Harris N. Rosen – “Hershey” to many of us – is known and respected throughout Rhode Island for his numerous acts of charity. Just recently, Rosen has again demonstrated his community-mindedness by self-publishing an invaluable self-help …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/30/13
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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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Howard Jacobson (b. 1942), the well-respected British author, begins his speech at the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem in the fall of 2013 with three succinct and depressing sentences: “The question is rhetorical. When will Jews …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/12/15
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I set foot in Israel for the first time in June 1965. I had just turned 21 and was to spend most of my summer volunteering at K’far Menachem, a Mapam (seriously socialist) kibbutz located …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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8/24/17
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I am not, nor have I ever been, a supporter of the BDS movement, which aims to protest Israel’s settlement policies through Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions directed against the state of …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/19/18
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My wife Sandy and I spent the first weekend of this month at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. We were among the 50 or so students who attended a program entitled “The Family Singer: Three Siblings and their Stories.” Under the able …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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11/22/13
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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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“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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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 the morning of Sept. 15, 2021, members of Barrington’s Temple Habonim gathered together to celebrate Yom Kippur, 5782. All of us, having recently tested negative for COVID, and wearing …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/3/23
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