Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Celebrating the Hebrew Language
Where did the Hebrew language come from? When did it begin? What language does God speak? And, for that matter, what language did the snake...
The Sad Story of Eliyahu
This is a sad story. For obvious reasons, I am changing names and certain details to protect the memory of a brilliant, flawed person. Eliyahu was...
The Case Against Media ‘Objectivity’
Who really believed in the objectivity of journalists? As students we used to debate which was preferable: the Western system of arbitrary rich men owning...
Pesach: Just Do It
"Just do it” is, of course, the Nike's slogan, but I think we Jews should adopt it. Let me explain. Why is Pesach, or Passover, so...
The Mortara Affair and Christian-Jewish Relations
The story of Edgardo Mortara is a scandalous example of Christian theological cruelty and arrogance towards Jews. In the 19th century, six-year-old Edgardo Mortara was seized by...
Mazal: Hope or Superstition
We have just celebrated Purim, a festival named after the lottery, the pur, that nearly decided the fate of the Jewish people. But the randomness of...
Jewish Identity, Through the Eyes of Benjamin Disraeli
We may think that current political discourse is crude and vicious. But, believe me, beneath a veneer of gentility, politics in the British Empire was...
Demolishing the Spurious, Libelous Claim That Israel Is an Apartheid State
Benjamin Pogrund was born in South Africa. As a journalist, he fought the apartheid regime, most notably through his work for The Rand Daily Mail. When...
Remembering My Friend, Jack Lunzer
Jack Lunzer, who died this past December, was famous for his collection of Jewish books, texts and incunabula. It was the largest collection of Judaica...
Praying for Our Country
It is amusing and disturbing to see the demonstrations against an elected president, not so much for what he has done, but for who he...
Magda Goebbels and Haim Arlosoroff
Professor Colin Shindler -- a celebrated historian who has written extensively on Zionism and famous rivalries of Israeli politics and an outspoken moral and intellectual voice against oppression and...
Children’s Cultural Identities
We all know about how much damage parents can do to children. But sometimes society, even when it means well, can do much worse. Yair...
Too Much Empathy Can Be a Bad Thing
Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale University, has just published a book entitled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. The book raises some excellent...
Being Poor in Jerusalem: Pre-1967 Memories
After I graduated from Cambridge University, I went to study at Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. The yeshiva was located in a small industrial quarter, sandwiched between Meah...
