Abraham Joshua Heschel Profile (PBS, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly)

A nine-minute segment about Rabbi Heschel which aired on PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. It is adapted from the work-in-progress feature-length documentary "Praying With My Legs," and features Bob Abernethy, anchor of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, as correspondent.

(c) 2008, Educational Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner of the 2009 Angel Award for Excellence in Media.

Produced by Steve Brand. Written by Bob Abernethy and Steve Brand.

For more information on the full-length film, please go to its website: http://www.prayingwithmylegs.com, where you can sign up to be on the film's mailing list for updates, and make a tax-deductible donation via Paypal if you like.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Praying With My Legs
• PBS
• Steve Brand
• Bob Abernethy
• Rabbi
• civil rights
• Vietnam War
• 2nd Vatican Council
• Pope
• Holocaust
• Selma
• Susannah Heschel
• Arthur Green
• Edward Kaplan
• Daniel Berrigan
• Arnold Eisen
• Andrew Young
• Peter Geffen
• Sylvia Heschel
• Morton Leifman
• Hasidism
• I Asked For Wonder
• The Sabbath
• Man Is Not Alone
• God In Search of Man
• The Prophets
• Who Is Man?
• Ineffable
• mystic

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