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In This Moment: A Rabbi's Notebook
A Mensch's Guide to Life
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
Benediction Given on 5/3 at Holocaust Memorial Program, State Senate Chambers, Hartford CT
And why Isaiah 66:14 fits this moment perfectly. On this week spanning Yom Hashoah and Yom Ha-atzmaut, we think of the workers who inscribed that verse…
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"And Live By Them" - The Value of "Pikuach Nefesh"
Dvar Torah on Leviticus 18:5, "And Live By Them" - The Value of "Pikuach Nefesh" (Preserving Life) and what it has to do with Abortion, Eating Pork on…
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Jews Loved Joe Lieberman – But His Candidacy Made Us Nervous
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Purim and Palm Sunday, Together at Last
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A Rabbi Dies - and Kills - and More on "Flipping the Script"
How, after Auschwitz, something shattered in the soul of Judaism that has not yet healed, and it's on full display in the slide of the rabbi, to…
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In This Moment: Flipping the Script
My two professions are rabbi and journalist, and I’ve somehow managed to combine them. One profession preaches love and the other cherishes truth. Where…
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"A Night of Watching"
Israelis stood vigil in safe rooms, as Iran's 300 Angels of Death passed over. It was a remake of Exodus 12, with drones.
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How O.J. Simpson changed the way I think about God
I stopped calling God "He," hoping that that it would help breach the chasm separating the sexes and encourage mistreated women to seek help from their…
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Moral Clarity vs. Moral Purity
While there can be, in fact, several simultaneous moral clarities, moral purity can only sustain a single narrative.
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Jews Loved Joe Lieberman – But His Candidacy Made Us Nervous
Lieberman wanted to be the first Jewish President. It was not to be, and a prime cause could well have been that his own people wanted their boy Joe to…
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Purim and Palm Sunday, Together at Last
For the first time since 1997, Jews and Christians will parade in costume on the same day. celebrating a miraculous delivery from a near-death…
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