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Rabbi Arthur Waskow at a protest
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Honoring Rabbi Arthur Waskow – activist, pioneer and prophet

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. At the 2014 Climate March in New York City, […]

Waskow arrested at a protest
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Arthur Waskow, rabbi who brought spirituality to progressive activism, dies at 92

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Left: Jacob Kaplan-Lipkin as a bar mitzvah with Cantor Doron Shapira at Peninsula Sinai in Congregation, 2010. Right: Years later, he's getting ready to help lead Peninsula Sinai for the High Holidays.
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As a kid he loved his Foster City synagogue. This High Holidays, he’s going to help lead it.

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
Rabbi Jordan Hersh has been deployed as part of the Maryland Army National Guard to the U.S. Capitol since a mob of Trump supporters stormed it on Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Hersh)
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‘There was something holy about this space’: Meet a rabbi deployed to the US Capitol with the National Guard

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA January 18, 2021

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