Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
To Defend or Not to Defend: Orthodox Jews in the IDF
There is a serious battle going on in Israel, not against its external enemies or internal deficiencies, but over the issue of whether ...
What’s the Problem With Civil Marriages?
Who opposes civil marriage? It seems that religions are the main campaigners against it. Despite my love affair with Judaism I am a strong advocate...
Doctor David Granet of Glasgow: Keeping the Light Alive
It is very hard for one generation to fully understand the zeitgeist and the unique circumstances of another. This is certainly true of Jewish...
Orthodoxy and the Internet
Last Yom Yerushalayim there was a huge Charedi gathering of some 50,000 "black hats" at Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball...
On Shavuot: The Power of Imagination and Tradition
There's a Jewish internet dating service (amongst the many) called "Saw You at Sinai". I guess its name derives from the famous argument of...
Cardinal Pell’s Foot (VIDEO)
The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, Cardinal George Pell, recently took on the noted Atheist Richard Dawkins in a public debate, during the course of...
How Not To Succeed
The Economist of May 5th has a fascinating piece on why the Mormons, a relatively small USA religious sect, with a very strange history,...
The Biggest Internal Jewish Threat: Lack of Respectful Dialogue
The Talmud says that the plague that decimated Rabbi Akiva's academy nearly two thousand years ago was because they did not treat each other...
The Brinkmanship of Egyptian Gas Suppliers
Last week's news that Egypt has cancelled its agreement to sell gas to Israel sounds disturbing. But is it? Forgive my cynicism, but are...
Jewish Hair Styles and the Omer
This is "bad hair time" in religious Jewry land. Men may not shave nor have a haircut till the 33rd day (Lag) of the...
Crossing The Sea To Go Backwards
We Jews are a fractious lot. And the Hasidic world is the ultimate in bitter religious splits. Satmar, the largest dynasty today, has two...
Pesach 2012 – Oil or Occupation
In an article in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman quotes an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study showing that there...
Peter Beinart, Racism vs. Anti-Semitism
There are critics of Israel and the Jews I respect and those I do not. Peter Beinart, who has just published The Crisis of Zionism, is...
Circumcision Troubles
I have to my credit (or not) several blogs about circumcision in which I contrast my visceral antipathy towards harming a child with my loyalty...
