Rabbi James Rosenberg
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“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders ….”
So begins Chapter 6 of the 1932 novel “Light in …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/15/18
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“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned,/The best lack all …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/3/18
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Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941. He spent the majority of his childhood, including his high school years, in Hibbing, about 60 miles northwest of Duluth. His …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/18/18
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The psalmist sings: “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning! Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/4/18
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On Nov. 14, Dr. Alan Daniels operated on several vertebrae in my neck to relieve severe compression on my spinal cord – a compression that had caused extreme weakness in my left forearm, wrist …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/21/17
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While Rabbi Rosenberg is recovering from back surgery, he has chosen a past column to run in this space. This column originally appeared on April 3, 2009.
Ever since I first encountered …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/8/17
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Sept. 16, 1666, was a dark day for the tens of thousands of Jews who considered Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676) to be their Messiah; for on that day, in order to avoid the death sentence imposed upon …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/23/17
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“The Girl with Four Last Names” is the title of an essay written last spring by Sophie Schaerf in fulfillment of an assignment in her seventh-grade class in American history at Barrington …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/9/17
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George Prochnik’s “Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem” (New York: Other Press, 2016) is a difficult book to categorize: part biography, part …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/27/17
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John Ashbery, one of America’s most innovative and well-regarded poets, died this past Sept. 3 at the age of 90. As the title of Rae Armantrout’s Sept. 6 op-ed piece in the New York …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/16/17
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