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Oct 10, 2024, 9:55 PM

American and Israeli Jews: The difference between PTSD and OTSD (Ongoing Traumatic Stress Disorder)

As a new Oleh, I have been thinking about how Jewish Israelis and Jewish Americans are experiencing the first anniversary of October 7 and the first post-October 7 Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe). Even after only three months in...

Sep 10, 2024, 8:41 PM

Israel is Absorbing Me Faster than I’m Absorbing Israel

About two months ago, my wife and I made one of the most consequential decisions in our forty-four years of marriage: we made Aliyah. Soon after we arrived, we met with an advisor from the Ministry of Absorption (משרד...

May 6, 2024, 10:25 PM

Jews in the United States are Safe. Or Are They?

I am a Columbia University alum who lives in Ilhan Omar’s district. Talk about bad luck! I am already sickened by Omar’s name appearing on my ballot every two years. Now, after hearing her remarks at the anti-Israel and...

Dec 8, 2023, 8:56 PM

Elite University Presidents Flunk Human Decency Test

Abraham H. Foxman, then A.D.L. National Director, stated in 2014 that there had been a significant decline in the number and intensity of antisemitic acts in America over the past decade. However, since 2018, antisemitism in the US has...

Nov 19, 2023, 11:03 PM

Explaining Hamas’s War Against Israel: Futility, Necessity, and Opportunity

With support for Israel's Gaza invasion waning, Jews inside and outside of Israel have a frustrating problem. The mission of those who love Israel is to advocate for Israel and educate others on why Israel must destroy Hamas. Hamas's...

Nov 1, 2023, 6:28 PM

I Demand to Know Why….

I Demand to Know Why.... Jews are unsafe in the United States! I began wearing a kipah publicly about fifty years ago and, for the first time, felt unsafe without wearing a baseball cap to hide it. As a native Philadelphian, I...

Oct 13, 2023, 7:01 PM

Don’t Fall Into the Moral Equivalence Trap

Comparing Hamas's Barbaric Attack on Innocent Israeli Citizens with Israel's Defensive War in Gaza is like Claiming that Jaywalking and Murder are Comparable Offenses. The moral equivalence squad comparing Israel's defensive war against Gaza's main terrorist organization, Hamas, is in...

Sep 24, 2022, 10:29 AM

When the Community Separates from Us: Connecting with People Who Live with Chronic Illness

In 2018, I began having some weird and unpleasant bodily feelings. These sensations were the early warning signs of an onset of complex autoimmune conditions. My illnesses have degraded my life and negatively impacted my family's life. But on...

Apr 26, 2022, 7:45 PM

Rabbi Leder: Please Resign and Advocate for a Woman Rabbi

I hadn’t yet started my first cup of coffee when I saw the Times of Israel headline, “Outcry after Women’s Day Magazine appoints a ‘rabbi in residence’ and Chooses a Man.” I blinked and reread the headline, but it...

Apr 20, 2022, 6:58 PM

A ‘Big Jewish Idea’ is hiding in the Pesach seder

Painting by the Polish artist, Arthur Szyk, 1948 (Yeshiva University Museam / Center for Jewish History_

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About Me

Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D., is a national thought leader, organizational consultant and author on the American Jewish community with a specialty in synagogue life. He is President & CEO of the Herring Consulting Network.