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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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
June 2023
April 2023
"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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
March 2023
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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
God's Signature
You can put lipstick on the Golden Calf, but it will still be an idol. You can put lipstick on January 6, and the purveyor of this falsehood will still…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
February 2023
Is the Wicked, Wicked Man Just Misunderstood?
Jewish tradition teaches us that no human being is either totally evil or completely good.
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
My Annual Super Bowl Prediction, Using Jewish Sources
Amazingly, eagles and chiefs BOTH appear in this week's Torah portion.
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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