Rabbi Moshe Hauer 77 articles

Our brothers’ blood cries out to us from under the ground. Fourteen months have passed since October 7, but those cries continue, unabated. This week, those cries have been particularly

In our profoundly imperfect lives, in a world in which so much depends on forces totally beyond our control, we indeed remain in full command of our perspective. We get

Everyone has their favorite Chabad story. Here is mine.  A friend once approached a Chabad shaliach (emissary) who would stand at the entrance to the subway station each and every

I just returned from the land of the giants and feel like a puny grasshopper. One of those giants was Ivri Dickshtein, hy”d, a commander in Golani who was killed

My dear friend and colleague, Rav Yisrael Motzen, reported on what happened in his shul, Ner Tamid in Baltimore, this past Wednesday morning: “One of the most vocal Democrats in

America is a deeply divided country on the verge of a hard fought and highly contentious election. We are working hard to get out the vote so that our community’s

On this day, Shemini Atzeret, God instructs us to stop looking for the appreciation of those nations whom we work so hard to benefit and to take this day to

Our EVP Rabbi Hauer shared with Religion News one of the OU’s suggestions for how to honor the October 7 victims this Simchat Torah. Read full article on Religion News

Succot is one of the three annual festivals when the Jewish people made the aliyah l’regel pilgrimage to celebrate together in Yerushalayim. According to Rambam (Moreh Nevuchim 3:43), an essential purpose of

How shall we celebrate this Simchas Torah? Halachah does not allow us to mourn on Yom Tov, but — given what happened last year and since — can our observance