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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Abraham Joshua Heschel | PBS

Duration: 08:44
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1120
Broadcast Date: Jan. 18, 2008

Heschel is widely considered to be one of the greatest American religious figures of the last century -- a rabbi, theologian, social activist and mystic admired by Christians as well as Jews.

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