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Ammi Hirsch

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Ammi Hirsch

@AmmiHirsch

Senior Rabbi @FreeSynagogue | 'In These Times' Podcast Host | Champion of Reform Judaism, liberal values, Zionism & Jewish peoplehood

New York, NY

swfs.org/podcast

Joined September 2021

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Ammi Hirsch
@AmmiHirsch
May 27
Today @FreeSynagogue — where hundreds of Reform rabbis & Jewish community leaders are gathered for our “Re-CHARGING” conference — I addressed my deep concerns over the Reform movement and its seminary's commitment to #Zionism. My full remarks here —>
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Ammi Hirsch
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Nov 8, 2025
I met @ZohranKMamdani after the primaries. The reason he can't explain away his support for slogans like "Globalize the Intifada" is that they represent his core beliefs. He does not hide it; to the contrary, he is proud of it...
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Ammi Hirsch
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Oct 16, 2025
.@ZohranKMamdani I do not speak for all Jews, but I do represent the views of the large majority of the NY Jewish community, which is increasingly concerned about your statements about Israel and the Jewish people. I urge you to reconsider your long-held rejection of Israel’s
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Ammi Hirsch
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Feb 9, 2025
American Jews fought for immigration and urged the acceptance of Muslim and Arab refugees. And now some of those very people cry for us to "Go back to Poland!" We seek coexistence, but the sad truth is that the other side does not...
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Ammi Hirsch
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Apr 14, 2024
A non-partisan word to our elected #Democrats: Do not take American #Jews for granted. Be careful: The results of the upcoming elections do not only depend on Michigan.
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Ammi Hirsch
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Oct 2, 2025
The Western world is losing the plot again with respect to the #Jews... Be proud Jews! Do not confuse moral conviction with virtue signaling. Stand up for the truth. We need to make anti-#Zionism disreputable again; we need to strip it of its veneer of virtue.
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Ammi Hirsch
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Jan 25, 2025
Our movement has failed to communicate to many younger Jews — including some rabbis — that Zionism is integral to Judaism. An anti-Zionist rabbi is a contradiction in terms. That’s why I was in Israel last week with 24 other Reform rabbis. I am determined to make a difference.
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Ammi Hirsch
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Oct 12, 2024
To all our young people this #YomKippur: we tried to instill in you a sense of justice, righteousness and honor for all people. We are proud when your generation actively pursues these values. But we did not intend for some in your generation to turn their backs on our people…
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Ammi Hirsch
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Mar 2, 2025
The drip-drip release of 33 hostages, the extortion demanded by terrorists and paid by Israel, the sight of the rail-thin survivors, the macabre Hamas ceremony glorifying their strangling of the Bibas children — all this caused my indignation to reach a boiling point last week.
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Ammi Hirsch
@AmmiHirsch
Nov 8, 2025
.@ZohranKMamdani's win is remarkable since: (1) he has no managerial experience but will be running most complicated US bureaucracy; (2) he's a socialist in the most capitalist city in civilization's history; (3) he's an anti-Zionist in the planet's most Jewishly populous city.
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Ammi Hirsch
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Oct 3, 2024
For Jews, our deepest anxieties have reawakened and our confidence in the West’s ability to withstand the test of civilization has been shaken. What was unleashed on Oct. 7 threatens the West as much as it does the Mideast. (1/5)
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Ammi Hirsch
@AmmiHirsch
Apr 25, 2024
The entire philosophy of Western liberalism is under assault. Even if I am the last liberal in America, I will stand alone and warn of the pending disaster. If murder, rape, kidnapping and terrorism are wrong — it's universally wrong — even against Jews.
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Ammi Hirsch
@AmmiHirsch
Apr 28, 2024
The protests are about what they say: “Globalize the intifada.” That's social justice? Dismantling the world’s only Jewish state by murdering innocents? Woe to the students who believe these ideas, the teachers who taught them, and the administrators who do not reject them.
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Ammi Hirsch
@AmmiHirsch
Jun 15, 2025
There will come a time when the free nations of the world will thank Israel for defending Western civilization against nuclear blackmail.
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