Rabbi James RosenbergIt seems to me that at the present moment our great nation is a house divided between two deeply compelling – yet radically different – visions of who we are and where we ought to be going.

Rabbi James RosenbergThe Aleppo Codex, the oldest and most accurate text of our Tanakh, our Hebrew Bible, was completed in 930 C.E. in the Galilean town of Tiberias and soon transferred to Jerusalem, where, in 1099, the Crusaders seized it.

Rabbi James RosenbergJoshua Stein died a gentle death on Saturday evening, Sept. 8, as Shabbat was flowing into the beginning of a new week; he was 68 years old. On the following Monday morning hundreds of men and women filled the pews of Providence’s Temple Emanu-El to bid him a fond and final farewell.

Rabbi James RosenbergMy wife Sandy and I were part of a small delegation of Rhode Island locals attending a program sponsored by the American Jewish Archives.  Additional attendees represented Jewish communities of Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. as well as from cities in New Jersey and Virginia.