by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Torah talks a lot about love, love of God, love our neighbors, and love the stranger. But what does love,...

Gen 25.19-29.10 A perfect marriage? by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The marriage of Isaac and Rebecca appears on the surface to have been a perfect...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Irving Howe, in 1976, wrote the “World of Our Fathers”. It pays tribute to the American Jewish world of the...

Genesis Chapter 23-25:18 Say what you mean by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen This week’s Torah reading has a subtle undercurrent of a theme. Never...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen For several years now Zebulon Simantov, “The last Jew in Afghanistan,” has garnered sympathetic press attention....

Genesis 18-22:24 Not Lot by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Lot does not seem to be a very nice person. His uncle (and brother-in-law) Abraham takes...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen It is very rare that I post someone else’s writing. But here is a vital exception. For those who do not already...

Genesis 12-17 - No one is Perfect by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Abraham is the first, full character study in the Torah. The “ten generations”...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The debacle in Afghanistan has proved how difficult it is to change another country’s culture. The USA tried it in...