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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, June 4, 2010

We CAN All Get Along

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Yes, in a world full of divisiveness and strife , we CAN all still get along. Tablet magazine writes about just-announced multi million do...

Israel: Start Up Nation

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During a week of political turmoil, check this video to better understand the economic miracle that is Israel. I highly recommend the book f...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

The Art of the Positive: Parashat Shelach

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This week's portion of Shelach teaches us the power of positive thinking. Where the ten other spies see only gloom and doom, Joshua and...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Resources on The Gaza Flotilla

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See the information packets below, supplied by AIPAC: "Flotilla Sought Provocation, Not to Provide Assistance" is a memorandum tha...

Hammerman on Ethics: No Handshake: Don't Take it Personally

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Some of you might recall this question, which came up earlier this year. Now it appears in my "Hammerman on Ethics" column. Feel...

Visions of a Sacred Communty

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From the Alban Insititute , " Visions of a Sacred Community " summarizes the new book of Isa Aron , Steven M. Cohen , Lawrence A....
Monday, May 31, 2010

Israel's Early Days: Rare Color Footage

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See below some rare color footage of Israel's early days, at a time when almost everything was filmed in black and white. This except, ...

A Difficult Day for Israel - Tough Times for American Jews

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Here's a link of that same video, but with sound and subtitles The events this morning involving Israel and the Gazan flotilla have cr...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Shabbat-O-Gram for Memorial Day Weekend

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Shabbat-O-Gram  I've just returned from the Rabbinical Assembly convention at JTS, culminating in yesterday's Convocation where I wa...

G-dcast for Beha'alotcha

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It's raining chicken! Hallelujah! Beha'alotcha, the parsha so eventful you can't pronounce its name without going to rabbinical ...

Dr. Hammerman

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I've just returned from the Rabbinical Assembly convention at JTS , culminating in the convocation yesterday where I was privileged to ...

A Rabbi's Sermon at Iwo Jima: A Memorial Day Tribute

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It has been called one of the great battlefield sermons to come out of World War Two. On this Memorial Day weekend, I share with you the wor...

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Sydney Katz on Naso

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Imagine not having your computer for four whole days! And then, when the computer finally comes back… no internet ! Could anything possibly ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jewish Baseball Site

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For those who can't get enough baseball and Jews, here's the site for you: http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/

A Bumper Sticker for Conservative Judaism?

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Speeches made by Rabbis Harold Kushner and David Wolpe to the Rabbinical Assembly, challenging us to redefine Conservative Judaism in a sing...
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