Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg
‘HMT Dunera,’ the scandal and the salvation
Overlooking the Mount
Rome and Jerusalem
Out of the trenches
We still have the original telegram, a precious family heirloom.
Why was the Book of Ruth written?
On the festival of Shavuot (Pentecost), the season of the barley harvest, we read the bucolic tale of Ruth the Moabite lady, a poor widow exiled in the land of Judah.
Who was the pharaoh of the Exodus?
There is nothing in the Egyptian records linking Ramesses to the Exodus, and indeed nothing at all in the records about the Israelites and their slavery.
In the palace of Shushan
The Book of Esther is a wonderful story of the triumph of good over evil, as exemplified by the beautiful Queen Esther and the wicked minister Haman, but it is no fairy tale.
Let West Gaza be Palestine
The money is there, the space is there and all it needs now is the traveling diplomacy John Kerry, Tony Blair, and the goodwill of the Egyptians, the Arabs and the Israelis.
Three cheers for Hanukka
The Talmud did not seem to know of the Second Book of Maccabees, which was written in Egypt.
Toujours la pushinesse
By car may be more comfortable, but driving on the streets is another pain.
What is a ‘succa’?
A succa is a structure, albeit temporary, but nevertheless a structure and not just a tent and certainly not a cloud.
Ninety-nine years ago, out of the trenches and beyond
Ninety-nine years ago my father was wounded by shrapnel from an enemy shell.
The Sinai plan
A 20 km slice, north to south, could be given to the Gazans to camp in while their cities are rebuilt.
