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...Heschel extended an invitation to the keynote speaker, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He asked that Dr. King join him in April for a Passover Seder in his family’s New York apartment. On April 4th, only a week before King was to sit at Rabbi Heschel??€™s table, James Earl Ray shot and killed Reverend King outside his Memphis hotel room...
Although King never had the opportunity to sit at Heschel??€™s Seder table, his example of collaboration across racial and religious barriers should continue to serve as model in our time; only through cooperation can we effectively address the hardest problems facing humanity. The Pharaoh who ruled over the Hebrews in ancient Egypt is not gone; he and his armies still exist in various forms for millions of people around the world...
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