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Jul 264 min read

Shabbat Pinchas

Numbers 25:10-30 - Zealots by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The story of Pinchas, the grandson of High Priest Aaron is about zealotry, normally a...

Jul 195 min read

Alexander

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) holds a very special place in Jewish historiography and mythology. It is true...

Jul 183 min read

Shabbat Balak

Numbers Chapters 22-24 - Listening to Magicians by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen It seems strange that the whole part of the Torah we read this...

Jul 124 min read

A Murder During the British Mandate

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Alexander Rubowitz, a sixteen-year-old Jerusalemite left his home on May 6, 1947, and never returned. He came from...

Jul 114 min read

Shabbat Chukat

Numbers Chapter 19-22:1 - The Unknowable by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen There are various words for law in the Bible. Torah is a very general...

Jul 55 min read

Eric Hoffer 1902-1983

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Following my piece about Franz Fanon, here is one about another very unusual but influential and almost forgotten...

Jul 44 min read

Shabbat Korach RoshChodesh

Rosh Chodesh Tammuz - Numbers Chapter 16:1-18:31 Miracles by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen One of the amazing features of the Torah over and above...

Jun 284 min read

Shlomo Ben Yosef (1928-1937)

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Once again, we find ourselves torn between negotiation or warfare. Over 80 years ago under the British mandate Jews...

Jun 274 min read

ShabbatShelachLecha

Numbers 13-16 - Mental Fortitude by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The reading this week is mainly concerned with the 12 men sent by Moses to tour...

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