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Beginning with the fall semester of 1980 and continuing through the spring semester of 1988, with generous support from the Jewish Chautauqua Society, I had the privilege of teaching a series of …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/31/19
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In her op-ed piece, “Rooting for Mother Teresa” (the New York Times, July 13, 2013), Ada Calhoun expresses her disappointment that Pope Francis has recently put his papal predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II on the fast track to official …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/16/13
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Several years ago, I was leading the Erev Shabbat service at Temple Habonim, which happened to fall on Friday, Dec. 25. I began my sermon/discussion that evening with the words, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/23/16
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JuSt hours before the setting of the sun ushered in the Jewish New Year of 5779, the online English edition of Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, published a major article with a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/12/18
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For many years, an essential part of my Monday morning ritual had been reading Dr. Stanley M. Aronson’s wise and erudite words on the op-ed page of The Providence Journal. In his well over 1,000 weekly columns, his topics ranged far and wide from …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/26/15
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John Ashbery, one of America’s most innovative and well-regarded poets, died this past Sept. 3 at the age of 90. As the title of Rae Armantrout’s Sept. 6 op-ed piece in the New York …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/16/17
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Back in the winter of 2012, the leader of a poetry workshop I was attending introduced us to the French term, flâneur, by having us read selections from Edmund White’s, “The Flâneur” (Bloomsbury, 2001). As suggested by the subtitle, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/19/16
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“Memory is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/4/19
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While attending an Erev Shabbat service at Temple Habonim in Barrington on Feb. 17, I had the privilege of listening to Rodrigo Pimentel tell his story. Pimentel is a soft-spoken …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/16/17
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Rabbi Andrew Klein began his Rosh Hashanah morning sermon at Temple Habonim in Barrington with the following true story:
“When our youngest niece, Jesse, was 6 or 7 years old, she came to spend a few days with her uncles in Rhode Island. On …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/7/14
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