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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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Israel's Toyota Strategy

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Regrettably, I won't be able to attend the AIPAC Policy Conference in two weeks (since I'll be going to Israel next month, I had t...

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Corrie Minkoff on Vayakhel-Pekuday

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Those of you who know me might know that I really love cars and motorcycles. I don’t drive them – YET – but I have been on my uncle’s motorc...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Have a Cow, Man. In Fact, Have Two!

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This week is Shabbat Parah , the third of the four special Torah readings read before Passover. Parah means cow, and the section describes t...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Envelope, Please!

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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman ’s Nominees for Best Picture Ava Tar : Great aunt Ava shrieks as she steps onto a newly paved road in her flip flops....

Guide to Passover Preparations

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Here is my guide to Passover preparations, followed by a sale of Hazmetz form. Click to enlarge each page.

The Infamous "Apartheid Week"

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Thank you Jimmy Carter for falsely equating Israel with the most notorious racist regime of the late 20th century. So now, the propagandists...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

My Father’s Chupah (NY Jewish Week)

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                      See reactions to this article on the blog of  the Jewish Outreach Institute My Father's Chupah by Joshua Hammerman...

Haiti Concert This Monday!

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Monday, March 1, 2010

From the Jerusalem Post Blog

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Rabbi Wernick explains why the status quo in the Kotel "is not acceptable" (see 360 degree view of Kotel here .) Q: Here's the...

The T.B. at T.B.E.

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Some say I'm the Top Banana at Temple Beth El. Others claim that we are a Banana Republic. Well, this past Saturday night, for Purim I w...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Evil Doers' Final Four

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In honor of Shabbat Zachor , when we recall the evil done to us by Amalek , and in anticipation of March Madness here is a link to an ingen...

Latke vs Hamentaschen Debate

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The Great Debate -- Latkes vs. Hamentaschen There have been many great debates in world history: Lincoln vs. Douglas, the Scopes trial, and...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Spirituality and the Internet

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It's been ten years since I wrote this ... and while the experience of surfing the Internet has now become routine, and many of the dang...
Monday, February 22, 2010

The Best Purim Parodies and Jewish Jokes

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What does Purim have to do with humor and parody? EVERYTHING. The book of Esther, properly read, IS itself a parody. Read about Purim Torah ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Shechina Has Left the Building!

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When I first visited the Kotel , as a 16 year old on a teen tour, it was the evening of Tisha B'Av . Over 100,000 Jews, people of all ba...
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