Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership

Studying Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who was a crucial companion and often teacher to King, and who was co-chair of Clergy & Laity Concerned About vietnam when MLK spoke and when he was killed, and who himself was bitterly attacked for getting involved in Vietnam peace work just as King was, and whose support buoyed King (and vice versa) in that path, and who wrote brilliantly about Shabbat as a profound challenge to materialism, is valuable to opponents of racism, militarism, and materialism.

Relearning Heschel, Rebirthing King, Re-Inaugurating America:
Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Day
As a new government takes office,
January 19-20, 2009

As Barack Obama becomes President and a new Congress takes office in January 2009, there is a remarkable opportunity to bring together large sections of American society to reflect on our history and our future. The opportunity is strengthened by the fact that the day before Inauguration day (Tuesday, January 20) is Martin Luther King's Birthday. And January 14 is the yohrzeit (death-anniversary) of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Dr. King's close friend and ally.