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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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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Another triumph for Israeli wine | culture

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Thanks to Assad's ruthlessness, effectively ending any chances of a negotiated agreement with Israel, it looks like the Golan Heights wi...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Shots on Shabbat: Hammerman on Ethics

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Q - My daughter, a freshman on a large college campus, was invited to the home of a local rabbi for Friday night dinner. The rabbi is not af...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

7th grade graduation yearbook

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Click below to see the booklet produced for our recent 7th grade graduation. This class belies the canard that kids hate Hebrew School and ...

"Who is A Jew??" AGAIN! Coping With the Shifting Nature of Jewish Identity

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This week's CHUTZPAH Award goes to Interior Minister Eli Yishai , who is trying to restore the "Jewish" label to Israel identi...

Whining and Wine-ing - Parsha Packet for Shelach

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Here's the source material on last week's discussion for parashat Shelach, where we discussed the significance of wine and Jewish (a...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Hammerman on Ethics: Is Test Tube Meat Kosher?

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Q - I recently heard reports about the creation of artificial meat, using with animal stem cells. To this point, it exists only in a Petri ...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Sean Rose on Beha'alotcha

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Shabbat Shalom I am a big fan of Jewish holidays; I love them so much that I actually have three favorites: Hanukkah, Passover and Purim. Of...
Friday, June 10, 2011

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Ilana Olin on Naso

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Let me tell you about a typical day in the life of Ilana Olin. Mom wakes me at 7:00 . Mom wakes me at 7:05. Mom screams at me and I get o...

Jewish Ethics and Anthony Weiner's Very Bad Week: Hammerman on Ethics

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Jewish Ethics and Anthony Weiner's Very Bad Week Q - Does Rep. Weiner's admitted act of sending out explicit photos of himself disqu...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Hammerman on Ethics: Living in a Flood Zone

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Q –In reading about the recent Mississippi River floods, it was shocking to see how spillways were opened in less populated areas, in effect...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Israel Programs

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People often ask me about Israel programs for teens and young adults. Here is a good resource of links and addresses, from mercaz usa . Cons...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Sarah Goldberg on Bamidbar

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It is Memorial Day weekend, the start of summer and nature is in full bloom. In fact, my Torah portion and haftarah both center around natu...

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary; Jacob Goldberg on Bamidbar

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Shabbat Shalom! We were trying to figure out which one of us would give the first speech and we decided, AGE before beauty. In terms of my ...

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...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Woman sues Chevra Kadisha over funeral segregation - Israel News, Ynetnews

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Woman sues Chevra Kadisha over funeral segregation - Israel News, Ynetnews
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