| Friday, 02 March 2012 17:57 |  Rabbi James RosenbergDr. Amy-Jill Levine, author of “The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus” (HarperCollins, 2006) and co-editor of the recently published “Jewish Annotated New Testament” (Oxford University Press, 2011) is a world-class scholar. In the June 25, 2010 issue of this paper, I devoted a column to a lecture she delivered at New Bedford’s Tifereth Israel Congregation on “What Was Jewish About Jesus.” |
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| Friday, 17 February 2012 16:30 | | Rabbi James RosenbergThe phrase “between Scylla and Charybdis” has its origins in Homer’s “Odyssey”; in that classic 8th century B.C.E. work, the homeward-bound hero Odysseus needs to choose between the perils of Scylla, a six-headed monster hidden in the clefts of a rocky shoal and Charybdis, a ship-devouring whirlpool. |
| Friday, 03 February 2012 17:38 | | Rabbi James Rosenberg Nowadays, Shylock, the central character of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” is usually portrayed as a complex and tragic figure. Nevertheless, standard editions of Shakespeare’s “complete works,” list the play as a comedy – that is to say, a play with a happy ending. |
| Friday, 20 January 2012 02:52 | Rabbi James RosenbergTHE GREEK ISLAND of Zakynthos, also known by its Italian name of Zante, sits in the Ionian Sea off the west coast of the mainland. First mentioned by Homer in both “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” Zakynthos has a long and colorful history. Today the island of 158 square miles and boasting a coastline of 71 miles is a sought-after tourist destination.
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| Friday, 06 January 2012 02:50 | Rabbi James RosenbergEver since I first read “The Metamorphosis” and “The Trial” during my undergraduate years, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has been a continuing presence in my life; Kafka is always there – whether as a conscious or subconscious or unconscious presence. To wake up and find oneself transformed into a gigantic insect, to be arrested “one fine morning” without a stated or unstated cause; such scenarios strike me as so absurdly comical and yet so frightening and uncanny that I keep returning to them, or, more precisely, these scenarios keep returning to me. |
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