhel, Vayak'hel, Vayak'heil, or Vayaqhel (– Hebrew for "and he assembled," the first word in the parashah) is the 22nd weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 10th in the Book of Exodus.

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W. D. Davies

William David Davies (1911–12 June 2001), often cited as W. D.

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Wolfe Kelman

Wolfe Kelman (November 27, 1923 – June 26, 1990) was an Austrian-born American Rabbi and leader in the Conservative Judaism in the United States who never led a congregation, serving for decades as a mentor to hundreds of rabbis in his role as the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, where he also prepared the initial steps for the rabbinic ordination of women in the Conservative movement.

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Yitro (parsha)

Yitro, Yithro, Yisroi, Yisrau, or Yisro (Hebrew for the name "Jethro," the second word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the seventeenth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the Book of Exodus.

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Yitzchok Hutner

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1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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1972 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1972.

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1972 in philosophy

1972 in philosophy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel

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