1. Arthur Ocean Waskow was born on Arthur Irwin Waskow, October 12,1933 and is an American author, political activist, and rabbi associated with the Jewish Renewal movement.
17 Facts About Arthur Waskow
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Arthur Waskow received a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1954 and a Ph.
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Arthur Waskow worked from 1959 to 1961 as legislative assistant to Congressman Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin.
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Arthur Waskow was a senior fellow at the Peace Research Institute from 1961 through 1963.
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Arthur Waskow joined Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin and helped to found the Institute for Policy Studies in 1963, and he served as resident fellow until 1977.
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In 1968 Waskow was elected an alternate delegate from the District of Columbia to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Arthur Waskow's delegation was pledged to support Robert F Kennedy, and after Kennedy's assassination, Waskow proposed and the delegation agreed to nominate Reverend Channing Phillips, chair of the delegation, for President, the first Black American to be nominated at a major party convention.
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Arthur Waskow was a contributing editor to Ramparts magazine, which published his "Freedom Seder" in 1969.
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Since 1969, Arthur Waskow has taken a leadership role in the Jewish Renewal movement.
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From 1982 to 1989, Arthur Waskow was a member of the faculty of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he taught courses on contemporary theology and practical rabbinics.
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Arthur Waskow taught in the religion departments of Swarthmore College, Temple University, Drew University, and Vassar College.
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Arthur Waskow founded The Shalom Center in 1983 and serves as its director.
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Arthur Waskow was ordained a rabbi in 1995 by a transdenominational beth din made up of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, with Lubavitch Hasidic lineage; Rabbi Max Ticktin, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary ; Rabbi Laura Geller, ordained by the Hebrew Union College ; and feminist theologian Dr Judith Plaskow.
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Arthur Waskow was the managing co-editor of Trees, Earth, and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology, and he edited Torah of the Earth: 4,000 Years of Jewish Thought on Ecology.
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In 2010, Arthur Waskow joined in founding the Green Hevra, a network of Eco-Jewish organizations, and served on its stewardship committee till 2013.
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Arthur Waskow is a practitioner of nonviolent civil disobedience who has been arrested in climate protests in the US Capitol, at the White House, and at Philadelphia conclaves of fracking corporate leaders.
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Arthur Waskow continues to be a prolific writer and speaker in the public sphere on the topic of social justice through a Jewish Renewal lens.