Rabbi Rosenberg has been away from his desk. He has requested that we reprint his well-received column from April 3, 2009, which appeared in what was then the Jewish Voice & Herald.
Ever …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/3/22
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The Jan. 22, 2021, issue of The New York Times includes an article by Corey Kilgannon titled, “Michael Cohen’s Prison of Choice: Well-known to Jewish Offenders.”
The article …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/6/22
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I first saw the Israeli film “Walk on Water” on a rainy weekend afternoon back in May of 2005, at the Avon, on Thayer Street in Providence. I left the theater somewhat confused, but …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/1/22
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/6/22
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I did not see Spike Lee’s widely acclaimed but profoundly controversial film, “Do the Right Thing,” when it first came out, in the summer of 1989. I finally did get around to seeing …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/6/22
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For many of us, this past Thanksgiving was a world apart from the Thanksgiving we celebrated – or failed to celebrate – a year ago.
On Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, my wife Sandy and I sat …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/10/22
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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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I have known Mark Binder – author, story-teller, longtime resident of Providence’s East Side – for decades. During my 33 years as rabbi of Temple Habonim, in Barrington, Binder …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/7/21
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When Martin Buber wrote, in his classic book, “I and Thou” (“Ich und Du,” 1923), that “all real living is meeting,” little could he have envisaged the nuanced …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/9/21
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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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