Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Reconnecting With the Spark of Judaism
The Hebrew month of Elul, which leads to the New Year, brings daily shofar blasts, extra prayers, selichot, and the serious mood of anticipation of...
Patriotism and the National Anthem
There has been a huge amount of debate in the US about the refusal of a Colin Kaepernick, an American football player, to stand during...
We Can Be Mother Teresa, Too — or Better
Mother Teresa has become Saint Teresa! She was born in 1910, in what is now Macedonia. She joined a religious sisterhood in Ireland and then took vows...
Petty Orthodoxy
Thetorah.com is a website that analyzes the weekly reading of the Torah for people who do not take every word in the Torah literally. In addition to valuing...
The Secret War Against the Jews
It is no secret that nations spy on each other. They always have. Just think of Moses and Joshua sending spies into Canaan. That’s what...
Black Lives Matter — But the Movement Is Flawed
Black Lives Matter indeed, and so they ought to, all the more for what African-Americans have had to endure. But the organization, however noble and justified...
Mourning the Temple
The Temple has been the most significant building in Jewish history. The Fast of Av commemorates two occasions when it, Jerusalem and the Jewish state...
What Is True Modesty?
In the world we live in, there seems to be little room for modesty. Where absolutely every nook and cranny of the human body is...
I’m Proud to Be a ‘Zio’
I was once standing in line to board a plane at Stansted Airport, and found myself next to a gentleman who appeared, to my trained...
Conversion Confusion
We know well enough by now that the status of conversions to Judaism is an unholy, inconsistent, politicized and often corrupt mess. As a people...
The Gift of Jewish Chaos
The Fractured Republic is a book by Yuval Levin, subtitled “Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism.” He regrets the tendency to think...
Remembering Rabbi Louis Jacobs
I will be delivering a memorial lecture this week for Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs, a very controversial figure in Anglo-Jewry in my youth. He was the...
The Insanity of Guns in America
I know I am expected to write about Brexit this week -- a classic conflict between a great concept and a corrupt, incompetent, bureaucratic misexecution...
Hating Jews in Ancient Times and Today
In 1943, even before the full story of Nazi inhumanity was revealed, Joshua Trachtenberg published The Devil and the Jews, a brilliant analysis of how the...
