Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Let the Mormons Baptize Jews After Death, Who Cares?
Candidates for the Republican nomination for president have brought the Mormon Church right into the public eye. No doubt the successful, clean living,...
Purim and Politics
Purim is all about appearances and how misleading they can be (disguise). Normally we like to think that "what you see is what you get". But...
Legendary Rabbi Kopul Rosen 1913-1962
On March 1st several hundred pupils of Kopul Rosen will gather at his graveside on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem to remember him on...
Thinking, Fast and Slow – A Must Read
I must recommend Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was won over at the very start when he describes his conversations ...
Valentines Day: How Will You Celebrate?
Just as we Jews are caught up in our internal conflicts between those who want no religion and those who want too much, a...
The Failure of Charedi Leadership and the Grassroots Emergence
For several weeks now I have been trying to explain, in as rational and balanced a way as I can, the tensions that exist...
Charedim and the Costa Concordia Captain
The world press had a field day over the sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise liner off the Italian coast. We can now...
Jew Versus Jew
There's a cute joke doing the rounds in Israel at the moment that my friend, Edward Cohen, sent me. It's an adaptation of a...
Greek Wisdom In The 21st Century
In the latest New York Review of Books, Mary Beard, a popular lecturer, blogger, and professor of classics at Cambridge University, bemoans the ...
Book Review: Kosher Jesus
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Gefen Publishing House. Once again Shmuley Boteach has ventured bravely into an area that most Jews prefer...
Modern Day Lessons from the Chanukah Story
The story of Chanukah we hear year in and year out is about the triumph of the gallant few Maccabee rebels against the might...
Hillary Clinton & Modesty
Hillary Clinton, bless her, chose to berate Israel at a closed conference recently for its attitudes towards women. She specifically mentioned segregated seating...
Why I Dislike the Term ‘Chosen People’
I cannot begin to tell you how much I dislike the expression "The Chosen People". It is not that I have any problem with...
Was Saul Bellow a Jewish Writer?
In 1970, when I was living in Glasgow, a close friend suggested I read Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet. I went right out and bought...
