Rabbi Samantha Natov looks to teachings from the Torah, Talmud, and midrash for to limit fear’s role in guiding important choices.
“Memory is anything but static.” As Memorial Day approaches, Rabbi Samantha Natov celebrates the Jewish practice of active remembrance.
“It is one thing to point out – rightly – human suffering. But you cannot be neutral between liberal democracy and authoritarian coercion, between respect for human life and contempt for life, between dignity and cruelty, between self-defense and terror. To confuse democracies with autocracies, to confuse terrorists with their victims, is a moral disease.“ Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch responds to recent events by the Gaza border.
A trip to the barber causes Rabbi Hirsch to confront his mortality.
“We cannot fully understand the contemporary Jewish experience, or live complete Jewish lives, without Israel being part of our Jewish identity.”
In celebration of Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch honors our history of achievement and explores how Israel’s existence allows us to serve as agents of progress and social repair.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch demands that we combat humanity’s evil impulses and instill the values of tolerance, decency, compassion, freedom, diversity, and respect. “Again and again and again we have chosen life. It is the imperative today as well.”
