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February 1, 2013
6:27 am

Guns and Moses

Ending gun violence in America is nothing less than the Civil Rights movement of our time

By Joshua Hammerman

December 16, 2012
5:38 pm

Mourning in Newtown (Photo: AP/David Goldman)

Newtown: A sorrow of biblical proportions

The grief in Connecticut conjures up Hannah, from the Book of Maccabees, who lost seven sons

By Joshua Hammerman

October 21, 2012
5:51 pm

The audacity of simplicity

The world is swiftly changing, but the Dalai Lama chooses to look at the future optimistically, placing it firmly but gently in the hands of the next generation

By Joshua Hammerman

October 3, 2012
12:28 pm

Maimonides and the ‘Negro’ etrog

I’m confident that Rambam’s reputation will survive, but I really wish he had come up with another way to describe a black citron

By Joshua Hammerman

September 9, 2012
5:40 pm

Democratic hedging, Republican wedging

If the candidates want to demonize each other in order to please major donors, let them do it in another sandbox — not in the away marked ‘Israel’

By Joshua Hammerman

August 13, 2012
2:16 pm

Aly Raisman: Our Hava Nagila hero

Despite our reputation as a depressive people, we are capable of being both Jewish and joyish

By Joshua Hammerman

July 27, 2012
5:05 pm

Olympic dreams and Jewish nightmares

On the eerie juxtaposition of the tribal tragedy of Tisha B’Av and the universal celebration of the human spirit in London

By Joshua Hammerman

July 13, 2012
4:32 pm

Abortion and capital punishment: Developing a Jewish culture of life

No government should be guilty of allowing an innocent human being to die. It’s a good place for a respectful dialogue to begin, one where religious groups can be active participants

By Joshua Hammerman

June 21, 2012
2:11 pm

Where summer dwells, Bialik’s bird returns

The most Zionist thing we can do now is to make the Jewish pulse beat more vibrantly right here in the US, and to lure back those who have long since taken flight from our synagogues and schools

By Joshua Hammerman

May 12, 2012
10:39 pm

The national union

Could Netanyahu’s broad-based coalition finally institute civil marriage in Israel?

By Joshua Hammerman

May 3, 2012
1:33 pm

The women of the wail

As the global War on Women plays itself out in Israel, the Western Wall has become a locus of strife rather than unity. The Shechina has left the building

By Joshua Hammerman

April 19, 2012
10:56 am

Israeli soldiers stand below a monument as they attend a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

‘Never again’ is not enough

Our goal should be nothing less than for the next generation to see bearing witness not as a burden, but as a privilege, an honor, and yet another source of pride in who they are

By Joshua Hammerman

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Joshua Hammerman

Guns and Moses

Ending gun violence in America is nothing less than the Civil Rights movement of our time

Newtown: A sorrow of biblical proportions

The grief in Connecticut conjures up Hannah, from the Book of Maccabees, who lost seven sons

The audacity of simplicity

The world is swiftly changing, but the Dalai Lama chooses to look at the future optimistically, placing it firmly but gently in the hands of the next generation

Maimonides and the ‘Negro’ etrog

I’m confident that Rambam’s reputation will survive, but I really wish he had come up with another way to describe a black citron

Democratic hedging, Republican wedging

If the candidates want to demonize each other in order to please major donors, let them do it in another sandbox — not in the away marked ‘Israel’

Aly Raisman: Our Hava Nagila hero

Despite our reputation as a depressive people, we are capable of being both Jewish and joyish

Olympic dreams and Jewish nightmares

On the eerie juxtaposition of the tribal tragedy of Tisha B’Av and the universal celebration of the human spirit in London

Abortion and capital punishment: Developing a Jewish culture of life

No government should be guilty of allowing an innocent human being to die. It’s a good place for a respectful dialogue to begin, one where religious groups can be active participants

Where summer dwells, Bialik’s bird returns

The most Zionist thing we can do now is to make the Jewish pulse beat more vibrantly right here in the US, and to lure back those who have long since taken flight from our synagogues and schools

The national union

Could Netanyahu’s broad-based coalition finally institute civil marriage in Israel?

The women of the wail

As the global War on Women plays itself out in Israel, the Western Wall has become a locus of strife rather than unity. The Shechina has left the building

‘Never again’ is not enough

Our goal should be nothing less than for the next generation to see bearing witness not as a burden, but as a privilege, an honor, and yet another source of pride in who they are

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