Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Israeli Settlements and Peace
Good news. Bad news. The US has declared that settlements in the West Bank are not illegal according to international law, despite nearly everyone else claiming...
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...
Remembering Maimonides
It is a well-known saying that, “From Moses to Moses, there was no one as great as Moses.” The second Moses the saying refers to...
Remembering the Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 was the first recognition in 2,000 years that Jews had as much a right to a homeland of their own...
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...
Sukkot Is a Call to Change the World
Every Jewish festival has several different levels of significance. There are always personal, national, agricultural, and universal themes. Rituals, laws, and customs exist to reinforce the...
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....
The Jews of Mashhad
History is going out of fashion. It is declining as a subject taught at universities. It is seen as irrelevant to the great surge of...
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,...
Adam Kirsch, the Hope of Jewish-American Literature
There are few contemporary Jewish writers in the US I am interested in meeting. They invariably use what Jewish religion they have to rebel against...
Religio-Fascism and the Israeli Right-Wing
I have often expressed my frustration with politics -- in particular, Israeli politics. I dislike dogma and extremism on both sides. This week, I am...
Recounting the History of Yemeni Jews on Tisha B’Av
Ever since I first visited a Yemenite community in Israel way back in 1958, I have had a soft spot for Yemeni Jews -- for...
In a Surprise Move, 13 Countries Vote Against Anti-Israel Resolution at the UN
Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’
House to Vote on Resolution Reaffirming Two-State Solution
Pro-Israel Democratic Group Slams Bernie Sanders for Failing to Disassociate Himself From Campaign Surrogate Linda Sarsour After Latest Antisemitic Outburst
Liberals Must Stand Up to College Antisemitism