He received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Humanitarian Award. He also received the Chaplain of the Year Award from The New York Board of Rabbis for his efforts during and following 9-ll. On June 10, 2002 Rabbi Rosenberg was presented with the annual Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz Award by The New York Board of Rabbis.
SEN. JON CORZINE REMARKS ON RABBI BERNHARD ROSENBERG:
Rabbi Rosenberg appears frequently on radio and TV and has published hundreds of articles regarding the Holocaust. He serves on the New Jersey State Holocaust Commission and is the Chairman of the Holocaust Commission of the New York Board of Rabbis.
Does Judaism believe in reincarnation? Transmigrations of Souls
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Dear Holocaust Children Survivors and Friends around the World:
We are pleased to announce, officially, the launch of a new book named Does Judaism believe in reincarnation? Transmigrations of Souls.
Is there a soul that outlives the body? Could that soul come back to a new body carrying the memories of the former? Are there people who believe they died in the Holocaust and are reincarnated? Is there any evidence that makes reincarnation not only plausible but likely? While some authorities, such as Saadia Gaon (10th century) denied reincarnation as a Jewish concept, from the 17th century onward, leading rabbis of normative Judaism, such as the Gaon of Vilna and the Chafetz Chaim 2, referred to Gilgul Neshamot as a fact. Authored and Edited by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg.
The new Rosenberg book consists of a collection of Articles, Stories, and memories of the past lives of many Jews after the Holocaust experienced. This new edition is a “MUST READ”. A great way to honor and preserve the memories who perish during the Holocaust.
You can now order this book in Paperback and Kindle format at the following links:
ASIN: B09XMMQ92F
ASIN: B09XR8V71D
ISBN for these books are: 979-8448939662
A DAY IN OCTOBER (1992)
In this engrossing World War II drama, young Danish Jew Sara Kublitz puts her life in jeopardy — and endangers her parents — to conceal wounded resistance fighter and would-be saboteur Niels Jensen.
Watch trailer >> https://mubi.com/es/films/a-day-in-october/trailer
Warsaw Ghetto: The Unfinished Film (2010)
This documentary exposes discovered footage of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 that was later found in a buried East German archive with a simple name attached,
The Holocaust As Seen Through Film: Updated Version 2018 >> https://www.amazon.com/Rabbi-Dr-Bernhard-Rosenberg/dp/1984075314/
Conservative/Masorti Movement Expresses Anger at Immigrant Detention Centers
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Tuesday June 25, 2019
The Conservative/Masorti movement of Judaism expressed intense anger today at the status of immigrant detention in the United States, particularly reports of children being held in inhumane conditions and that a former internment camp used during World War II for Japanese-Americans at Fort Still, Oklahoma is now slated to be used as a new detention center for immigrant children.
Credit: AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
The movement issued the following joint statement:
“Today, most Americans recognize the 1940’s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent as immoral, illegal, and certainly lamentable. How tragic that America is again on the verge of incarcerating a new generation, this time of would-be immigrants. Hundreds and thousands of people are so desperate for a better life that they flee to the United States of America – knowing that the country’s leader says they are not wanted – and once here are placed in pens, cages, jails and prisons. Our government is paying for-profit companies with arguably no supervision and no oversight to hold these human beings – for unlimited time in subhuman conditions.
Judaism has a strong tradition of calling for loving the stranger (Deut 10:19) because we were strangers in a strange land. Two of the most powerful values Judaism teaches are the dignity of all creatures (k’vod habriyot) and b’tzelem Elohim, the firm belief that each and every human being is created in the image and likeness of God.
Our tradition values children. They are our future and our hope. Yet today in this country, we leave them in outdoor detention pens – with no diapers for babies, no toothpaste, no soap, often no clothes to speak of, and certainly no toys.
Children must be reunited with their families immediately and everyone seeking asylum at our borders deserves a fair hearing. We need more judges and more adjudication of asylum seekers at our borders, not more camps. We need more humanity and sympathy. Not more camps.
Further, we continue our support for a fair immigration policy that guarantees due process in immigration proceedings and protects the civil liberties of immigrants. We vehemently oppose capricious immigration raids like the one recently proposed.
To detain human beings in prison-like conditions, for undetermined amounts of time, despite the fact that they are not charged with any crime is unconscionable. Today’s transfer of children is only the first of many critical steps needed. The detention centers must be closed. Now. The United States of America and the Jewish community know this all too well from our histories. When we say never again, we mean it.”
Rabbinical Assembly
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Cantors Assembly
Jewish Educators Assembly
The Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish Youth Directors Association
Masorti Olami
MERCAZ Olami
MERCAZ USA
Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano
The North American Association of Synagogue Executives
To protest for reading of P is for Palestine in Highland Park Public Library, Edison NJ
WE THE PEOPLE ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OR EXPLAIN A POSITION ON AN ISSUE OR POLICY:To protest for reading of P is for Palestine in Highland Park Public LibraryThis is to protest the rescheduling of any presentation by Golbarg Bashi to the children of our community, where the presentation is under the auspices of the Public Library (a quasi-government body), supported by taxpayers, which would give credence to her unabashed ant-Semitic and pro BDS views.PETITION: regarding P is for Palestine. Please sign and forward to your friends. Send to trustees@hpplnj.org,Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Please sign & share >> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/protest-reading-p-palestine-highland-park-public-library
The term “never again” should be a lesson which Judaism teaches to the world.
RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG ARTICLE
Regarding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comparing the border situation to Nazi concentration camps, she may or may not have said this on purpose to push our buttons . She just got millions of dollars of free publicity and her followers love it.
Rep. Cheney, of Wyoming, begged Ocasio-Cortez to “spend just a few minutes learning” the history of the World War II genocide, tweeting that “6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.”
Ocasio-Cortez shot back at Cheney minutes after her posting.”Hey Rep. Cheney, since you’re so eager to ‘educate me,’ I’m curious: What do YOU call building mass camps of people being detained without a trial? How would you dress up DHS’s mass separation of thousands children at the border from their parents?” Cortez knows how to manipulate the press. She is neither stupid nor naïve. This was the wrong issue to attack her on and she is using the uproar to her own advantage.
Concentration camps were not a Nazi invention. Anna Lind-Guzik writes ” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various imperial forces — including the British and Germans in their African colonies, the Spanish in the Caribbean, and Americans in the West — engaged in the practice of rounding up civilians into concentration camps as a tactic to suppress indigenous guerrilla warfare. By isolating the civilian population, fighters had fewer places to hide. Large populations of mostly women and children were held in terrible, quasi-permanent conditions, without trial, and died en masse from disease, malnutrition, and exposure.”
The term itself comes from reconcentración, a Spanish policy deployed against Cubans in the 1890s, which was then reused by the British during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902.
Applying the term “concentration camp” to the indefinite detention without trial of thousands of civilians in inhumane conditions — under armed guard and without adequate provisions or medical care may be an affront to many holocaust survivors and their children , however as human beings the Holocaust should have taught the world an important lesson about speaking out for humanity when humans are ill treated . This after all is the United States of AMERICA, the land of the free and the home of caring and sensitive people. In memory of the 6 million Jews who perished because they were considered less than human, I will not accept my government treating migrants, especially children like animals . Lock up those who have criminal records or send them back to their country of origin.
The term “never again” should be a lesson which Judaism teaches to the world. http://bernhardrosenberg.com/
HOLOCAUST WAS THE MURDER OF SIX MILLION JEWS by Bernhard Rosenberg
The Holocaust is the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis. The term Holocaust literally means a fire that causes total destruction .Yehuda Bauer, one of the world’s most eminent historians of the Holocaust, differentiates between the term genocide and Holocaust by defining the term genocide as partial murder .While there have been numerous instances of genocide, the total annihilation of a people was never an officially sanctioned purpose of a national government as it was in Nazi Germany. It is precisely this which differentiates the Nazi action against the Jews from other genocidal attempts against a people.
The Nazis wished to conquer the world and therefore threatened the very existence of every single Jew in the world. The principle target of the Nazis was always the Jews. Yes, it is true that as many as 50 million human beings were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. The Nazis destroyed the lives of Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, communists, socialists, trade unionists and religious opponents. But it was only the Jews who were singled out for the Final Solution.
The Jews, according to Hitler were maggots, a virus that had to be eliminated. Hitler saw himself as the German Messiah doing God’s work by destroying the Jew. Let us not forget that all people with three or four Jewish grandparents were sentenced to death. Regarding the Polish population, there were no plans for total annihilation. Slavs were looked upon as being inferior Aryans; however Slovaks, Croats, and Bulgarians were Slavs who served as German allies, It was only the Jew that Hitler and the Nazis considered to be like the Devil and therefore inhuman. In the Jew Hitler saw the image of Satan. According to Hitler it was only the Jew who wished to dominate the world, and it was the Jew Hitler wanted to destroy.
Hitler and the Nazis created a policy of selective mass murder against the homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, prisoners of war, Catholic priests, Jehovah’s Witnesses’, the physically and mentally disabled, dissidents and others. But it was the Jew that was seen as a virus, a bacillus that had to be destroyed before it infected the entire world. It was the Jews who poisoned the mind of mankind. The policy of making the world Judenrein applied to the entire world. The group Hitler hated above all was the Jews. He made himself the supreme racist.
In his final hours, Hitler continued to urge the destruction of the Jew . Hitler had diverted trains and soldiers to Concentration camps when he desperately needed them for the war effort. Germany was destroyed due to this mad man and at the end all he could think about was murdering more Jews.
This mad man was responsible for the murder of my grandparents, two siblings, uncles, aunts, and cousins. My father, Jacob, of blessed memory survived Auschwitz and my mother, Rachel of blessed memory survived Skazyskokarmiene. I became a Rabbi to do everything in my power to prevent another Holocaust and to teach the world the lessons of the Holocaust. My fear is that after the death of the final Holocaust survivor and eventually the death of the children of Holocaust survivors, history will be re-written and the Holocaust will no longer be a Jewish issue but rather a universal one. The number will no longer be The 6 million Jews but rather or 50 million casualties of war. Many still persist in saying there were six million Jews and 5 million non- Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. We all should mourn and honor those who fought and died, Jew and non-Jew alike. However, let us never forget and always remember that it was the Jews who were the primary target of Hitler and the Nazi regime. The historian Yehudah Bauer wrote;’ Simon Wiesenthal, as he admitted to me in private,( invented the figure six million Jews and five million non-Jews) inorder to create sympathy for the Jews- in order to make the non-Jews feel they are part of us.’
I was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany of Polish parents. I came to America as a refugee. I pray that the Holocaust and the memory of those who perished will be kept alive by our grandchildren and future generations.
LET US NOT DILUTE THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST BY STRESSING HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE. WHILE IT IS IMPORTANT TO STRESS THAT WE SHOULD NEVER BE INNOCENT BYSTANDERS WHILE OTHERS ARE MUREREDED OR DISRCRIMINATED AGAINST, WE ALSO SHOULD NEVER DILUTE THE SINGULAR SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST. I FEAR THAT 50 YEARS FROM NOW THE HOLOCAUST WILL BE FORGOTTEN AND BECOME ONLY A DATE IN HISTORY TOGETHER WITH OTHER GENOCIDES. I WILL DO ALL I CAN NOW TO PREVENT THIS.
The Holocaust As Seen Through Film: Updated Version 2018
Kansas City native Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg has devoted much of his life to making sure the horrors of the Holocaust will not be forgotten. The rabbi also wants to make Holocaust history easier to learn and to remember.
Case in point is Rabbi Rosenberg’s newest book now on sale. The lengthy title and front cover description provide a top-line overview: “The Holocaust As Seen Through Film: Updated Version 2018. A teacher’s guide to movies, documentaries and short films that will impact your students and spark dynamic classroom discussion.”
This revised and updated version of Rabbi Rosenberg’s 2014 book contains 24 additional pages of new material featuring reviews and information of films released since the initial publication. Rabbi Rosenberg said because “I knew the family” he brings attention to the updated edition containing a review of Big Sonia, the award-winning documentary filmed in Kansas City. Other films reviewed in the updated edition include “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” “Woman in Gold” and “Inglourious Bastards.”
One’s first impulse is to consider Rabbi Rosenberg’s work an updated textbook for teaching purposes only. “The Holocaust as Seen Through Film” provides historical aspects of the atrocity with literature complying with new common core standards through the pictures, questions, discussions and research associated with each story. The book includes teaching techniques applicable to settings in schools, synagogues or the home. “For any teacher or rabbi lacking materials for a program, it’s all there,” Rabbi Rosenberg said of his book. “I give it to teachers and away they go.”
But the book has value beyond the education arena. Rabbi Rosenberg said films have the ability to provide insight to the Holocaust from different points of view including historic, dramatic and comedic.
“Watching a film is better than sitting through a lecture and easier than reading a book,” Rabbi Rosenberg said. “Some of the videos can hit you and when that happens you learn a lot.”
The breadth of Holocaust-related films reviewed in the book is beyond what can be discovered with a top-line internet search. Rabbi Rosenberg points out that when searching online for “Holocaust films,” search engines provide top-10 lists or titles of specific films and documentaries. His book provides a thorough, hands-on summary of primarily feature-length Holocaust-themed films produced for the theater and television. The book also addresses the respective influence of those films.
Rabbi Rosenberg is retired and lives in Edison, New Jersey. He has donated copies of his book to the New Jersey public school system. The New Jersey State Holocaust Commission has recommended the book for the classroom and community. Rabbi Rosenberg donates his profits from the book to Holocaust museums.
“This book is of value to everyone, not just Jewish people,” Rabbi Rosenberg said. “It’s being used in non-Jewish school for non-Jewish teachers for non-Jewish students.”
The book is available through Amazon and on Kindle.
Rabbi Rosenberg teachings, books and articles. 