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In This Moment: A Rabbi's Notebook
A Mensch's Guide to Life
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
Shattered Tablets, Broken Democracies
The Torah teaches that we need visual reminders of our leaders' destructiveness and our collective sins. Here are some suggestions.
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Introduction to Judaism, Session 1: What is Judaism
Listen now (70 mins) | Rabbi Joshua Hammerman teaches the basics of Judaism. This first session discusses how Judaism can be best be summed in three…
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My Annual Super Bowl Prediction, Using Jewish Sources
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Shattered Tablets, Broken Democracies
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Dear Gen Z Jews...
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Heschel's Audacity and Hamlin's Injury
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It's Time to Marginalize "Marginalize"
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It's Time to Marginalize "Marginalize"
What the radical right is doing to Jews, LGBTQ, Blacks and others should no longer be tossed aside as simple marginalization, a euphemism that has…
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"Are you there, Margaret? It’s me, God."
Netanyahu’s tough interviews on American TV were a rude awakening. He’s lost the anchors. He's lost Democrats. He’s lost most American Jews. If he’s…
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Midnight in the Garden of Eden
Listen now (21 mins) | Jewish visions of climate and change. Can sustainability become the New Normal? (Earth Week talk at Interfaith Council's "For the…
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I Asked Chat GPT to Translate the Sh'ma into 20 languages and provide commentary. I did a better job.
Frustrated by its incompetence, I decided to run rabbinic circles around Chatty by producing ten of my own takes on the Sh'ma
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From Silence to Defiance: Profiles in Chutzpah from Warsaw to Wiesel
The Jewish imperative to stand up for justice, which I learned - as a rebellious youth - from Aaron's sons
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A Week That Changed Everything
Passover is a festival both of springtime beauty and national liberation. These fateful weeks have reminded us freedom, like the land, is worth dying…
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Jewish & Democratic is not an either/or proposition
What the musical "Kazablan" understood fifty years ago, could help Israel out of its crisis today.
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