Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
The Quiet Sages of Jerusalem
The Jerusalem I first came to in 1958 was a very different and much smaller town than the Jerusalem of today. There was no Old...
Why We Fast: To Learn the Dangers of Jewish Division
On the Seventeenth of Tammuz, we began the period known as the Three Weeks that culminate in the fast of the Ninth of Av (this...
Orthodox Judaism Must Embrace Female Rabbis
The issue of female rabbis in Orthodox Judaism has come to the fore again -- this time through a petition before the Israeli Supreme Court...
Learning From the Past: Reckless Jewish Kings Through the Ages
The Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz that we have just passed initiates a three-week period of mourning for the loss, twice, of Jerusalem and...
Should Statues Have Been Erected in the First Place?
All of a sudden it has become fashionable in the US to take down or demolish some statues. There is a case to be made...
The Experience and Meaning of Prayer
We are living in a fraught, unpredictable world of conflicting values and policies -- so I am returning to an earlier post about prayer. What...
Wellesley Tudor Pole and Living Our Best Lives
Plagues often bring out soothsayers and those who predict the end of days. Why else is Nostradamus still popular? Every culture has its unusual characters...
Exploring the Rebbe in the Social Realm
Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Transformative Paradigm for the World by Philip Wexler (with Eli Rubin and Michael Wexler). There is no shortage of books that...
Jeffrey Epstein and Maimonides
I needed distraction from hypocrisy, politics, demonstrations, and looting this past week, so I watched a series on Netflix called “Filthy Rich.” It is about...
The Passion and Modern-Day Christian Antisemitism
What does primitive medieval antisemitism have to do with us here and now? The Passion Play, or Easter pageant, is a traditional Christian drama about the...
The Book of Ruth and Shavuot
The Book of Ruth, which is read on the Festival of Shavuot, is one of the shortest books in the Bible. On the face of it,...
Prayer in the Time of Coronavirus
The great advantage of having to pray alone during this period of lockdown is that one can actually take the time to pay attention to...
World War II and the Post-COVID World
May 8th is the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945. It marks the final defeat of the Nazis,...
Judaism’s Priorities During Coronavirus and Other Times
My nephew Dov, a philosopher, scholar, and rabbi of YAKAR Jerusalem, sent me an essay he recently published entitled “On Social Distancing and Deontology.” It...
