Posts Tagged: Jeremy Rosen
Can We Use ‘Fake News’ to Advance a Cause?
I like the Hebrew term for the Christian festival coming up this week: Hag Hamolad, Festival of the Birth. A virgin birth, quite unbelievable. It is an...
Thanksgiving and Preserving the Past
Thanksgiving is a festival that records a group of settlers in America surviving a very brutal winter. Some argue that these settlers brought tremendous suffering...
Remembering My Brother, Mickey
This week is the secular date of my younger brother’s death. Sibling rivalry goes all the way back to Cain and Abel. As a two-year-old, I...
The Similar Stories of Eve and Cain
We have started the annual cycle of reading the Torah. Every year, I come to a familiar, beloved text, and invariably see something new. The Bible...
Hannah Arendt Was Wrong — but Also Right
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), the German-born American political theorist, was a regarded as a major influential thinker. In her day, she was the symbol of liberal intellectuality, and lionized...
Intersectionality: The New False God
When young people arrive at college today, they are likely to be confronted by a new, dogmatic orthodoxy. It has nothing to do with religion, but...
Art and Political Discourse
I am a member of the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and I have always believed that public art galleries and museums should be neutral...
Judaism and the Solar Eclipse
There will be a solar eclipse on August 21, which will be visible across parts of the United States for the first time since 1918. Solar...
Embarrassed to Be Israeli or Jewish?
This week, I met someone who had just returned from a trip to the Greek islands. He told me that he kept meeting Israelis who confided that...
Fasting on the Ninth of Av
The fast of the Ninth of Av falls this coming Monday and Tuesday. All other so-called “minor fasts” in Judaism run from dawn to dusk -- like Ramadan, which...
Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber and Jewish Assimilation
I went to a very good Jewish school in England -- Carmel College -- which was known for its study of the sciences. In those days, they were...
Pesach: Just Do It
"Just do it” is, of course, the Nike's slogan, but I think we Jews should adopt it. Let me explain. Why is Pesach, or Passover, so...
The Mortara Affair and Christian-Jewish Relations
The story of Edgardo Mortara is a scandalous example of Christian theological cruelty and arrogance towards Jews. In the 19th century, six-year-old Edgardo Mortara was seized by...
Remembering My Friend, Jack Lunzer
Jack Lunzer, who died this past December, was famous for his collection of Jewish books, texts and incunabula. It was the largest collection of Judaica...
