Sagacious, do you even appreciate what it meant to wear a kippah on national TV in 1972? Also, I would go to youtube to watch the interview you are referring to–I’m not so sure you are remembering correctly (that R Heschel kippah fell off and no one picked it up). Maybe he didn’t feel it fall off. How do you really know? As for the “isms”–you clearly have not read any of R Heschel’s books. If you had, how you can say he was influenced by “secularism”–that is just false and mind boggling. He would be horrified to be associated with secularism. He fought against it with every fiber of his being. And activism and humanism–you think rescuing Soviet Jewry and equal rights for minorities are bad things?
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