On One Foot: Joshua Hammerman's Blog

Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.

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Friday, March 14, 1997

Saturday Morning Fever (Jewish Week)

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The Jewish Week, March 14, 1997 Tuesday the rabbi got sick. My two young children had come down with the flu the previous weekend, so I was ...
Friday, February 7, 1997

Dancing Sheva (Jewish Week)

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  Dancing   Sheva     by Joshua Hammerman Appeared in  Jewish Week,  2/97 The prevailing myth that goes around about rabbis is that we are i...
Friday, January 24, 1997

Still a Young Rabbi After All These Years (Jewish Week)

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The Jewish Week, January 24, 1997 In a few weeks I'll be turning that magical age of 40. A dozen years ago I wrote an essay for the New ...
Friday, December 13, 1996

Dancing Sheva - Leaps Of Faith; The Dance of the Rabbi (Jewish Week)

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The Jewish Week, December 13, 1996 The prevailing myth that goes around about rabbis is that we are incredibly overworked; constantly runnin...
Wednesday, December 4, 1996

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Jewish (Jewish Week)

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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being Jewish by Joshua Hammerman Have you ever stopped to think of how many useless things you've accumula...
Monday, November 25, 1996

First email to the congregation

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Tuesday, October 8, 1996

Interfaith Dialogue At A Crossroads (Jewish Week)

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The Jewish Week, October 18, 1996 It was supposed to be a simple Yom Kippur sermon about the need for Jewish-Christian dialogue, in advance ...
Tuesday, October 1, 1996

High Holiday Sermons 5757: The Power of Words / Love Our Neighbor, Love Ourselves

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Day 1 |  Day 2   First Day Rosh Hashanah: The Power of Words by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman Recently I was surfing through the rabbinic c...
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