Nov. 4, 1995, dawned cloudless and mild in Jerusalem. As I began to rouse myself that Saturday morning in the Windmill Hotel, I saw that my 16-year-old son was stirring on the low-to-the-floor bed a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/24/16
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The Jan. 22, 2021, issue of The New York Times includes an article by Corey Kilgannon titled, “Michael Cohen’s Prison of Choice: Well-known to Jewish Offenders.”
The article …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/6/22
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We entered the plaza to the sounds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men screaming insults and throwing garbage. The difference this week was that instead of the police dragging women off in handcuffs they made a barrier of blue uniforms holding back a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/21/13
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My favorite philosopher, Yogi Berra, is said to have quipped, “Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future.” Another, related, alleged “Yogi-ism” is: …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/5/22
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“The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal – the redness and the horror of …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/3/20
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George Prochnik’s “Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem” (New York: Other Press, 2016) is a difficult book to categorize: part biography, part …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/27/17
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“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned,/The best lack all …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/3/18
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Toward the end of this month, as the sun sets on Sunday, Sept. 25, Jews throughout the world will be welcoming the new year of 5783.
Like all major Jewish holy days, our Rosh Hashanah …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/8/22
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Throughout the Jewish world, Shabbat Shemot is the Sabbath on which the opening chapters of Exodus, verses overflowing with action and mystery, are read in our synagogues. I am particularly drawn to the first 15 verses of the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/30/15
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“SITTING IN THE CIRCLE: Sacred Observations from the Heart and Other Internal Organs” (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2013) is a thing of beauty in multiple senses of the word. As a work of father and son, it celebrates the warmth and beauty of …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/10/13
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