The Radical Audacity of Rabbi Heschel

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel fled Nazi Germany and became an authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America. His book, The Prophets, inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. to invite him to take a role in the Civil Rights Movement. Heschel was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, an advocate for Soviet Jewry and a pioneer of interfaith dialogue. Join the filmmaker Martin Doblmeier and Heschel’s biographer Rabbi Shai Held, for a riveting film-and-discussion program moderated by Dr. Shulamit Reinharz.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ March 22-25, watch the film Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, March 24 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

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Martin Doblmeier, right, has produced and directed 35 feature length documentary films on famous figures of our time. His subjects have included Nobel Laureates Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Lech Walesa; civil rights leaders Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson; Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and many others. Some of his most celebrated films include Bonhoeffer, the story of the great German theologian and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Power of Forgiveness, an exploration into the most difficult challenge all of us will face at some point in our lives, and Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story. Among his many awards are three regional Emmy Awards and three honorary degrees.

Rabbi Shai Held, left, is considered one of the most influential Jewish thinkers and leaders in America. He is President and Dean of the Hadar Institute in New York City. Rabbi Held received the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education, and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the most influential rabbis in America and to The Forward‘s list of the most prominent Jews in the world. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence and The Heart of Torah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion.  His latest book, Judaism is About Love, has been published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Dr. Shulamit Reinharz, who will moderate, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and the forthcoming Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir in Four Hands. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.

Registration for this program is closed.