Posts Tagged: Rabbi Jeremy Rosen
Wellesley Tudor Pole and Living Our Best Lives
Plagues often bring out soothsayers and those who predict the end of days. Why else is Nostradamus still popular? Every culture has its unusual characters...
World War II and the Post-COVID World
May 8th is the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945. It marks the final defeat of the Nazis,...
The Need for Jewish Proofreaders
I read The Economist religiously every week. Its coverage of world affairs in a concise and readable form, combined with its cultural, scientific, and review articles,...
A Response to COVID-19
Friends, we are living under conditions that we have never experienced before. It is not a Holocaust of course. But it is akin to the...
Eating the Golden Calf
Eating plays a very important part in Jewish rituals. Once upon a time, eating sacrifices in the Temple was the centerpiece of Jewish communal life....
Purim in 2020
Purim. Poor Him. But “poor” who? Ahasuerus the drunken incompetent sop of a passive king? Vashti the deposed queen? Esther, the #MeToo nice Jewish girl?...
How Jewish Genius and Anxiety Changed the World
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht, is the best popular Jewish interest book in years. It is an amazing...
Angels Exist — But Not in the Way You Think
Abraham Lincoln once said, “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our...
Is the Torah ‘True’?
“What is truth?” is the question that Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea, asked 2,000 years ago. It's possibly the most famous question of all...
Why Do People Sin?
Next week, we will restart the annual Torah reading cycle, which always reminds me of sin -- Adam and Eve and all that. What an...
Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen? There Is No Answer.
For thousands of years, we have been asking why God lets bad things happen to good people and good things happen to very bad ones....
Rosh Hashanah: A Call to Remember
The occasion that we now call Rosh Hashanah is referred to in the Bible only as Zihron Teruah -- the Day of Remembering with Sound....
Judaism and Evolution
In a recent article, a Yale University computer science professor, David Gelernter, said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has too many holes and is...
President Truman, George Marshall, and Israel
Some in American Jewry are split over whether Donald Trump is the most pro-Israel or pro-Jewish president in the history of the US. Before Trump,...
