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Jan 11, 2023, 5:04 PM
Is Judaism to Blame for Israel’s Problems?
One of the saddest dynamics gaining attention following the recent Israeli elections is the role that Judaism is playing in alienating Jews from Jewish community. Of course, these dynamics have been in place for a long time.  But something is...
May 3, 2022, 5:07 PM
American Jews Need the Next Stage of Zionism
In May 1956 General Moshe Dayan’s sixteen-year-old daughter sent Martin Buber – who was seventy-eight years old and living in Jerusalem – the following letter: After having read your writings and attempting to understand them, and because we are dissatisfied...
Jun 8, 2021, 5:20 PM
To love or not to love the Jewish people?
Over the last weeks, the words of an almost sixty-year old correspondence have been running through my head. In 1961, the New Yorker commissioned Hannah Arendt to report on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.  Arendt turned these articles into her...
Apr 28, 2020, 9:53 PM
Israeli Independence Day 2020: Trying to Hold Grief and Joy in Our Hearts at Once
We are all grieving.  We may not necessarily name the emotion as such, but once we scratch past the shock at our new situation and the frustrations of trying to manage our new lives, we will find a latent...
Mar 8, 2020, 6:59 PM
On Purim — Pay it Forward!
Sometimes feeling thankful is not enough. That’s where gratitude comes in. Gratitude represents something deeper than simply feeling appreciative.  It’s an awareness that the good and blessings in our own lives are not completely our own doing.  They are not completely...
Dec 18, 2015, 7:58 PM
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The dark lessons of tolerating hate speech
20 years ago, as now, an Israeli leader was depicted as a Nazi -- all of us know the price of staying silent
Nov 18, 2015, 6:07 AM
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What our vulnerability demands of us
Justified fears of Islamic extremism must not cause us to demonize an entire religion and vilify those seeking refuge
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About Me
Rabbi David Hoffman is President of the Honey Foundation for Israel. The Honey Foundation for Israel invests in the growing field of Israeli communal rabbinic and spiritual leadership, around the entire country and across the broad spectrum of religious expression, providing financial and professional resources that allow these talented leaders to build robust and engaged communities.