Jeremy Rosen
ARTICLES BY: Jeremy Rosen
The Crusades Are Back — and Targeting Jews
Once upon a time, Britain stood for cultured, civilized humanity, and with the US, eliminated the threat of fascist Hitler and stood firm against the...
The Spanish and Portuguese Sukkah
I live on the 30th floor with no balcony or courtyard below. The possibility of building a Sukkah of my own is zero. For the...
Sukkot 2025: Life Is Temporary, So We Must Find the Joy and Appreciate the Moment
The Talmud gives three explanations for why we construct and live in the Sukkah on this festival of Sukkot. The most important element is the...
Reflections on Yom Kippur 2025
Every year on Yom Kippur, we list our mistakes and deficiencies and determine to be better. But we know that however hard we pray, and...
Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish Pioneers of Democracy
Rosh Hashanah symbolizes the evolution of the Jewish people and Israel, unlike any other holy days. The harvest festivals were all celebrated years before the...
Religious Vs. Secular — What Is the Right Way to Educate Jewish Children?
I have just returned from a very moving and memorable reunion of pupils of the Jewish Boarding school Carmel College, which my father founded in...
What Is Happening in the West?
In 1968, Enoch Powell -- a British politician and writer -- was attacked when he criticized immigration to Britain by large numbers of former members...
Why Are There No Jewish Prophets Today?
The concept of a prophet is central to the Torah reading this week. But what exactly is a prophet? And what is a prophet's role?...
Remembering Jewish Trailblazer Tom Lehrer
I grew up in an English cultural environment where the stiff and uptight British society was being challenged by irreverence. I can think of a...
What Sir Thomas More Teaches Us About the World and Judaism Today
I was always interested in history -- and being from England, especially English history. One of the most significant eras there was the 16th century....
Fasts Can Be Good for You; Were the Jewish People Ahead of Their Time?
In The Economist on June 20, there was an interesting article under the heading “Do longevity drugs work.” The subtitle was that animal studies suggest that...
What Moses and the Torah Can Teach Us About Leadership Today
Over and above the spiritual and ritual laws of the Torah, there are themes of leadership that run through all five books, sometimes overtly and...
Shabbat Balak: What the Torah Teaches Us About Waging a Moral War
In our current section of the Torah, as the tribe of Israel makes its way towards the Promised Land, they encounter three very different situations...
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...
