Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Tisha B’Av: Stepping Outside Our Comfort Zones
Tisha B'Av, the Ninth Day of the Month of Av, is the second most important fast day in the Jewish calendar, after Yom Kippur....
Refugees
In the USA a debate rages over the thousands of refugees from Central America streaming across the porous southern border. The fact that in the past...
Why America?
Once again I need distraction from the painful world we live in. Who asked Hamas to send salvos of rockets into Israel? Are they doing...
Human Nature
We seem to be caught at present in a terrible battle of evil extremism. But the sad fact is that human beings have always been...
The Nonsense of State Religious Holidays
There is so much evil in the world that one almost gets inured. The senseless killing of innocents, regardless of where, is a...
Soccer is a Substitute for Warfare
They say soccer is a beautiful game, but it is also a symbol of what is wrong with society. Here is a game of skill...
GEEOHDEE
It has now become a requirement of Orthodoxy that wherever one writes the word made up of the letters GEE OH DEE in reference to...
A Human Portrait of the Rebbe (REVIEW)
Turning Judaism Outward: A biography of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, by Chaim Miller (New York: Kol Menachem Press, 2014). For the benefit of the uninitiated,...
Peace In the Middle East
Readers of my blog will know that I do not hold back from criticizing Israeli politicians and policies and that I think that "occupation," or...
Memorials and Days
We are right in the middle of all sorts of memorial days. But I wonder. Do they do any good? My late father was born in...
Shavuot: An Identity Crisis
Plato's theory of ideas and Aristotle's more empirical approach are the foundations of the Western intellectual tradition. The result of this patrimony has...
What Keeps Judaism Alive?
It is a thought often attributed to Ernest Bloch that it is anti-Semitism that, for all its perniciousness, has preserved the Jews. Of course, if...
Uses and Abuses
Muslim activists have been exerting pressure within state schools in Birmingham, U.K. to Islamize them by firing or sidelining uncooperative staff, segregating and discriminating against...
R.Michael Lerner – Embracing Israel/Palestine
I have been reading Michael Lerner's book Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East during the week of Israeli Independence Day. The...
