Rabbi Moshe Hauer 73 articles

On Shemini Atzeret 5784, October 7, 2023, our view of the world in which we reside was shattered. It has not recovered. On that day, the Jewish people in Israel

Jews should be feeling quite lonely these days. Antisemitism, an increasingly visible and unsettling feature of American Jewish life since the Tree of Life attack exactly five years ago, has

Dear Friends, I am writing to encourage all of us – shuls, schools, and individuals – to join together on the 11th of Cheshvan, this Wednesday night and Thursday, in praying

Dear Friends, I hope you are coping as well as you can in these trying times. I am writing to you today from Yerushalayim, where since arriving on Wednesday evening

Rabbi Hauer draws from his experiences in Israel and talks about some of the changes that have and have not occurred in the Israel of this moment.

Our Sages taught, “Peace is great; discord is despised.” We are deeply shaken by the upheaval and discord that has gripped our beloved State of Israel. In recent weeks, the

 לך כנוס את כל היהודים  “Go and gather together all of the Jewish people.” (Megillat Esther 4:16)  Queen Esther brought on the miracle of Purim by calling upon the Jewish

American Jewish leaders need to deploy a different kind of hyperbole about Israel. It is time to put aside talk of the end of democracy, the onset of fascism, the

Twenty years ago, I was sworn in as a U.S. citizen at the War Memorial building in Baltimore. I went to the ceremony as a duty, not seeing it as