Rabbi Moshe Hauer 73 articles

It is Purim season, and it is high time for us to lift our spirits, to turn from today’s painful challenges to its incredible opportunities and to lose some sleep

President Biden’s State of the Union address notably ignored America’s current tidal wave of antisemitism and failed to reference the May 2023 launch of the first ever National Strategy to

Leader Schumer’s speech to the Senate yesterday, Thursday, March 14th, was profoundly disappointing and concerning. While Leader Schumer claimed to speak on behalf of a silent majority of Jewish Americans,

We are all rightly preoccupied with the profoundly unsettling events of the past months. War, loss, and dislocation have traumatic effects that are currently being experienced by many. It is

There is a story that I regularly repeat at our family Pesach Seder. It is hard to repeat it without crying. I share it with you in memory of my

The announcement of two documentaries in production about Hamas’s sexual violence against women in its October 7 attack is an important grassroots effort to raise awareness. Within days of each other, former

Today, Thursday, February 8, is Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar I, Yom Kippur Kattan, a day traditionally dedicated to an extra measure of prayer. As the conflict continues, we may draw

Four months after Simchat Torah became a day of profound tragedy, we need to reaffirm the premise to which that day is dedicated. As a people of memory, that day

Recently, my mother, who escaped Hungary as a young teen in 1943 as the Nazis were closing in, called me from her home in Jerusalem. She was quite agitated, asking

What could anyone like me possibly say to this group?  Dear Rabbi Hauer, Hope BZ”H all is well.  Long story made short…. We have a son on the front lines