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, June 28, 2013

Shabbat-O-Gram for June 28

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       "Ferklempt" at the Kotel   Barbara Streisand made quite a splash in Israel last week.   Read what she had to say ab...

Remembering Elders Day

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I had the opportunity to speak about aging at an Atria panel discussion this week, and it reminded me of the Elders Day services we had here...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Classic Israeli Posters

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I'm a sucker for classic Israeli posters.  The  WZO website  has collected some of the all-time best and is selling them. Below are phot...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Our Newest Congregant

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On a beautiful early summer Sunday, this turtle was seen digging a hole for its eggs, right beneath our Temple Beth El sign.  What better wa...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Shabbat-O-Gram for June 14

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   Artist's rendering of TBE's roof, soon to be equipped with 850 solar panels, which will generate 70% of our electrici...

What Being Jewish Means To Me: Then and Now

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In June of 2008, I asked our graduating 7th grade students to respond to the question, "What does being Jewish mean to me?"  ...
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