Jon Berenson, Ph.D., has recently published “Completing the Circle: 38 Stories of Mindful Connection” (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2016), a most worthy sequel to the author’s 2013 …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/19/16
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A month or two ago, my wife Sandy and I viewed on Netflix the 2015 movie “Woman in Gold.” The film is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, a World War II Jewish …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/4/16
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Nov. 4, 1995, dawned cloudless and mild in Jerusalem. As I began to rouse myself that Saturday morning in the Windmill Hotel, I saw that my 16-year-old son was stirring on the low-to-the-floor bed a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/24/16
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In my column four weeks ago (May 13), I wrote about my teacher and mentor, Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, who died Jan. 20, a month before his 92nd birthday. I noted that the first of his 17 books, “A …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/9/16
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Terezin, or Theresienstadt, was not a death camp like Auschwitz or Treblinka or Chelmno. As a matter of fact, the Nazis even permitted the Red Cross to visit it ... once.
During that …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/27/16
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Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, this past Jan. 20, a month shy of his 92nd birthday. Dr. Borowitz, the holder of two earned and three honorary doctorates, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/12/16
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Bontshe Shvayg, Bontshe the Silent One, “was born in silence. He lived in silence. He died in silence. And he was buried in a silence greater yet.”
The great Polish Yiddish …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/28/16
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As most of you know, Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, spoke at the annual Policy Conference of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, on …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/15/16
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On Saturday evening, March 5, about 80 members of the Rhode Island Jewish community came together at the Dwares Jewish Community Center, in Providence, to celebrate our collective joy in Jewish …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/13/16
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One evening last January an unsolicited and unwanted cartoon appeared in my inbox: At the center stands a caricature of a fierce-looking bearded suicide bomber, whose explosive belt is labeled MULTI-CULTURALISM. Six fawning bystanders, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/3/16
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