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Andrew Sherman

Jul 6, 2017, 4:11 PM

Talk to the animals: Parashat Balak (Bemidbar 22:2 – 25:5)

Author's note: I originally wrote this for a project at B'nai Jeshurun. We had community-written D'vrei Torah every week for at least a year. The web site with those commentaries has long since been taken down, so I am...

Nov 23, 2015, 7:43 AM

An Al Chet for God

This is actually the first essay I wrote in response to Shira's death. My original introduction said: I wrote this piece the evening after the funeral of Dr. Steven Z. Miller z’l, a physician who was killed in a plane...

Aug 22, 2015, 1:54 AM

They had it coming

A familiar holiday season verse exhorts us: He's making a list and checking it twice, he's gonna find out who's naughty or nice. And the next line rolls right off the tip of the tongue And on Yom Kippur will be sealed. It...

Aug 9, 2015, 9:30 PM

From the three corners of the earth?

(For the back story behind this blog, feel free to see my first post.) For the first eleven months after Shira died, I spent most mornings in the daily minyan at B’nai Jeshurun. Joanne and I had very different approaches...

Jul 27, 2015, 9:02 AM

Journal of Practical Theology

It is with a certain amount of trepidation that I begin a blog that is not about technology. After all, I have degrees and credentials in technology, and none in theology — just practical experience to share, in the hope...

About Me

Andy Sherman is an information security consultant with long experience in the financial services and healthcare industries. He is an active member of New York's Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, where he is a volunteer musician in the weekly children's service. Andy is married to Joanne Palmer, the father of Miriam and Shira (z'l) Palmer-Sherman. and grandfather of Nava and Judah Sherman-Vaisberg.

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