I KEEP fighting . Your supporting me means so much to me. I have been saying this about Rutgers but got no support.
Recently the proof has come out. The story of my life.
Yes, I am paranoid when it come to my reputation, but you remain a source of strength for me. My holocaust background left me with panic attacks and PTSD. It is sad that most Rabbis have no guts and are more concerned about keeping their jobs than speaking out for ISRAEL and AGAINST ANTISEMITSM.
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg has been nominated for the Rose Lubin Jewish Pride Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Jewish life. His efforts have created a sense of unity and shared responsibility, highlighting the importance of every Jew, regardless of geographic location. In addition to his dedication to education and community leadership, Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg has contributed significantly to the corpus of Jewish literature and Holocaust studies.
Description of the Initiative and Alignment with the Pillars of Jewish Pride and Programmatic Features.
“Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg, through his collaboration with Israel Behind the News and his deep editorial dedication, has created and fostered initiatives that not only defend the Jewish people and the State of Israel, but also perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust as fundamental means to reinforce Jewish identity and pride. His editorial work, particularly on GENESIS OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, challenges dominant narratives, promoting a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the issues facing Israel and Judaism on the world stage.
This initiative stands out in the pillars of Peoplehood, for its commitment to informing and uniting the Jewish people around common causes, Excellence, for its intellectual and critical contribution to the discourse on Israel and Judaism, and Joy, by empowering the Jewish community with knowledge and understanding that strengthens pride and connection to Jewish heritage. It meets programmatic characteristics by having measurable impact on public perception and dialogue, scalability by influencing discussions at a global level, and sustainability, through its continued work and collaboration with influential organizations.”
Nominee Leadership, Innovation and Creativity
“Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg is an ideal candidate for the Rose Lubin Jewish Pride Award because of his visionary leadership, his innovative approach to Jewish advocacy and education, and his boundless creativity in promoting Jewish pride. Through his publications and his role as editor, he has led the way in addressing critical issues affecting Judaism and Israel, combining deep scholarship with accessibility to educate and inspire a broad audience. His ability to synthesize historical, political, and theological complexities into materials that empower and educate speaks to a creative and revolutionary approach toward preserving and fostering Jewish pride.
Additionally, his leadership extends beyond the written word, being a pillar in his community and a fervent advocate for Holocaust education. His efforts to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive and his dedication to strengthening ties with Israel demonstrate continued innovation in how to approach and teach about these critical topics. Together, these qualities not only establish him as a leader in the Jewish community, but also as a pioneer in promoting Jewish pride through education, remembrance, and advocacy.”
The Rose Lubin Jewish Pride Award is a cash award intended to recognize and promote an individual whose work exemplifies leadership, innovation, and creativity through an initiative that champions the Pillars of Jewish Pride described in Michael Steinhardt’s 2022 book, Jewish Pride.
The Award is named in memory of Sergeant Rose Lubin, the Atlanta native who bravely defended and rescued victims of the infamous terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 and lost her life in a subsequent terrorist attack while guarding the Old City of Jerusalem.
By honoring individuals, organizations, and programs that exemplify the pillars of Jewish Pride, this award has the broader purpose of inspiring their adoption as central goals and aspirations throughout the Jewish world and of encouraging new initiatives based on these principles.
1989-Present Rabbi, Congregation Beth-El, Edison, New Jersey1981-1989 Rabbi, Midchester Jewish Center, Yonkers, New York1976-1981 Rabbi, First Hebrew Congregation, Peekskill, New York1974-1976 Rabbi, Hebrew Congregation of Mount Freedom, Mount
Freedom, New Jersey
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION & TEACHING:
Created a family-oriented late Friday night service;
Developed a Tot Shabbat Service for 2 to 5-year old children;
Introduced an annual Holocaust Remembrance Service;
Formed and taught adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah classes;
Prepare students for Bar/Bat Mitzvah;
Active in Kadima and USY youth services;
Served as Principal for the religious school and developed a new curriculum;
Taught adult education courses on numerous topics;
Composed booklets on marriage, kashrut and bereavement;
Coordinated interfaith programs;
Wrote proposals and grants to benefit numerous programs;
Active fundraiser for the synagogue.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor of Speech and Communications at Rutgers University, N.J.
Graduate Courses in Holocaust Education at Rutgers University, N.J.
Yeshiva University, New York Professor of Speech and communication
Pace University, New York
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Holocaust Studies at Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School, Central New Jersey and Rutgers University.
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & HONORS:
2007 – President Metuchen Edison Interfaith Clergy Association
2007 – Host Radio Program WCTC 1450 AM
2003 – Delivered Invocation United States Senate
2002 – Received the Rabbi Israel & Libby Mowshowitz Award from the New York Board of Rabbis
2002 – Elected as an officer of the New York Board of Rabbis.
Received the New York Board of Rabbis Chaplain of the Year Award.
2001 – Received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Award by the township of Edison, New Jersey
1999 – Honored by New Jersey State Senate for leadership in holocaust education.
1999-present – Founder and President of New Jersey State Children of Holocaust Survivors Group.
1998-present – Editor – New York Board of Rabbis Newsletter
Editor – The Rabbinical Assembly Holocaust Liturgy Publication
Active in Outreach to college-age population;
Created programs for inter-married couples;
Work closely with public school on Jewish religious calendar and Holocaust education;
Developed expertise in multi-cultural diversity;
Volunteer Chaplain for Police and Fire Department, Edison, New Jersey, rank—Captain;
1997-present; Chairman, Human Rights Commission of Edison, New Jersey;
Frequent guest on various radio and television programs;
Contributing columnist to various newspapers, and book reviewer for the Association of Jewish Libraries and New York Board of Rabbis;
1995 – Appointed to the New Jersey State Holocaust Education Commission by the Governor;
Associate Editor of the New Jersey State Holocaust curriculum utilized in the schools—“The Holocaust and Genocide”;
Current Interfaith Chairman for the New Jersey State Holocaust Commission;
Recipient of Governor’s Volunteer Award for work on the New Jersey State Holocaust Education Commission;
1995—Honored by the Yeshiva of Lincoln Park, Yonkers, New York, as the one who originated and launched the Yeshiva;
1994—Honored by the Township of Edison, New Jersey;
1993—Honored by State of New Jersey, the Senate and General Assembly;
1986—Received Centennial Rabbinic Award from Yeshiva University;
1986—Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Fellow
Delivered invocation at the US House of Representatives and Senate;
Member of Cable Commission for Edison, New Jersey, and host of television show;
BOOKS & ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
Theological and Halakhic Reflection on the Holocaust, published by KTAV, 1992;The Impact of Education at Yeshiva University’s James Striar School”, published by University Microfilms, International, 1993;A Guide for the Jewish Mourner, published by Flynn & Son, 1995;Contemplating the Holocaust, published by Jason Aronson Inc., 1999.
Over 100 articles published (can be furnished upon request)What the Holocaust Means to Me: Teenagers Speak Out, published by Moshe Aaron Yeshiva Press, 2002.Thoughts on the Holocaust: Where was G-d – Where was Man, published by Moshe Aaron Yeshiva Press, 2004.The Holocaust as Seen through Film published by Beth-El Publishing 2005.Public Speaking: A Guide for Study- Behr Publishing House, Inc 2008.Handbook For the Jewish Mourner- Behr Publishing House, Inc 2009.
The Rosenberg holocaust prayer book 2011
The Rosenberg holocaust haggadah 2011
The Holocaust as seen through film with bibliography 2011,
At a time when the UNITED NATIONS and other seemingly respectable organizations have launched horrendous attacks against Israel, the time has come to put the shoe on the other foot.
I implore you to make a tax-deductible gift to take UNRWA to justice at the International Criminal Court. We will charge UNRWA with the crime of incitement to murder.
The U.N. terrorist organization ‘UNRWA (United Relief and Works Agency) is exposed by Israel journalist David Bedein of Israel Behind the News at The Knesset, Jerusalem January 9, 2024.
EDISON, New Jersey — I will fight for you always. I will not lead a rally for black lives matter, nor tuches leck any one. I am here for you. “Never again” means never again.
Image: Forward
I supports conservatism, fairness, love of country, and most of all the right of Jews to be free of anti-Semitic attacks and the public discrimination proclivity. Already when Donald Trump ran in the primaries, I had faith not only that Trump would be a good president for all Americans, but he would turn over the hostile tide President Obama established against the State of Israel.
To determine his support, I met with Trump’s team in the Trump’s Tower, in Manhattan, New York City, in order to be assured his vote is the right choice. The follow-up was founding the ‘Rabbi for Trump’ group.
As a Rabbi and a teacher at Rutgers University I was harassed and threatened by a former student, who used anti-Semitic slurs and name calling against me because he received B+ grade. The media and the Jewish organizations remained silent. Till today I did not receive a single call from the university president’s office or its communications department, where he taught. The Rutgers police investigation of this case remains unconcluded.
For years I have been reporting about anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism at Rutgers University to no avail. I believe that behind the silence and oblivion hide the fashionable politically correct behavior. People prefer to stand idly by in the face of wrong and evil. Sometimes till it is too late.
I am the son of Holocaust survivors, Jewish parents who escaped from being murdered by the Nazis during World War Two. In this mass murder action the Nazis and their collaborators murdered one out of three Jews who lived in the world at that time. My parents were Jacob and Rachel Rosenberg. During the war Rachel was a slave laborer in a Nazi munitions factory. Later on she was sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. My father, Jacob Rosenberg, was sent to Auschwitz. Their entire families, except for my father’s half-sister and niece, were murdered, including my father’s first wife and children. I wake up each day with a sweat. I will not keep silent in light of any anti-Semitic incident.
My worries have now doubled with the Democrat Party veering toward anti-Israel polity and the nomination of three congresswomen who possess anti-Israel dogma, which is collective anti-Semitism. I believe that another era that has culminated in the Holocaust is at the doorsteps of today’s humanity.
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides .
The horrors of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps will soon be lost to living memory. But the recent rise in antisemitsm and the current war in ISRAEL underlines the need never to forget
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Four years after the liberation of the largest Nazi extermination camp, on 27 January 1945, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno observed: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” He came to revise that view, along with its implication that a kind of silence was perhaps the only possible response to the horror of the Holocaust. Later, he wrote that “perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man to scream”
Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments (Yad Vashem)
Please listen to my warning this time before it is too late. We need a new JDL.
Antisemitism is often considered the world’s longest form of hatred; it has existed for over two millennia. Those who grew up in the post WWII period recall that ntisemitism was avoided in public during the decades following the Holocaust, but remained prominent in private. For a period of time after the Nazi defeat in 1945, anti-Semitism lost favor in western Europe and the United States. Those who were strongly anti-Semitic were hesitant, if not embarrassed, to express it.
American Jews became an integrated part of culture and society in the postwar United States. Barriers to complete Jewish participation in business and politics fell, and Jews found few obstacles in their way as they sought to participate in American life. Anti-Semitism became a fringe phenomenon with occasional lethal manifestations in hate crimes. But even if they were fewer in number, less widespread, and less tolerated by American society, virulent anti-Semitic acts still occasionally occurred.
Recently, antisemitism is being expressed overtly. An old kind of hate has been very visible lately. High-profile entertainers and athletes have openly spouted antisemitic tropes. There’s also been a steady rise in the number of hateful incidents directed at Jewish people over the past several years. According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2022 was the highest year on record for documented reports of harassment, vandalism and violence directed against Jews. These record-breaking numbers present as part of a consistent, five-year upswing in the number of antisemitic incidents, unprecedented in the ADL’s three plus decades of data collection.
The Jews across America confront rising antisemitism with anxious resolve. The expanding use of social media by antisemites is a major concern. For years, extremism experts and historians have sounded alarms about rising antisemitism and what they say are clear warning signs of emerging fascism and extremist violence. Their warnings have only grown more dire as influential American politicians, media personalities and celebrities routinely amplify antisemitic conspiracies that have historically led to the killing of Jews.
Yet an even deeper, darker worry compounds those concerns in a community acutely aware of how antisemitism, disinformation and conspiracy theories normalize the kind of hate speech and violent incidents that foment persecution and can escalate to genocide. In many countries a significant part of the political left has become highly critical of Israel, a development that was disquieting to Jews who were once comfortable on the left and felt that their erstwhile allies had turned against Israel and all Jews. Some critics of Israel’s policies mendaciously compared them to those of Nazi Germany, and in political cartoons Jewish figures were depicted in a manner not dissimilar to Nazi propaganda.
Scholars and students of anti-Semitism struggled to distinguish between legitimate criticism of policies of the Israeli government and anti-Semitism. One-time Soviet human rights activist Natan Sharansky suggested three markers to delineate the boundary between legitimate criticism and anti-Semitism. Under his “3D test,” when one of these elements was detectable, the line had been crossed: double standards (judging Israel by one standard and all other countries by another), delegitimization (the conclusion that Israel had no right to exist), or demonization (regarding the Israeli state not merely as wrongheaded or mistaken but as a demonic force in the contemporary world). As the world watched fighting rage in Israel and Gaza, US Jews endured an increase in all three elements, and antisemitic attacks on a scale not seen during previous Middle East conflicts.
The heads of three top US colleges have pushed back against claims that they are not doing enough to combat antisemitism on their campuses. The leaders, who included Harvard president Claudine Gay, testified before the House of Representatives and showed such craven and ignorant responses to calls for genocide of Jews, that the repercussions are still occurring. Perhaps the most stupid and evil response to whether calls for genocide of Jews are harrassment was the statement that it has to turn into action for that to be the case – in other words, only if those calling for genocide actually commit it!
Jewish students at the universities have accused administrators of not protecting Jewish people since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Jewish students said they faced antisemitic threats, assault and more.
Antisemitism is an obsession. Only an obsession could motivate someone to declare a Global Day of Terror against Jews worldwide, forcing me and many other rabbis to procure police assistance or private security to protect our communities. These threats are mere bluster until they’re not.
Only an obsession could cause seemingly intelligent people to lose all sense of justice and morality and celebrate the massacres of Oct. 7.
Antisemitism, in addition to being an obsession, is also a language—a language that damages the ability to understand other people. It has idioms, vocabulary, abbreviations, and a syntax all its own. I pray that G-d will confuse the tongues of those who speak this execrable language so that they stop building their tower of hate. I cry out we JEWS are in deep trouble. OUR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN ARE IN JEOPARDY. The time machine of history has brought us back to 1933 Germany; our repeat of 1938 Kristallnacht is approaching if not already here.
I have been cautioning this was happening, but most refused to listen. America is no longer the Goldena medina for us. In Eufopd there is nowhere where antisemitism has not raised its ugly head. All the prayers and rallies will not help unless we Jews arm ourselves to the teeth as the Jews did in the days of Mordecai and Esther. We need to walk and travel in pairs or groups. Avoid the ivy league schools where there are both professors and students who wish to destroy us. The fact that millionaires are withdrawing their donations is important but that money will be replaced by funds from Arab and Muslim states which us harm and the destruction of Israel.
Most probably Facebook will not be happy with this message and put me in Facebook jail. Arutz Sheva will get the message out.
Please consider Aliyah, much of my own family is already there. I am old and not in the best of health but I fight for Jewish existence day and night. If I was a young man in good health I would start a new JDL world wide. We have a few militants but not enough. Someone must arise and arm Jews the world over.
In America and other countries professors are teaching the young that Hanas are victims and we Jews are the Nazis.
Babies are branded by Hamas, women raped and the world is basically silent..
In Europe and AMERICA AND IN FACT AROUND THE WORLD JEWS are being beaten up or murdered and Judges require very little in way of punishment.
Please listen to my warning this time before it is too late.
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Rosenberg is the, son of Holocaust survivors.
Fellow jews. If Israel is attacked on all sides and loses, we jews around the world are next. The israeli soldiers and civilians and the hostages are dying. Kiddush Hashem so that we may live. Please put out flags, posters and ribbons as a symbol of support.
DR. Bernhard Rosenberg
Credits: Photo by Haley Black, Karolina Grabowska, Oren Noam Gilor (Pexels), Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel.
There have been many attempts to annihilate the Jewish people .
Candles lit for Hanukkah (istockphoto)
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Chanukah, is a minor holiday in our calendar that has been made into a major holiday by Hallmark and Mattel toys over the years. Nevertheless, even …though Chanukah is a minor holiday like Purim it has a very and important lesson for us particularly as Jews in America today. There have been many attempts to physically annihilate the Jewish people most notably that of the Nazis in the 1940s and that of Haman in Persia some two thousand plus years ago. All those attempts thank G-d have failed.
Article 22 of the Hamas Charter describes the diabolical and insidious nature of the Jew. “They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution, and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there ….They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources. They obtained the Balfour Declaration and formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments and paved the way for the establishment of their state. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it.”
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (Wilson Center)
> The Chanukah story takes place in Israel approximately 2,000 years ago. The Syrian Greeks controlled that part of the world at that time. They were not interested in annihilating the Jews as Haman and Hitler were but rather causing them to totally assimilate and leave the Jewish faith. This is just as dangerous or almost as dangerous a threat. For if we do not survive as Jews then what value does Judaism have?! The Jews of that era fought valiantly to survive and drove the Syrian Greeks out of the Temple. They then rededicated the Temple, found oil for the Holy Menorah and therefore we have the festival of Chanukah. Chanukah means rededication as they rededicated the Temple at that time. We face a different threat today and that is voluntary self destruction. The assimilation rate here in America is frightening. We are threatening to destroy ourselves. Let us use this Chanukah season not only to sing songs, eat latkes and light the Menorah but rededicate ourselves to the real message of Chanukah: the survival of the spiritual aspect of the Jewish faith.
FELLOW JEWS. If ISRAEL IS ATTACKED ON ALL SIDES AND LOSES, WE JEWS AROUND THE WORLD ARE NEXT. THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND CIVILINANS AND THE HOSTAGES ARE DYING KIDDUSH HASHEM SO THAT WE MAY LIVE.
Please put out flags, posters and ribbons as a symbol of support.
On Monday, July 10, 2023 at 11:02:44 AM EDT, chaimdov@aol.com <chaimdov@aol.com> wrote:
Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:36 PM
A RABBI and teacher at Rutgers is harassed and threatened and the media and Jewish organizations are silent Why? what is the status of this report never heard back
I met with the Rutgers police months ago and nothing has been accomplished .A former students harassed me and called me anti-Semitic names because I gave that student a B+. I have been REPORTING for years there is anti-Semitism at Rutgers and I experienced it directly in the past .
ANTI -ZIONISM on RUTGERS campus.
When I complained years ago that this was evident in my class room , I was not believed…….
TRUTH BE TOLD
4 hours ago (edited)+Bernhard Rosenberg shut the f up jew. you arrogant zionist scum. I deserved an A in your class you gave me a fucking b+ bitch ass zionist?….Rutger’s police have notified me that the e mail address for this former student can not be found. Not a single call from the presidents office or communications dept. where I TAUGHT.president@rutgers.edu,
Dr Rosenberg speaks out
ASK THEM WHY?
The truth is people want to be politically correct.
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg Music by Ivan Luzan from Pixabay Footages by klimkin, TamieFarris, muhammadabubakar123, adege from Pixabay Images by OrnaW, Bernhard Rosenberg ( https://bernhardrosenberg.com/ )