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Does God need us? Does God need you? Does God need me?
At first glance, these questions seem absurd … if not blasphemous. If God is God – that is to say, if God …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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7/5/24
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These are hard times for any of us who are struggling to develop or to continue our relationship with God. To echo the words of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats: “Things fall apart; the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/7/24
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From where I was seated on the bimah in the sanctuary of a Rhode Island synagogue a few months ago, there appeared to be at least 200 individuals sitting in the pews. We had gathered together …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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5/10/24
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Reading and rereading the cover story in the March 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine has made me angry and made me sad.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize and creator …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/5/24
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I set foot in Israel for the first time in June 1965. Having just turned 21 and looking forward to my senior year at Columbia come September, I was to spend most of my summer volunteering at …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/1/24
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On Sunday, April 5, 2020, I made my first entry into what I have come to call my “Covid diary.”
Four days later , on Thursday, April 9, I found myself writing about “social …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/2/24
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This column originally ran on Nov. 21, 2014, and is relevant today.
Psalm 137 – at least its first six verses – is one of the best known and best loved of our 150 psalms:
By the …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/7/24
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It was almost sundown on Friday, March 7, 1986, when David Blumenfeld, a middle-aged New York rabbi, happened to be walking down David Street in the Old City of Jerusalem, returning home after a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/3/23
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On March 28, 1935, “Triumph of the Will” – directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl – was released. The film documents the 1934 Nazi Party Congress held …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/6/23
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Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is the third in a line of Hebrew poets who have earned a place in the Israeli consciousness as “national poets.” The first of such men, Chaim Nachman …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/5/23
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