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Showing posts with label Being a Rabbi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Being a Rabbi. Show all posts
Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Death of Trust - Jewish Week

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The Death Of Trust Tue, 11/04/2014 Joshua Hammerman Special To The Jewish Week In light of the Barr...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Being a Mensch / The State of the Rabbininate

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Being a Mensch, Becoming Human, Staying Alive Last night about 25 men gathered for our inaugural men's discussion session.  The co...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Year Of Thinking Biblically (Jewish Week)

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SPECIAL JEWISH WEEK SECTION: ISRAEL NOW The Year Of Thinking Biblically A plea for adaptability and openness in a world increasingly colored...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Questioning My New Degree (Jewish Week)

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Questioning My New Degree Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Joshua Hammerman Special To The Jewish Week I received an honorary doctorate from the J...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Civility Wars

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At this week's Rabbinical Assembly convention in New York, a resolution was passed calling upon people of all political bents to be more...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

"All in a Rabbi's Day" Jewish Week (Sept 4, 2009)

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All In A Rabbi’s Day by Joshua Hammerman Special To The Jewish Week Late Friday night, the phone rang. When the caller ID blinked “Stamford ...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Remembering Dana and Reflecting on a Rabbi's Greatest Challenge

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This past week, I had to do two funerals, one for a man who died at age 91, a good man, with a wonderful family who grieved over his grave i...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Product Placement: a Rosh Hashanah Message

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At this time of year, rabbis are inundated with e-mails, web links and superbly constructed PDF files, as organizations aim to get “air time...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

A Message to the Graduates (and that means all of us)

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This week's portion, Shelach Lecha, contains within it the worst commencement address ever given. This being that commencement-time-of-...
Monday, March 31, 2008

The Problem With Pedestal Rabbis (Jewish Week)

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The Jewish Week, 9/00 We ve been hearing a lot about rabbis lately, and most of it not good. Allegations of abuse of rabbinic power and betr...

S.O.S.: Saving Our Synagogues

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Review essay for JBooks.com, 2003 The concept of synagogue renewal has been around for as long as there have been synagogues. Liturgical ref...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Civil War (What has become of civility?)

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The Jewish Week, May 1996 What has become of civility? We see its demise in Washington, where angry ideologues have driven the moderates und...

Jewish Perfectionism Can Wreak Havoc on Our Self Esteem

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Moment Magazine, August 1996 Ever notice how dumb we've all become -- and how proud we are of it? Maybe it began with that famous inter...

The Call

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1996 It all started innocently enough, but then again, so did the Creation. On a humid summer night on Cape Cod in 1995, I brought my four-...