A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Or Rose

About The Event:

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a gifted Jewish theologian and scholar, and an impassioned social activist. His reputation has grown significantly since his death over fifty years ago. What can we learn from the unflagging efforts of this revered twentieth-century figure today? How can we share key elements of his call for “moral grandeur and spiritual audacity” with younger people seeking to engage in spirituality-grounded activism? What might Heschel have to say to the next generation?

About The Speaker:

Rabbi Or N. Rose is the founding Director of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College. Before assuming this position in 2016, he worked at Hebrew College for over a decade, as a founding faculty member and Associate Dean for Informal Education of the Rabbinical School. Rabbi Rose was also one of the creators of CIRCLE, The Center for Interreligious & Community Leadership Education, cosponsored by Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School (2007-2017).

Rabbi Rose is the senior publisher of The Journal of Interreligious Studies and the co-editor of the award-winning anthology, My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis, 2012). In 2020, he co-edited the volume Rabbi Zalman Schachter: Essential Teachings (Orbis), and recently published With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps & Mistakes (Orbis, 2023).

He is currently completing two book projects: a contemporary multifaith commentary on the Psalms entitled The Book of Psalms Here & Now (Paraclete Press, 2024), and a revised version of his very first book (JPS, 2003), Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of Action, a biography for middle school readers, which is due to appear in the winter of 2024 with Monkfish.