In “The Heart of Loneliness” (Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company, 2016), Rabbi Marc Katz addresses a fundamental human experience: Loneliness. Although all of us are …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/20/17
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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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Several years ago, I was leading the Erev Shabbat service at Temple Habonim, which happened to fall on Friday, Dec. 25. I began my sermon/discussion that evening with the words, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/23/16
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Many of us who have been living for some time here in the greater Rhode Island Jewish community will remember repeated calls in this newspaper to find a bone marrow donor for Cranston resident Max …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/9/16
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Abu Ghosh, Israel, is a town of approximately 7,000 Palestinian Arabs 6 miles west of Jerusalem. Its roots can be traced back to about 6,000 B.C.E., making the site one of the oldest places …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/25/16
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“Hold fast to dreams/For if dreams die/Life is a broken-winged bird/That cannot fly.” So begins an eight-line poem by Langston Hughes (1902-1967), one of America’s most …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/11/16
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“Mario and the Magician,” a 40-page short story by Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was originally published in German in 1929, with an English translation a year later. At …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/28/16
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The story of my life – as it is for most of us – is a quest for meaning and purpose on my journey toward inevitable death. Like every one of us, I was born with a one-way ticket, stamped …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/13/16
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During the 1980s, I served as a part-time instructor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College, in New London. Every other spring semester, I had the privilege of teaching a course on the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/29/16
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“[T]here is no doubt that the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ resonates with Jewish beliefs and history. Jews hear the words not as divisive but as a call to moral …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/16/16
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