### In This Moment: A Rabbi's Notebook

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman

Joshua Hammerman, celebrated rabbi, award-winning journalist, author of "Mensch-Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi” and "Embracing Auschwitz: Forging a Vibrant, Life-Affirming Judaism That Takes the Holocaust Seriously"

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I wrote this after attending the AIPAC Policy Conference in 2012, when the organization was at its peak of power, but signs of atrophy were there to be seen as Netanyahu assumed center stage and prepared to break the bipartisan mythos with his all-but-endorsement of Mitt Romney.

“The conference was extraordinarily…

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Last week I suggested that Trump’s placing his name on that wall was a form of idolatry. Jews have always had a problem with idolatry. And the Talmud links idolatry explicitly to an overinflated ego, stating “Any person who has arrogance within him is considered as if he were an idol worshipper.” God says of that…

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