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Stephen Greenblatt “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.

“The image of the man and the woman in the perfect garden suggests a tension between things as they are and things as they might have been. It conveys a longing to be other than what we have … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 3/6/19

Words that come from the heart

Beginning with the fall semester of 1980 and continuing through the spring semester of 1988, with generous support from the Jewish Chautauqua Society, I had the privilege of teaching a series of … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 1/31/19

The cost of denial

When my wife, Sandy, and I sat down this past fall to view the 2011 Israeli film “The Flat” (“Hadirah”) on Netflix, we had no idea that we were about to see a documentary … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 1/10/19

‘The Earth is the Lord’s’

Those of us who celebrated Thanksgiving here in Rhode Island do not need to be reminded that despite the warmth of family and friends around our holiday tables, the weather outside was … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 12/20/18

Honor thy father

What binds together the 10 short stories in Daniel Shansky’s “Decalogue” (Curly’s Mojo, publisher, 2018) is that each of them is a commentary, directly or indirectly, … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 12/6/18

Jewish immigrants of New York through the eyes of our photographers

On the weekend of Oct. 26-28, I once again traveled to the Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While almost all of the previous weekend programs I have attended have been devoted to … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 11/22/18

‘Cruel, only to be kind’

The 2012 Oscar-winning film “Life of Pi” is based on Yann Martel’s bestselling novel of the same name. Both the movie’s director, Ang Lee, and the screenwriter, David … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 11/8/18

The magic carpet of literature

I read Saul Bellow’s novel “Herzog” in the late ’60s, when I was a rabbinical student in Manhattan and living the joys and the challenges of a young marriage (which has now … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 10/25/18

‘The chosen people’ or ‘a chosen people’?

JuSt hours before the setting of the sun ushered in the Jewish New Year of 5779, the online English edition of Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, published a major article with a … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 10/12/18

Con smania, with passion

In the June 22 issue of The Jewish Voice, I reviewed “Road to Valor” (Crown, 2012), a celebration of the life of the world class Italian cyclist, Gino Bartoli (1914-2000). The … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 9/20/18