Menachem Rosensaft
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NEW YORK — After the New Jersey Jewish Standard published a single same-sex engagement announcement, the weekly newspaper announced, in response to protests from the Orthodox community, that it wou...
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NEW YORK — Who are we if not the product of our past? And sometimes we realize that the essence of our identity may have its roots a long time ago. The following incident appears in the pages of ...
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NEW YORK — Many if not most children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors live with ghosts. We are haunted much in the way a cemetery is haunted. We bear within us the shadows and echoes of a...
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NEW YORK — I take no position on whether countries should prohibit religious proselytizing. Over the centuries, Jews, especially Jewish children, have far too often been the victims of proselytizi...
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I understand why Rush Limbaugh has made a long series of abhorrent comparisons between President Obama and Adolf Hitler. His sole purpose is to shock, to offend. According to Limbaugh, President O...
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NEW YORK — Like rancid salami, Patrick Buchanan is a gift that keeps on giving. While he is careful — or under orders — to appear mainstream conservative and eminently reasonable in his frequent a...
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(Editor’s Note: On Sunday, April 18, 2010, Menachem Z. Rosensaft delivered the following speech at Bergen-Belsen, Germany at a commemoration marking the 65th anniversary of that Nazi concentration...
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NEW YORK — Assume for a moment that Bernard Madoff, from his jail cell, was to submit a sworn affidavit that he ran a legitimate business, and that he is not, and never has been, a crook. Would an...
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Some years ago, there was Binjamin Wilkomirski, the author of a purportedly autobiographical account of his years as a Jewish orphan during the Holocaust; he’s actually a Swiss-born Christian clari...
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NEW YORK — In the interest of full disclosure, I do not belong to J Street, the liberal, simultaneously pro-Israel and peace-oriented advocacy group. I am also not a member of either Chabad-Lubavic...
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“Don’t let the light go out, it’s lasted for so many years.” Peter, Paul and Mary in “Light One Candle” NEW YORK — In late December 1948, my parents said a very special Shehecheyanu prayer as th...
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NEW YORK — At a time when Judaeophobia — a more accurate term than anti-Semitism in the context of Israeli-Arab or Jewish-Muslim relations — is on a stark upswing in the Arab street, it is importan...
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NEW YORK — Cantor Azi Schwartz does not consider himself a soloist. “The role of a chazzan,” he says, “is similar to that of the first violinist or the conductor of an orchestra. A chazzan’s main ...
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One key difference between U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) and the editor-in-chief of the Polish Catholic newspaper Gosc Niedzielny (Sunday Visitor) appears to be that while the former has apologiz...
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NEW YORK — As we sat in our synagogues during the Days of Awe, we were repeatedly confronted with the importance our rabbis, our prophets and our sages have always placed on the concept of truth as...