by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Friends, we are living under conditions that we have never experienced before. It is not a Holocaust of course. But...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Eating, plays a very important part in Jewish rituals, every day of the year. Once upon a time, eating sacrifices...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Purim. Poor Him. But “poor” who? Ahasuerus the drunken incompetent sop of a passive king? Vashti the deposed queen?...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I met the Jewish Czech philosopher, Vilem Flusser, at a conference on Contemporary Judaism and Zionism convened by...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen We Jews are hyper-sensitive. Recently, several people have told me how embarrassed they are that Jewish names are...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I have always been fascinated by the Biblical Deborah. Not the one in Genesis, but the most impressive one in the...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Marx was right. Religion is the opiate of the masses. And Freud was right, too, that religion is wish-fulfillment...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Erich Fromm, was one of the most influential psychiatrists of the last century. He was educated in Germany. When...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Genius and Anxiety: How Jews changed the World 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht, is the best, popular Jewish interest...