Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Orthodox Jews and Art
Aesthetics plays an important part in the theological and philosophical tradition that started in Greece, and flowed right through the Christian intellectual world to the...
No Need for Jews to Fear Visiting Churches Anymore
My Uncle Henry introduced me to Verdi’s Requiem as a teenager, and I have been hooked on church music ever since. Sure, I ignore the theology. I...
Can We Use ‘Fake News’ to Advance a Cause?
I like the Hebrew term for the Christian festival coming up this week: Hag Hamolad, Festival of the Birth. A virgin birth, quite unbelievable. It is an...
Do We Still Need Zionism?
There have always been nationalist movements in Judaism. Hanukkah celebrates that of the Hasidim, or zealots, who fought to retain their Jewish identity. But most...
The Meaning of Hanukkah
Hanukkah celebrates the Jewish rebellion against the Syrian Greek Antiochus IV. He called himself Epiphanes, which means the wise or godlike. His subjects called him...
Thanksgiving and Preserving the Past
Thanksgiving is a festival that records a group of settlers in America surviving a very brutal winter. Some argue that these settlers brought tremendous suffering...
Remembering My Brother, Mickey
This week is the secular date of my younger brother’s death. Sibling rivalry goes all the way back to Cain and Abel. As a two-year-old, I...
Italian Talmud
The Talmud is the most defining text of Judaism as it is today -- in a way, even more so than the Bible, even though...
From Martin Luther to Alfred Balfour
Many Christians celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on October 31. In 1517, the Augustinian monk Martin Luther (1483-1546) posted his 95 theses in opposition to...
The Similar Stories of Eve and Cain
We have started the annual cycle of reading the Torah. Every year, I come to a familiar, beloved text, and invariably see something new. The Bible...
Hannah Arendt Was Wrong — but Also Right
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), the German-born American political theorist, was a regarded as a major influential thinker. In her day, she was the symbol of liberal intellectuality, and lionized...
This Yom Kippur, Ask ‘Who Am I?’
Our task on Yom Kippur is to spend time thinking about where we stand in this world: Who are we? What are we? Every year,...
Intersectionality: The New False God
When young people arrive at college today, they are likely to be confronted by a new, dogmatic orthodoxy. It has nothing to do with religion, but...
The High Holidays: A Time to Reflect
The month before the Days of Awe is the time to start thinking about our souls, rather than our politics. In the West, we have been...
