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Many of us who have been living for some time here in the greater Rhode Island Jewish community will remember repeated calls in this newspaper to find a bone marrow donor for Cranston resident Max …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/9/16
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Abu Ghosh, Israel, is a town of approximately 7,000 Palestinian Arabs 6 miles west of Jerusalem. Its roots can be traced back to about 6,000 B.C.E., making the site one of the oldest places …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/25/16
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“Hold fast to dreams/For if dreams die/Life is a broken-winged bird/That cannot fly.” So begins an eight-line poem by Langston Hughes (1902-1967), one of America’s most …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/11/16
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“Mario and the Magician,” a 40-page short story by Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was originally published in German in 1929, with an English translation a year later. At …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/28/16
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The story of my life – as it is for most of us – is a quest for meaning and purpose on my journey toward inevitable death. Like every one of us, I was born with a one-way ticket, stamped …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/13/16
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During the 1980s, I served as a part-time instructor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College, in New London. Every other spring semester, I had the privilege of teaching a course on the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/29/16
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“[T]here is no doubt that the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ resonates with Jewish beliefs and history. Jews hear the words not as divisive but as a call to moral …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/16/16
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On Friday evening, June 17, I was one of about 100 people attending the fifth annual LGBTQ Pride Shabbat at Temple Habonim, in Barrington. The service was one of a large number taking place …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/1/16
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Jon Berenson, Ph.D., has recently published “Completing the Circle: 38 Stories of Mindful Connection” (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2016), a most worthy sequel to the author’s 2013 …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/19/16
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A month or two ago, my wife Sandy and I viewed on Netflix the 2015 movie “Woman in Gold.” The film is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, a World War II Jewish …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/4/16
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