and Islam); Drew University (1997–1998, on the ecological outlooks of ancient, rabbinic, and contemporary Judaism and on the synthesis of mysticism, feminism, and social action in the theology and practice of Jewish renewal); Vassar College (1999 on Jewish Renewal and Feminist Judaism); from 1982 to 1989 on the faculty of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (contemporary theology and practical rabbinics); and in 2005 on the faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion (the first course on Eco-Judaism in any rabbinical seminary). Beginning with his first arrest in 1963, in a walk-in to end racial segregation by a Baltimore amusement park, and continuing through his arrest at the US Capitol in 2016 in a protest calling for more democratic election processes in the US — getting what he called "Hyper-Wealth" out of election campaigns and ending voter suppression aimed at disfranchising especially racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, the young, and the old— and most recently with arrests in Philadelphia at the ICE offices in protest of US governmental hostility to refugees and immigrants—he was arrested about 26 additional times, each time for a non-violent protest against racism, militarism, polluting the Earth, or interference with democratic process. He claimed each as a public honor and religious act, in the spirit of the remark by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel after the Selma March for voting rights: "I felt as if my legs were praying." He continues to be a prolific writer and speaker in the public sphere on the topic of social justice through a Jewish Renewal lens. The Arthur Ocean Waskow Papers (1948-2009)] are archived at the American Jewish Historical Society. More recent papers are archived at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Bibliography References External links Aleph.org Shalom Center Free Time Movement Rabbi Waskow and Will O'Brien: interview on Humankind Public Radio A Debate on Israeli Divestment with Omar Barghouti and Rabbi Arthur Waskow - video by Democracy Now! Guide to the Papers of Arthur Ocean Waskow at the American Jewish Historical Society, NY Activists for African-American civil rights American anti–Vietnam War activists American non-fiction environmental writers 20th-century American historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American pacifists American political writers American male non-fiction writers American religious writers American anti–Iraq War activists American anti–nuclear weapons activists American tax resisters American Jewish Renewal rabbis Jewish American writers Jewish pacifists Jewish Renewal rabbis Writers from Baltimore Political activists from Pennsylvania