Posts Tagged: Jeremy Rosen
The History of Judaism: An Undivided People
There are several words used in the Bible to describe the Jewish people. At one stage, we were simply tribal. Then we became an "Am,"...
Yom Kippur: An Opportunity to Come Closer to God
People are often surprised when I say there is no actual commandment in the Torah to repent. You might compare it to the afterlife. It...
Rosh Hashanah: Pain or Pleasure?
The Torah tells us very little about Rosh Hashanah, not even its name. The three harvest and pilgrim festivals are named: Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukot....
The Jews of Pinsk
I have just read almost a thousand pages of the two-volume history of The Jews of Pinsk published by Stanford University Press. It is translated from...
Being Sensitive to Religion and Race Should Not Prevent Asking Questions
I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art the other day, standing in front of a painting by an artist I much admire, Giovanni Battista...
No Savior Will Save the Ultra-Orthodox From Subsidy Cuts
On my first visit to Prague some fifteen years ago, I was stunned to see a statue of the great sixteenth century Rabbi Loew, by the...
Jewish Organizations Should Respect Religious Jews
In my youth, everyone had heard of the YMCA, the Young Men's Christian Association. It was founded in 1844 "to put Christian principles into practice...
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10 1973-2005 (REVIEW)
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10 1973-2005, edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz (Yale University Press, 2012). Anyone as devoted...
Rape, the Agunah problem, and Bernard Jackson
The treatment of women around the world today remains a blot on humanity. That an Indian judge can counsel a rape victim to...
KNAIDEL
Last week a young Indian boy living in New York won the National Spelling Bee, the annual spelling championship. The winning spelling was KNAIDEL, that...
Michael Gove and History
It is a popular misconception that there is no precise word in the Bible for "history". But the Bible uses the words "Divrei...
Soccer Hooliganism
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the sad fact that the supporters of London soccer club, Tottenham Hotspur, attract the violent attention...
Passover At Home
What do we mean by a family? There are so many new definitions and variations. Too often people who, for circumstances beyond their ...
Women and Children in War
I have been invited to speak at a forum to be held at the United Nations on the suffering and abuse of women and...
