Articles by Rabbi Reuven Hammer

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WHEN ABRAHAM WEPT
Rabbi Reuven Hammer, 2 Dec 2008

Last Shabbat, when the Torah portion telling of Abraham’s purchase of Ma’arat Hamachpelah (Tomb of the Patriarchs) was read, thousands of Jewish Israelis descended on Hebron. They came both to celebrate that historic event and to show their identification with the contemporary struggle for the "house of contention," a house near the Machpelah, in the […]

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