Reading and rereading the cover story in the March 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine has made me angry and made me sad.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize and creator …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/5/24
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I set foot in Israel for the first time in June 1965. Having just turned 21 and looking forward to my senior year at Columbia come September, I was to spend most of my summer volunteering at …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/1/24
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On Sunday, April 5, 2020, I made my first entry into what I have come to call my “Covid diary.”
Four days later , on Thursday, April 9, I found myself writing about “social …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/2/24
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This column originally ran on Nov. 21, 2014, and is relevant today.
Psalm 137 – at least its first six verses – is one of the best known and best loved of our 150 psalms:
By the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/7/24
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It was almost sundown on Friday, March 7, 1986, when David Blumenfeld, a middle-aged New York rabbi, happened to be walking down David Street in the Old City of Jerusalem, returning home after a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/3/23
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On March 28, 1935, “Triumph of the Will” – directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl – was released. The film documents the 1934 Nazi Party Congress held …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/6/23
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Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is the third in a line of Hebrew poets who have earned a place in the Israeli consciousness as “national poets.” The first of such men, Chaim Nachman …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/5/23
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It was in the early ’60s when I first became acquainted with the luminous writing of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972); I was at a camp in Clinton, Connecticut, attending a week-long …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/3/23
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My first encounter with Harold Bloom (1930-2019), Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, was in the early ’80s, when I was teaching a seminar-style class in Jewish mysticism at Connecticut …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/4/23
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In the late ’60s, in the very first years of our marriage, Sandy and I were living in a tiny rent-controlled apartment ($79.66 per month) in the northernmost Irish and Italian neighborhood in …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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7/7/23
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