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Rabbi Jeremy Rosen has worked in the rabbinate, Jewish education, and academia for more than forty years, in Europe and the US. He currently lives in America, where he writes, teaches, lectures, and serves as rabbi of a small community in New York.

ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen


July 4, 2025 10:47 am
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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...

June 27, 2025 11:06 am
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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...

May 22, 2025 10:50 am
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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...

May 16, 2025 9:40 am
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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...

May 1, 2025 10:27 am
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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,...

March 27, 2025 10:30 am
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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...

March 21, 2025 10:45 am
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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...

February 27, 2025 11:22 am
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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...

January 16, 2025 11:30 am
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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...

January 6, 2025 11:26 am
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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...

January 2, 2025 12:02 pm
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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...

December 27, 2024 11:12 am
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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...

December 25, 2024 11:24 am
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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...

December 5, 2024 10:18 am
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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...

Israel

Three Charged in Pro-Palestinian Rampage at Israeli-Owned Restaurant in Mel...

Three people have been charged with assault and other offenses after pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized an Israeli-owned restaurant in Melbourne over...

Middle East

Gaza Ceasefire Within Reach But May Take More Time, Israeli Officials Say

Gaps between Israel and Hamas in Gaza ceasefire talks underway in Qatar can be bridged, but it may take more than a few days to reach a deal, Israeli officials...

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