Rabbi James Rosenberg
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“Call me Ishmael.”
This oft-quoted opening sentence from Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” is a call to confusing ambiguity. Who is this Ishmael?
Is he Melville …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/6/21
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Our story as American Jews began in September 1654, when 23 Portuguese Jews from Recife, Brazil, arrived in New Amsterdam, now the city of New York. Ever since then, ours is the story of our double …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/5/21
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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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“When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established,/What is man that You are mindful of him? The son of man that You pay attention to …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/3/21
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I have in my home library a number of volumes of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), perhaps Israel’s best-known post-state poet. Many are in the Hebrew original, others are English …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/9/21
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When I came to Barrington in the summer of 1974 to serve as rabbi of Temple Habonim (then called the Barrington Jewish Center), I made it clear at the outset that I do not believe that our Torah is …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/9/21
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I am not ashamed to say that I wept tears of relief when I heard President Joe Biden begin his inaugural address with these words: “This is America’s Day. This is democracy’s day. A …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/4/21
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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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Ever since I retired from Temple Habonim back in the summer of 2007 and we moved to our condo on the East Side of Providence, Sandy and I have been spending our Thanksgivings feasting in the Natick, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/7/21
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“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Thomas Paine in December 1776, during the dark days of our Revolutionary War, our fragile nation only 6 months old.
Today, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/3/20
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