What happens after we die? This is one of the most anguishing of our existential questions. Materialists answer: when yer dead, yer dead. Get over it. Dualists answer: immortal soul. Easter Christians answer: resurrection of the body. What happens after we die?
If the Jewish community had a garden of MVP, or most valuable players, Abbie Hoffman would be among the group.Â
Born in 1936 and raised in a middle-class Jewish household, Hoffman became a prominent political and social activist, speaking up for the rights of the less-fortunate, and championing the cause at the Democratic Convention in 1968, where he was charged with crossing state lines with the intent to start a riot. The case brought together seven notable activists in a legendary trial that involved a never-before-used law called Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
The charges were vacated and all eventually walked, but it became known as the rallying cry for social justice over government control.