Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
Why Pig Is Not Kosher and the Hidden Face of Antisemitism
The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737 to 1794), wrote six volumes of The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. His conclusions...
Examining Three Remarkable Women From Jewish History in These Turbulent Times
Anyone interested in history will know that the Yalta Conference was a meeting between the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union...
God’s ‘Rebuke’ in This Week’s Torah Portion
A major part of the double Torah portion we read this week (which ends the Book of Vayikra) is what is called the Tochecha, which...
How Does ‘An Eye for an Eye’ Hold Up Today?
“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” is one of the best-known rules not only in the Torah, but universally. It...
How the Torah Teaches Us to Deal With — and Overcome — Physical Illness
The human body is an amazing organism. And a vehicle for spirituality. But we do tend to take it for granted until something bad happens,...
What the Torah Teaches Us About Contributing to Our Communities
We come this week to the end of the second book of the Torah, Exodus or Shemot (as we call it). For the past weeks, we have been focused...
Shabbat Teaches the Jewish People to Be Different — and We Should Embrace That
"Moshe then gathered the whole Israelite community and said to them: These are the things that God has commanded you to do. On six days...
Here’s What Really Happened with the British and Mandatory Palestine
The ignorant (or brainwashed) useful idiots who call for the destruction of Israel, claim that the British Mandate that granted Jews a homeland was not...
Why We Need Yeshivas — and Why They Must Compromise
What is a yeshivah? It's a place where you sit, literally. Of course, you can do many things when you sit -- from meditation to wasting...
Why Have Jews Migrated and Assimilated?
There are very different reasons why Jews have always migrated, and many have assimilated. When we feel insecure, some of us just sit the crisis...
Why Joseph in Egypt Was a Great Politician
In the Torah, Joseph (Yosef) comes across as a consummate politician. It starts off with the way he deals with his brothers, who have come...
Shabbat Mikeytz: The Power of Dreams
Dreams play a very important part in the Biblical narrative. We have read in recent weeks about Yaakov’s dream of angels going up and down...
A History of Hanukkah and Jewish Survival
We like to think that Hanukkah was the great victory of Judah, the son of Mattiyahu the Priest (who initiated the resistance) against the mighty...
In Life, Do We Really Reap What We Sow?
There is a tradition amongst some Talmudic commentators to try to discount any narrative in the Torah that seems to reflect negatively on our founding...
