In This Moment: A Rabbi's Notebook

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[Charlie Kirk Update] Time to Flood the Zone with Empathy.
What’s relevant to Signalgate is not whether the participants were evil or incompetent but that they were not capable of imagining a pilot's widow…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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Blowin' in the Wind
Wind, water and sun. While Trump flails at what he calls "windmills," the natural forces that have sustained us for millennia can save us now.
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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Coldplay calls Israeli fans “Equal Humans on Earth.” Was it condescension or compassion?
Chris Martin’s fumbled welcome politicized a decidedly non-political moment and undermined the purpose of that concert, to bring people together and…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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[Updated] The Trumpiest High Holidays Confessional Ever
On the Days of Awe, Jews confess their sins and the community's. Therefore it is entirely appropriate to see how many boxes Donald Trump checks in the…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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August 2025

Wide-ranging conversation with Israel expert Marc Schulman
Which country, Israel or America, is least likely to hold free elections next year? Whose press is more trustworthy? Which democracy is more resilent…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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Marc Schulman
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We Need to Talk! Join me for my first Substack Live this Thurs. @ 2 EDT
I’ll be joined by special guest Marc Schulman, creator of the Tel Aviv Diary Substack.
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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How do you stop a crime wave when the authorities are the attackers?
Pull out your phone and press record. As Elie Wiesel said, quoting Leviticus, "Don’t stand idly by if you witness injustice. You must intervene. You…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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The Peacemaker's Task
We resist the power of death by affirming life and love at every turn.
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It's not easy being mean. But mockery is the point. For now.
Mock, demean and “own” to your heart’s content. But it's liberating to recall that in the end we are all the same - even those who claim to have the…
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I still love America. And here's why.
An eyes-wide-open tribute to 25 decades of overcoming tragedy, surmounting shortcomings, reveling in accomplishments and standing up for what's right…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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Time for a NO-Mask Mandate
The revealed human face is one of the few examples of pure authenticity we have left. So, how about a mask ban on both college campus provocateurs and…
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Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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July 2025

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