"In what was initially seen as a radical fusion of Judaism and political activism, he engaged in civil disobedience - he was arrested more than two dozen times, including outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during the first Trump administration - and wrote books that bridged the secular and spiritual, with titles including "Handbook for Heretics and Prophets: A New Torah for a New World" and "Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life.""
"Ordained at age 62, Rabbi Waskow was named one of the country's 50 most influential rabbis by Newsweek in 2007. Eight years later, the Jewish news site the Forward listed him as one of America's most inspiring rabbis. "His was not a polite liberalism," rabbi and journalist Jay Michaelson wrote in a tribute this week for the Forward, adding that even before he was ordained,"
Arthur Waskow evolved from a policy wonk into an activist rabbi who helped build the modern Jewish social justice movement into a national force. He founded and nurtured organizations including the Shalom Center and T'ruah to combine spiritual practice with political strategy on climate change, Palestinian rights, racism and nuclear weapons. He engaged in civil disobedience and was arrested more than two dozen times, including at an ICE facility during the Trump administration. He wrote books bridging secular and spiritual life, was ordained at 62, received national recognition, and died Oct. 20 in Philadelphia at 92 from chronic respiratory failure.
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