Rabbi James Rosenberg
156 results total, viewing 1 - 10
|
“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 …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
6/3/21
|
|
|
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 …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
5/9/21
|
|
|
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 …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
4/9/21
|
|
|
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 …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
3/4/21
|
|
|
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. …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
2/5/21
|
|
|
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, …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
1/7/21
|
|
|
“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, …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
12/3/20
|
|
|
The day after William Jefferson Clinton was inaugurated as our 42nd president, on Jan. 20, 1993, I wrote a poem beginning with these words: “Maya Angelou read a poem/Yesterday, not any …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
11/6/20
|
|
|
I have been a fan of Thomas L. Friedman ever since I read his 1989 book, “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” a perceptive, nuanced look at Israel’s involvement in the seemingly infinite …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
10/2/20
|
|
|
“The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal – the redness and the horror of …
more
Rabbi James Rosenberg
|
9/3/20
|
published by
