WireNewsAug 294 min readShabbat Re'ehDeuteronomy Chapters 12;26-15;23 - Servitude & Dependency by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen This week, we read “If a fellow Hebrew male or female is...
WireNewsAug 235 min readRobert Wistrich and Jew Hatredby Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Many, many books have been written about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Amongst my favorites is Anthony Julius’s...
WireNewsAug 234 min readShabbat EykevDeuteronomy Chapter 7;12-11;25 - Do as you would be done by by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The weekly reading of Eykev follows the pattern of...
WireNewsAug 164 min readComfort Ye! Comfort Ye!by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Shabbat after the fast of the Ninth of Av, is called Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. Its name...
WireNewsAug 154 min readThe ShemaShabbat Vaetchanan - Deuteronomy 3:23-6:11 Apart from the opening statements of the so-called Ten Commandments , there is very little...
WireNewsAug 95 min readThe Ninth of Av: Fasting and Self-Flagellationby Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Both Christianity and Islam have long and controversial traditions of penance that involve flogging oneself with...
WireNewsAug 83 min readShabbat DevarimDeuteronomy 1-3:23 - What’s in a Name? by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Why do we call this, the fifth book of the Torah, that we start this...
WireNewsAug 24 min readWho Was Peter Bergsonby Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The anniversary of Hillel Kook’s death was this week. A Jewish Walter Mitty and a colorful, complex, dual...
WireNewsAug 14 min readShabbat MattotMasseiRosh Chodesh Av Tuesday - Numbers Chapters 30-36 Conquering the Land by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen This week two sections of the Torah are read...