by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Jan 18, 2017 | Other
Health care decisions have grown increasingly complex with the advancement of medicine, and are influenced by the values of those involved. Halacha has much to say about these issues, and it serves as the single source for Jewish Medical Ethics. As is always the case,...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Jan 3, 2017 | Moadim
As a community, we have been shaken by a series of recent tragic losses and challenges experienced by individuals and families within our community. We are unsettled, and we wonder what it all means and which steps we might consider in response. Yet now, on Chanukah,...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 22, 2016 | Divrei Torah
Parshas Vayeishev – Erev Chanukah The Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 2:4) records cryptically how the Greeks decreed upon the Jews to “inscribe on the horn of the ox that you have no portion in the G-d of Israel.” Different understandings of this decree have been...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 20, 2016 | Moadim
Chanukah and Purim are seen as celebrating two different kinds of experiences for the Jewish People. In the story of Purim we were threatened with physical annihilation, while the Greeks posed primarily a spiritual threat. Thus in the Al HaNissim thanksgiving prayer...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 14, 2016 | Current Events, Divrei Torah
Vayishlach Jewish Foreign Policy: A Test Case Applying the wisdom of Torah to contemporary challenges is never simple; it is however exceptionally challenging when it comes to Jewish foreign affairs. Our Sages taught us that Parshas Vayishlach contains the template...
