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Jewish Dem Download Live with Rabbi Hammerman
Thank you to all those who tuned into my live video with Halie Soifer, CEO of of America! We discussed a number of important issues as the midterm American and Israeli elections fast approach and in the midst of this High Holidays season....
Sept. 11, 2026 and Rosh Hashanah 5787: A time for reawakening
Here is audio of the sermon that I gave on Rosh Hashanah 2001, just one week after 9/11 (there are some gaps, but you can fill them in by reading the transcript). These were very different times, but history often rhymes, and it is doing so...
How "political" should clergy be on the pulpit?
I’m re-sending, in slightly adapted form, an op-ed I published last year, as a plea to my clergy colleagues on the eve of the High Holidays. Here’s the Rosh Hashanah message I could never deliver as a pulpit rabbi - and it’s a damn sha...
Two lying leaders lying down on the job - This fall’s elections are riding on who is - and was - asleep at the wheel.
Among the many similarities of Israel and America’s autocrat wannabes is their preoccupation with sleep.
Bibi is basing his reelection campaign completely on the claim that he was asleep on the job on October 7, not awakened when the first...
An Open Letter to Gen. Z and Millennial Jews: Our Break (the) Glass Moment
Rosh Hashanah card featuring Jewish lifecycle, New York, 1910. from National Library of Israel
Dear Gen Z and Millennial Jews.
This heart-to-heart comes from a seasoned Boomer, who recently left my pulpit after nearly forty years. This y...
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