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Religious Differences Between Artichokes: Two Plays: Imagining Heschel and Spinoza’s Solitude<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Praise for Colin Greer:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cGreer not only portrays the gaps in understanding that needed to be closed between Catholics and Jews, but also surmises on how there are limits for each of us in how far we can step outside of ourselves to make change.\u201d \u2014Edward K. Kaplan<\/b>, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Brandies University; author,\u00a0Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America<\/i>\u00a0(Winner of the National Jewish Book Award)<\/p>\n

\u201cGreer never doesn\u2019t tell us which choice to make. Instead his meditation makes us face our own moral landscape with a bit more humility.\u201d \u2014Ruth Messinger<\/b>, President, American Jewish World Service (AJWS)<\/p>\n

Praise for \u201cImagining Heschel\u201d:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cAbraham Joshua Heschel was one of the greatest thinkers and teachers of Judaism in the past two thousand years, and this play, \u2018Imagining Heschel,\u2019 captures him at the very historic moment when he seeks to shake the Vatican out of its historic role as victimizer of the Jews.\u201d \u2014Matthew Weiner<\/b>, Associate Dean of Religious Life, Princeton University<\/p>\n

\u201cHeschel, in the play, is a fascinating, complex, at times charming, and at other times a self-defeating, somewhat crabby personality who was an enormous force among those who were enormous forces. At many moments I found myself recalling how Kennedy seemed to blow the lid off of the Eisenhower stodginess and how Pope John seemed to do something similar to the Catholic Church.\u201d\u2014Rabbi Michael Lerner<\/b>, Editor,\u00a0Tikkun Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n

Praise for \u201cSpinoza\u2019s Solitude\u201d:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Spinoza\u2019s Solitude\u2019 fascinates. In illuminating the inner life, communal ties, and human dimensions of this \u2018dangerous\u2019 thinker, Colin Greer\u2019s absorbing play of persons and ideas instructs as it entertains. Spinoza\u2019s shift from theology and exegesis to science and reason underpins Greer\u2019s arresting interrogation of creative genius and its costs.\u201d \u2014Ira Katznelson<\/b>, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University; President, Social Science Research Council<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin Greer<\/strong>\u00a0has been the President of the New World Foundation since 1985. Formerly, he was a Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Dr. Greer participated in and directed several studies of U.S. Immigration and urban schooling policy and history (at Columbia University and CUNY). He wrote briefing papers on philanthropy and government for First Lady Hillary Clinton, and on education policy for Senator Paul Wellstone. He chaired the President\u2019s White House Internship Financial Aid Committee (1992\u20131994) and chaired the Funders\u2019 Committee for Citizen Participation for 12 years. His books include (with Herbert Kohl)\u00a0A Call to Character<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Plain Truth of Things<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Religious Differences Between Artichokes: Two Plays: Imagining Heschel and Spinoza’s Solitude Praise for Colin Greer: \u201cGreer not only portrays the gaps in understanding that needed to be closed between Catholics and Jews, but also surmises on how there are limits for each of us in how far we can step outside of ourselves to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[6405,12466,6396,12459,10997,45],"product_tag":[],"giftcard-category":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/47564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/47564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=47564"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=47564"},{"taxonomy":"giftcard-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/giftcard-category?post=47564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}