The first of these, the Freedom Seder, was written by Arthur Waskow, published in Ramparts magazine and in a small booklet by the Micah Press and in a later edition ( 1970 ) by Holt-Rinehart-Winston, and was actually performed on April 4, 1969, the first anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the third night of Passover, at Lincoln Memorial Temple in Washington, DC.

Henry T. Waskow, the basis of a famous article by Ernie Pyle, was a Belton native.

It was in this publication that Waskow coined the term " Jewish Renewal.

Walker's death — and the reaction of his men to it — is a faithful recreation of the death of Waskow on Hill 1205 ( Monte Sammucro ) on December 14, 1943, which was the subject of Pyle's most famous column, The Death of Captain Waskow.

Waskow was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1968 Waskow was elected an alternate delegate from the District of Columbia to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

His delegation was pledged to support Robert 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 person so nominated at a major party convention.

Waskow was a contributing editor to the leftist Ramparts magazine, which published his " Freedom Seder " in 1969.

Through the 1960s, Waskow was active in writing, speaking, electoral politics, and nonviolent action against the Vietnam War.

From 1982 to 1989, Waskow was a member of the faculty of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he taught courses on contemporary theology and practical rabbinics.

It was founded by art collector and Vermont art enthusiast Mark S. Waskow.

After Baruch Goldstein's massacre of Palestinians at the Mosque in Hebron, rabbi Arthur Waskow argued that Goldstein had decided to ' blot out the memory of Amalek ' by machine-gunning the Palestinian worshippers, and commented:

Founders of the havurot included the liberal political activist Arthur Waskow, Michael Strassfeld ( who later became rabbi for a Conservative congregation and then moved on to serve a major Reconstructionist congregation ), and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

Arthur Ocean Waskow ( born Arthur I. Waskow ; 1933 ) is an American author, political activist, and rabbi associated with the Jewish Renewal movement.

In 1993 it merged with The Shalom Center, founded by Rabbi Waskow, to become ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal.

In 1967, Raskin and IPS Fellow Arthur Waskow penned " A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority ", a document signed by dozens of well-known scholars and religious leaders that helped launch the draft resistance movement.

Henry T. Waskow of the 36th Division's Company B 143rd Infantry, and the vehicle for conveying the reflections expressed to Pyle by Sgt.

Waskow has taken pioneering roles in supporting the full presence and equality of women and of GLBTQ people in all aspects of Jewish life and religion, including same-sex marriage ; in mobilizing opposition in the Jewish and general communities to the Vietnam and then the Iraq wars ; in urging a two-state peace settlement between Israel and Palestine ; in treating the planetary climate and other environmental crises as a profound concern of Torah, necessitating action by the Jewish community ; and in urging the Jewish community to treat the increasing concentration of top-down power by small minorities of the ultra-rich and by giant corporations as the reappearance of " pharaoh " in modern American life.

Waskow has taught as a Visiting Professor in the religion departments of Swarthmore College ( 1982 – 83, on the thought of Martin Buber and on the Book of Genesis and its rabbinic and modern interpretations ); Temple University ( 1975 – 76 on contemporary Jewish theology and 1985 – 86, on liberation theologies in Judaism, Christianity, 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 faulty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion ( the first course on Eco-Judaism in any rabbinical seminary ).

While the movement spanned a broad spectrum of spiritual proclivities, some Jews in the founding circles, like Arthur Waskow, Arthur Green, and Michael Lerner, under the combined influence of Heschel and Schachter-Shalomi, took up the project of further exploring Hasidism and recasting it in an American idiom.

Other leaders, teachers and authors associated with Jewish Renewal include Rabbis Arthur Waskow, Michael Lerner, Rachel Barenblat, Tirzah Firestone, Phyllis Berman, Shefa Gold, David Ingber, and Marcia Prager.

Together with such colleagues as Arthur Waskow, Schachter-Shalomi broadened the focus of his organization.

* Before There Was A Before ( with David Waskow, and Shoshana Waskow, Adama Books, 1984 ).

* Becoming Brothers ( with Howard Waskow ; Free Press, 1993 ).

In the film, he portrayed war-weary officer Bill Walker ( based on Captain Henry T. Waskow ), who remains resolute despite the troubles he faces.

In 1979, Waskow had founded a magazine called Menorah, which explored and encouraged many creative ritual and social issues from a Jewish perspective.

A few of these devotees, like Waskow and Lerner, became writers of note and " public square " intellectuals in the Jewish community and in the Jewish Renewal movement.

It also includes such people as rabbis Michael Lerner and Arthur Waskow: religiously devout and culturally identified Jews.

In the twentieth century, Jewish theologians — notably Abraham Joshua Heschel, Arnold Jacob Wolf, Arthur Waskow and Mordecai Kaplan, more recently Michael Lerner and Daniel Boyarin — have emphasised these social justice aspects of the religion.

He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

In 1900, with the completion of his licentiate in theology, he was ordained as curate, and that year he witnessed the Oberammergau Passion Play.

To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.

Within a week, Ambrose was baptized, ordained and duly consecrated bishop of Milan.

In 1807 he was ordained in the priesthood in the Church of England.

Since John Wesley ordained and sent forth every Methodist preacher in his day, who preached and baptized and ordained, and since every Methodist preacher who has ever been ordained as a Methodist was ordained in this direct " succession " from Wesley, then the Methodist Church teaches that it has all the direct merits coming from apostolic succession, if any such there be.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon.

He was ordained a deacon by the contemporary patriarch, Alexander of Alexandria, in 319.

In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.

The earliest organization of the Church in Jerusalem was according to most scholars similar to that of Jewish synagogues, but it had a council or college of ordained presbyters ( elders, priests ).

The first woman bishop within Anglicanism was Barbara Clementine Harris, who was ordained in the United States in 1989.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

There he was ordained, and obtained a reputation both as a professor and a preacher.

" Confucius's moral system was based upon empathy and understanding others, rather than divinely ordained rules.