The members of the Religion Department strongly oppose US Executive Order, “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” issued on January 27, 2017.
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Susannah Heschel recalls that Dr. Martin Luthur King, Jr., " was always so gentle and kind and friendly to me.” And in an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Heschel, whose father marched with King, tells how the Hebrew Bible inspired civil rights activists in the ‘60s. (Congressman John Lewis circled.)
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Essays delivered at the symposium celebrating the work and retirement of Professor of Religion Emeritus Ronald M. Green, held at Dartmouth in May, 2015, have now been published in the current issue of The Journal of Religious Ethics.
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In opinion pieces in the Valley News and L.A. Times, Religion Professor Randall Balmer looks at the 1954 Johnson Amendment and recent proposals - primarily by the Religious Right - to repeal it.
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Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, has just been presented with the Leo Baeck Institute's prestigious Moses Mendelssohn Award for her "outstanding scholarly contributions" to the study of German-Jewish culture. "It's a great honor to receive an award for my scholarship from colleagues in my field," she says. "It's wonderful."
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