Posts Tagged: Jeremy Rosen
Genesis and the Marshmallow Experiment
I was reminded of the famous Marshmallow Experiment last week, when I read that Dr. Walter Mischel had died on September 12 at the age...
For All Our Sins
The Torah introduces us to the idea that we confess our sins to God (Leviticus 5:5 and 16:21) -- not to humans, priests or otherwise. According to our...
Liberal Jews Can Be Committed to Nationalism and Judaism
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote that the choice between Jewish nationalism and Jewish liberalism is the crucial issue facing American Jewry today. He...
The Meaning of Words
Languages are amazingly varied and flexible despite all academic attempts to reduce them to simple formulas. We have always struggled to explain why almost every...
Wine and Racism
Last month, there was a huge fuss in Israel over wine. It was known as the Barkan Affair. Barkan Wines, one of many relatively recent...
How We Treat Non-Jews
Here is a thought for the 9th of Av and, more importantly, for life afterwards as many of us venture forth into a different world. The...
Why I Fast in the Season of Fasts
We are now in the season of fasts. What actually happened on the fasts of the 17th day of Tammuz and the 9th of Av? Well,...
Remembering Carmel College
I have a childhood memory of a meeting in our London home at this time of the year, 70 years ago. My father, Kopul Rosen,...
Change the Omer?
Pesach is over and normal services have resumed. But what is “normal”? We are now in a period called “the Omer.” It is a time of...
Is the Bible Fact?
Well before Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologicus Politicus (1670), Christian thinkers and rational philosophers like Hobbes began to challenge the authorship and validity of the Bible. Questions arose...
Orthodox Jews Must Allow and Support Secular Education
One of the biggest challenges that Judaism faces is the Haredi schism. On the one hand, the sect is the most dynamic, fastest growing, most passionately...
Mahmoud Abbas and the False Palestinian Link to the Jebusites
Abu Mazen is at it again, claiming that Palestinians are descended from the Canaanite tribe of the Jebusites. These claims echo those made by Yasser...
Kosher Wine – and Following Tradition for Tradition’s Sake
Last year, there was not a single fatality on commercial airlines -- and there hasn’t been a fatality on a US commercial flight since 2009. But in 2016, road...
Orthodox Jews and Art
Aesthetics plays an important part in the theological and philosophical tradition that started in Greece, and flowed right through the Christian intellectual world to the...
