- He received a master's degree in international relations from the University of Chicago. He worked in Israel on a kibbutz until he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He served stateside during the Korean War as a chaplain's assistant, which inspired him to become a rabbi. He attended the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and was ordained in 1961.
- During seven decades of activism, he said he was the most arrested rabbi in America. He was a Freedom Rider protesting the segregation of interstate transit, and participated in other civil rights events including the March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery marches. He was also active in the movements to oppose the Vietnam War, to aid Soviet Jews, and to end apartheid in South Africa.
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