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How to be happy when things are so rotten
Visiting my happy place, strolling among the shells and boulders, and being reminded that we're all just walking each other home.
Dec 3
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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November 2025
Safe at Home
The yearning to return home is something we all share. Maya Angelou wrote, “The ache for home lives in all of us." This Thanksgiving, let's aim to make…
Nov 23
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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America, It's Time for Moral Clarity
We do not have the right to remain silent. Miranda rights don’t apply to morality. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself; it is more…
Nov 16
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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How Jews Can Help the World
Revisiting Abba Eban's series, “Heritage: Civilization and the Jews,” 40 years later - trying to find a new Jewish message for a wounded generation.
Nov 13
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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THIS WEDNESDAY: New Class: “Heritage: Civilization and the Jews” – One Generation Later
Three-part Zoom seminar on landmark series by Abba Eban, led by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, beginning on November 12 at 7 PM EST. Sign up now! Space is…
Nov 10
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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After Mamdani's victory, vigilance is called for. "Resistance" is not.
Hold his feet to the fire, but understand that there can just be one pharaoh at a time.
Nov 7
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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On the 30th anniversary of Rabin's assassination, choosing hope
When he received his Nobel Prize, Rabin said, “…of all the memories I have stored up in my 72 years, I now recall the hopes.
Nov 3
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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October 2025
A Prayer for Millions Facing the Disgrace of a SNAP Hunger Crisis
Amid hopes that a Rhode Island judge will keep the food supply chain open for the most vulnerable among us. But the stomachs of hungry Americans should…
Oct 31
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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The East Wing and the Western Wall: A tale of two obsessive builders, ego-driven mad kings who smashed their nation’s most sacred sites
We’ve seen this before. An obsessive builder, paranoid, impulsive, thirsting for adoration but universally despised, wanting to make his nation great…
Oct 27
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The Blessings of Fall: Brilliant Skies, Fiery Foliage - and Freedom
Watching the changing trees, New England’s gift to the world, I wondered, is there a blessing for foliage? Fiddler on the Roof says, there is a blessing…
Oct 24
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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New Class: “Heritage: Civilization and the Jews” – One Generation Later
Three-part Zoom seminar on landmark series by Abba Eban, led by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, beginning on November 12 at 7 PM EST. Sign up now! Space is…
Oct 23
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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Local reporters and editors become profiles in courage in coverage of “No Kings”
Just as universities are learning that there is strength in unity, the press needs to understand that too. And this weekend, they passed the test…
Oct 20
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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