Joshua Hammerman
By Joshua Hammerman
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Community About those Confederate idols
In chapter 12 of Deuteronomy, the Torah’s zero-tolerance policy regarding idolatry is revealed. And ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. Deuteronomy 12:3…
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Community Auschwitz and the coronavirus: a single garment of destiny
The legacy of the Shoah has been amplified by a global pandemic that will define this century just as the Holocaust defined the last. And the message of one reinforces the other: We are all inextricably connected, like the woven threads of a tapestry. A verse from Jeremiah 18, popularized in the Yom Kippur liturgy,…
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News Looking Back at Jacob Neusner’s Complicated Legacy
During the turmoil of the election campaign, the death of Jacob Neusner, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the past century, received relatively little attention. Neusner, who died in October, was one of the giants who established Jewish studies in the 20th century, and a central figure in the history of critical scholarship…
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