Honoring Rabbi Arthur Waskow – activist, pioneer and prophet
The progressive Jewish leader fused radical activism with transformative spirituality
Arthur Waskow
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Fast Forward 500 Rabbis And Jewish Leaders Call For Action Against Climate Change
(JTA) — Five hundred rabbis and other Jewish leaders from around the world are calling for climate change action. The letter released earlier this month was signed by rabbis and leaders spanning the denominational spectrum — from Orthodox to Reform and secular — and from countries including the United States, Canada, England, Israel and Brazil,…
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Fast Forward 86-Year-Old Rabbi Arrested Protesting ICE
Rabbi Arthur Waskow was arrested on Wednesday for blocking the entrance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Philadelphia in protest of President Trump’s border policies. Waskow, one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, was demonstrating with the group ElderWitness and Friends, Public News Service reported. Around 100 people were present at…
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Fast Forward 85-Year-Old Rabbi Arrested While Protesting Trump Immigration Policy
An 85-year-old rabbi was arrested Friday while protesting outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia, according to the Slate news website. Rabbi Arthur Waskow, one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, was detained along with six other people by police for temporarily blocking access to the ICE office. Rabbi Waskow is…
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News Jewish Groups Warm to Climate Change Battle
By day, Janna Diamond works for HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. At night she battles climate change. In recent months, the 29-year-old activist has been staying up late sending emails, attending planning meetings and tirelessly trying to recruit Jewish sponsors for the September 21 “People’s Climate March” in New York City. Her work —…
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Opinion ‘Shvartze’ and Why We Should Know Better
One day, as I was writing at my desk, the phone rang. From Washington, it was the leader of a Muslim civil-rights organization on the line. “Rabbi, one of the big airlines just threw a number of imams off the plane because some passengers thought they looked suspicious,” he told me. “We would like to…
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Culture Today’s Noah
What if Noah had been an exemplary spiritual leader and not just, as the Torah tells us, a righteous person by the standards of his own generation? Picture Noah as a true prophet of his time, a man who knows that God is about to destroy the world. Such a person would have done far…
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The Schmooze Sun Sets on ‘Israel Horizons’
If Jews are the people of the magazine, there is now one fewer in the tribe. Meretz USA has pulled the plug on Israel Horizons, a voice of left-wing Zionism for more than a half-century. The final issue of the 58-year-old quarterly rolls off the presses this month. The periodical had already been limping along,…
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