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Lucy Rose Engels, my granddaughter, was born at 8:11 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2004, at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Lucy arrived approximately seven weeks early, and weighed in at just under three pounds …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/7/17
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Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, this past Jan. 20, a month shy of his 92nd birthday. Dr. Borowitz, the holder of two earned and three honorary doctorates, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/12/16
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On Nov. 14, Dr. Alan Daniels operated on several vertebrae in my neck to relieve severe compression on my spinal cord – a compression that had caused extreme weakness in my left forearm, wrist …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/21/17
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“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. Which leaves the matter doubtful; it could have been yesterday.” …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/17/15
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“In 1971, I met a boy who changed my life forever. I was ten and he was twelve, when for a few indelible months, we roomed together in a British-style boarding school perched on an alpine meadow high above Geneva.”
So begins a personal …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/16/15
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According to its promotional material, Combatants for Peace was founded in 2006, when “Israeli and Palestinian former fighters, people who had taken an active role in the conflict, laid …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/26/18
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Since last March, the COVID-19 pandemic has corroded and disrupted daily life the world over. Schools are closed. Businesses are shuttered – many without hope of ever reopening. …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/5/21
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Two emaciated men are starving on a raft in the midst of an unnamed sea. One of them picks up a spyglass to look more closely at a circling gull, which suddenly dives and plucks a fish from the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/4/21
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Only a handful of Americans – outside of a small but dedicated circle of cinema aficionados – have ever heard of Asghar Farhadi. I learned about him quite by accident.
In …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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7/5/19
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“One Night, Markovitch” is the first novel by the young and gifted Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen; the Hebrew original appeared in 2012, while the English translation by Sondra …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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7/1/21
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