Talk:Abraham Joshua Heschel/Archive 1

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Was Heschel a Orthodox Jew in observance like Saul Lieberman? --Yodamace1 18:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Rewording needed
Can someone reword this sentence, to make it simpler and perhaps even gramatically/factually correct? I don't know anything about the subject, and was just reading the article, and found the sentence very awkward, especially the latter part:

"His books contain civil but pointed rejoinders towards those in Reform Judaism who no longer held that Jewish law was normative, and also towards those in Orthodox Judaism, who Heschel held valued legalism over the spirit of the law."

Thanks!Starwarp2k2 15:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

More Sources required concerning the relationship between Mordecai Kaplan and Heschel
"Heschel was particularly looked down upon by his colleague Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, and many students who attended JTS in the 50s sympathized with Kaplan over Heschel.

The source for this is Scult, Mel. 'Kaplan's Heschel :  a view from the Kaplan diary.'   In: Conservative Judaism, 54,4 (2002) 3-14.

For balance info is required concerning Heschel's view of Kaplan which was nuanced. A case of being friends with Kaplan despite his views. The same could be said regarding Kaplan vis-a-vis Heschel. Perhaps someone should have a look at

Kaplan, E. K. (2007) Spiritual radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972‎ (Yale University Press) over a google books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=OkDwcMt1jeIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0

(Kyuss2009 (talk) 15:55, 15 September 2009 (UTC))