Open thread: Who are the two most influential Jewish social justice theologians?

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Jo Ellen Kaiser, editor in cheif of Zeek Magazine, covered the burgeoning Jewish social justice sector for Sojourner’s Magazine, a liberal Christian mag. Each day for a week, we’ll host an open thread on one element of the article on how we see ourselves, our movement, our thinkers, and our values.

Jo Ellen claimed that all contemporary faith-based Jewish social justice thought can be traced to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and that Heschel’s two most influential disciples were “undoubtedly” Rabbi Michael Lerner and Rabbi Arthur Waskow.

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