Martin Rosenberg, a Kansas writer, is an occasional contributor to the Forward.
Martin Rosenberg
By Martin Rosenberg
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Community My Sephardic Valentine
Nearly five decades after our teen romance, the Internet brought word that Joyce has written a memoir. In it, I read of my teenage self destined for “an ordinary life.” In the theater of her own escape from her parents’ orb and adolescent angst, she never even saw me. Joyce was among the brightest at…
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Culture Portland’s Jews Celebrate Century of Sephardic Heritage
They came from a collapsing Ottoman Empire, landed in New York and were sped on their way by Jewish agencies to the verdant Pacific Northwest. They arrived in Portland and built a small community that in many ways replicated the village and small city life they abandoned along the shores of the sun-kissed Mediterranean. These…
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News Meet America’s Internet Champion of Ladino
Each year, languages slip into oblivion. Some say Ladino, or Judaismo, is on that path. But a community of Ladino speakers thrives online, and songs enlivened with Ladino lyrics are surging in popularity in Israel and Latin America. Academic interest in the language is flowering on campuses from Boston to Los Angeles. At the heart…
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News Small City Fields a Big Presence At Jerusalem Federation Parley
The 20,000 Jews living in this Midwestern city represent a statistical blip in the American Jewish population, but the community registered the equivalent of a 6 on the Richter scale last week in Jerusalem at an international gathering of communal leaders. Kansas City sent a 114-person delegation to the United Jewish Communities General Assembly —…
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News Once More, Survivors Find Comfort in One Another
Allegra Tevet, like so many others, could not take the strange, hot, fall-afternoon sun this past Sunday. So my 81-year-old mother-in-law sat in the shade of a cavernous white tent as she looked up at a big video screen at Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel speaking from the plaza outside of the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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