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On Dec. 13, President Joe Biden signed into law the Respect for Marriage Act, which ensures that residents of all 50 states have the right to enter into same-sex and interracial marriages.
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/6/23
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Ever since its founding on May 14, 1948, Israel has struggled to maintain its delicate balance between being a Jewish state and a democratic one.
Even the most casual visitor to Israel cannot …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/23/18
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In a Sept. 23, 2016, op-ed in The New York Times titled “Will the Left Survive Millennials?” novelist Lionel Shriver summarized her talk at the Brisbane (Australia) Writers Festival …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/16/17
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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 …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/6/20
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Almost every Jew knows that we read the Megillah, the scroll of Esther, every year on Purim. However, while we customarily refer to Megillat Esther as THE Megillah, we read four additional megillot (scrolls) during our liturgical year: Ruth on …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/24/14
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Ari Shavit’s “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel” is a bittersweet love letter addressed to all those who want to see Israel succeed as a democratic Jewish state.
The subtitle suggests why bitter (“Tragedy”) and why …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/30/14
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Dahlia Rabin Pelossof (b. 1950), daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, is an impressive woman. A lawyer by profession, she served as a liberal member of Israel’s Knesset from 1999 to 2003. In recent …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/5/17
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Many, if not most, of us American Jews carry in our heads and hearts a sense of three separate but interrelated Israels: Am Yisrael, the people of Israel – that is, all Jews everywhere; Eretz …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/5/20
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I came to the “My Six-Word Memoir” exhibit at gallery (401) at the Dwares JCC about a week before it was scheduled to close on April 11. Within minutes, I realized that I could not absorb what was before me in a single visit; so I arranged to …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/9/14
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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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