Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Purim or Munich?
Purim is this coming week. It's a story that can be read as being about an ineffectual, drunken leader - a disaster just waiting to...
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (REVIEW)
I have just seen a film called Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, an Israeli-French production. It is a most offensive film depicting a cartoon of...
Chaos Strengthens Israel and the Jewish People
According to the Bible, before the world was created there was chaos, Tohu VaVohu. However, it was out of chaos that something positive emerged. I...
Yeshivas Are No Longer the Domain of Holiness
"A brawl erupted at the Ponevezh Yeshiva, where a prominent rabbi, Shmuel Markovitz, was physically assaulted by a student of a rival faction, sparking...
Remembering the Jews of Salonica
While I was wondering about Jews living in Europe under difficult conditions, I was reminded of the Jews of Salonica. Once, it was one of...
Gun Control After Paris
For a long time, I have believed that the gun culture of the United States is dangerous and frankly stupid. So many people are killed...
France and Islam
I hope and pray the massive demonstration in France against the barbarians who attacked Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher market will mark a sea...
Chief Rabbis
The British Jewish community, like all communities, reflects the ethos of its host society. British conservatism, with its deference towards hierarchies and establishments, has certainly...
On Democratic Governance and Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy is a follow up to his earlier The Origins of Political...
Frenemies: Judaism and Islam
I always used to regard Islam as a religion much closer to Judaism than Christianity was. Its passionate Orientalism resonated much more with my experience...
The Judaism of Paul Celan
There are Jews who think, write, paint, and compose. But are they Jewish artists? To be an example of a bicultural person I believe one...
Why Are Good People Slaughtered by Terrorists?
As we celebrate the miracles of Hanukkah, we are bound to ask why sometimes some people are saved and at other times not. A month...
On Ferguson
The shooting of yet another young unarmed black man, this time in the town of Ferguson, Missouri, has ignited a firestorm in the United States...
A Jewish State
Is Israel a Jewish state or not? If there are avowedly Christian and Muslim states, why shouldn't Jews have a Jewish state? Clearly there are...
