Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Water: Rethinking Our Consumption
Most of us in the West take water for granted. When I was growing up, I don't recall ever hearing about droughts, hosepipe bans,...
Innocence of Religion
The pathetically incompetent film "Innocence of Muslims" has sparked off the usual and predictable riots and murder around Muslim streets and illustrates perfectly the cultural chasm...
Fear and Trembling: The Days of Awe and Israel’s Strike
They are called the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, these ten days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kipur. But I would argue that the...
What’s Wrong With State Education?
My years of suffering through the English educational system, and actually running a school, gave me a very jaundiced view of schools in...
Tom Carew and Bongani Masuku
Amongst the few voices of sanity and balance is an Irishman of note by the name of Tom Carew. I know him only through friends...
Kickstarting a Healthy Marriage With an Abundance of Blessings
There's been a lot of discussion this past year about marriage--what it is and what it means to different people. Since my son, Avichai,...
Ezra Golombok – Glasgow’s Idealist Jew
Life is enriched by the range and variety of the people we encounter. Increasingly nowadays we confine ourselves to mental ghettos. Even within...
The Song of the Soul, the Song of the Nation
I know I am supposed to love all of God's creatures and more specifically, every Jew. Ahavat Yisrael, it is called. Every day of my...
The Witch Hunting Mentality
The American women gymnasts won the team gold and the team captain Aly Raisman ended their performance with a flawless dance routine to the...
Another False Messiah, Shabtai Zvi
The fast on the Ninth of Av, Tisha B'Av, commemorates both the Babylonian and the Roman destructions of Jerusalem and the First Temple, ...
James Joyce and the Jews
A recent biography of James Joyce (by Gordon Bowker) reminds me why I have such a soft spot for him. Much has been written about Jews in...
Higgs Boson and God
In 1964 the physicist Peter Higgs suggested that there had to be a crucial particle (a boson) that helped explain how matter could emerge...
Itsu Kaszirer 1922-2012
My father-in-law of 24 years, Itsu Kaszirer, died on the second of Tammuz at the age of 90, in Antwerp. He was a remarkable man...
The Dynamism of Chabad Franchises
The Chabad (Lubavitch) Chasidic movement is one of the phenomena of our time. It originated in Eastern Europe. Its transplantation to the USA in...
