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Diary of a young girl in the Lodz ghetto

The diary of Rywka Lipszyc (pronounced Rif-ka Lip-shitz) is a remarkable document not only for its content but for the fact that it has come to be published 70 years after its initial discovery. In the spring of 1945, Zinaida Berezovskaya, … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 2/5/16

The authority of the written word

Michael L. Satlow’s “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale University Press, 2014) is an audacious book. Satlow, professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown, spells out his intentions in the introductory pages: “This book … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 5/22/15

The price of silence

Bontshe Shvayg, Bontshe the Silent One, “was born in silence. He lived in silence. He died in silence. And he was buried in a silence greater yet.” The great Polish Yiddish … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 4/28/16

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

‘Do the Right Thing’

I did not see Spike Lee’s widely acclaimed but profoundly controversial film, “Do the Right Thing,” when it first came out, in the summer of 1989. I finally did get around to seeing … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 2/6/22

‘My So-Called Enemy’

“My So-Called Enemy” is a feature-length documentary, available on DVD, that speaks to my mind, my heart, my soul. Lisa Gossels, director and producer of the feature-length 2010 film, explores the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 10/15/15

Who is Hanan Ashrawi?

Hanan Ashrawi – Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar – is an accomplished woman. A member of the PLO Executive Committee and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Third Way Party as well as being the first woman elected to the Palestinian … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 10/25/13

A letter from Paris chronicles events

Last Jan. 15 my wife Sandy received a nine-page email from Tom Cohen, rabbi of Paris’ Kehilat Gesher, La synagogue franco-americaine de Paris. The email wound up in my wife’s inbox because Rabbi Cohen is a first cousin of our … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 2/13/15

We are awesome too

“When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established,/What is man that You are mindful of him? The son of man that You pay attention to … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 6/3/21

To see with ‘Beginner’s Eyes’

Jon Berenson, Ph.D., has recently published “Completing the Circle: 38 Stories of Mindful Connection” (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2016), a most worthy sequel to the author’s 2013 … more

Rabbi James Rosenberg | 8/19/16