Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 - Adding or Subtracting by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen There is a well-known phrase in this week's reading from the...

7:12-11:28 - Chosen People by Rabbi Jeremy Rabbi It still amazes me how often I hear non-Jews claim that we Jews are so arrogant and...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of Av, reminds us of the greatest catastrophes in our history. Yet five days after the...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Regardless of how well or poorly Jews have integrated into their host societies, in each generation, they have...

Deuteronomy 3:23-6:11 - Law or Lore by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The reading from the Torah this week is remarkable in that it combines the two...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen In 1551 the English diplomat and scholar Sir Thomas More, living in the reign of King Henry 8th wrote a book called...

The Books of the Bible by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Why do we call the fifth book of the Torah that we start this week Devarim but non-Jews (and...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Of all the Roman emperors, I would say that Constantine more than any other, was responsible indirectly for the two...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen We have just had the Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz. It commemorates the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the moment...