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Vietnam and Israel (1965–1967)
2007
Overview
HESCHEL WAS THE MOST VISIBLE TRADITIONAL JEW IN THE ANTI–VIETNAM WAR movement. Like thousands of Americans he opposed U.S. military support for the corrupt Saigon regime, but his dissent had no institutional backing. He was not associated with Reform Judaism, whose leaders were in the vanguard of social action, civil rights, and the antiwar movement. Orthodox rabbis, closer to his observance, either rejected political protest or upheld the government’s prosecution of the war. A majority of JTS faculty dissociated themselves from Heschel’s involvement. Although some detractors (and friendly conservatives) considered him naive politically, he kept himself well informed of
