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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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Jenna Plotzky on the March of the Living

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I never thought I would be trapped in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. To feel so many bodies pushed in like sardines into this tiny room, and ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Shabbat-O-Gram for June 20

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Shabbat-O-Gram Mazal tov to Tyler Liffmann, who become Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat, and thank you to her parents Karen and Joel for sponso...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Tyler Liffmann on Korah

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Shabbat Shalom! My portion tells the story of the great rebellion against Moses that took place in the wilderness.  Most of the people ...

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Jacob Herz on Shelach

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Shabbat Shalom!             A duck and a rabbi walk into a bar, whoops – wrong speech.  That’s for the Jewish comedy club try-out next w...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

This American (Jewish) Life, Volume 1: Personal Testimonies by Congregants of TBE

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Our experiences shape us but do not define us: Reflections on Resilience & Taking Action By Marni  I’m honored to have the o...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Climate change a game changer for Israel and world Jewry (Times of Israel)

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OPS   &   BLOGS    >   JOSHUA HAMMERMAN Climate change a game changer for Israel and world Jewry JOSHUA HAMMERMAN   June 6, 20...
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