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Jeremy Rosen is an Orthodox rabbi, author, and lecturer, and the congregational rabbi of the Persian Jewish Center of New York. He is best known for advocating an approach to Jewish life that is open to the benefits of modernity and tolerant of individual variations while remaining committed to halacha (Jewish law). His articles and weekly column appear in publications in several countries, including the Jewish Telegraph and the London Jewish News, and he often comments on religious issues on the BBC.
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By Jeremy Rosen
Obama’s incompetence, the way his naive worldview and credulity have made a fool of him, are equally frightening
By Jeremy Rosen
The Ramaz School was wrong to refuse to allow Rashid Khalidi, the Palestinian apologist, to speak to its senior students.
By Jeremy Rosen
Imagine you take your family somewhere where there is no such thing as a day off.
By Jeremy Rosen
The Talmud (Eiruvin 96a) mentions that Michal, the daughter of King Saul, wore Tefilin and no one objected.
By Jeremy Rosen
We've known that you can define neither Jews nor Judaism in a way that will satisfy all its various elements.
By Jeremy Rosen
The religious world needs to fight back constructively.
By Jeremy Rosen
There is a dichotomy between personal, private prayer and public communal prayer.
By Jeremy Rosen
We must call a halt to throwing so much money away on pure self-indulgence.
By Jeremy Rosen
The CIA intervened to get rid of Iran's unpredictable prime minister Mossadegh, in 1953.
By Jeremy Rosen
Meditation is all the rage in cyberspace it seems and what’s more “it is keeping capitalism alive.”
By Jeremy Rosen
In Britain it is very rare for Orthodox and non-Orthodox rabbis to come together or to appear on a common platform.
By Jeremy Rosen
I know I am exceedingly privileged and fortunate to be able to live the life I live.
By Jeremy Rosen
if you call it “kabbalah” you are guaranteed a whole legion more of suckers.
By Jeremy Rosen
I strongly believe in legalizing drugs, soft and hard, but I am wary of drugs of any kind.
By Jeremy Rosen
A thousand years ago Rabbeynu Tam, the greatest rabbi of his day, forbade beating men up as a way of compelling a recalcitrant husbands to grant a Get.
By Jeremy Rosen
The Sephardi world had no Reform movement. In Ashkenaz the rabbis were constantly fighting an internal schism.
By Jeremy Rosen
In the West, most Jews that non-Jews encounter are not particularly committed to being Jewish.
By Jeremy Rosen
The idea that all of the Torah was given to Moses on Sinai is complex, rife with textual, historical, and philosophical problems.
By Jeremy Rosen
Muslims of the Far East see the Arab jihadis of the Middle East in much the same way that non-Orthodox Jews view Charedim.
By Jeremy Rosen
Zechariah was ready to scrap all the sad fast days and turn them into joyful celebrations.
By Jeremy Rosen
In Judaism sex is regarded as something wonderful, positive, and a gift of God.
By Jeremy Rosen
My father was always known as Rosen, but his elder brother Hashy became Shaw.
By Jeremy Rosen
I suspect the survival of torture for so long owes as much to the Church as to human nature.
By Jeremy Rosen
But surely, you will say, Judaism requires one to respect one’s religious leaders. In theory this is so.
By Jeremy Rosen
The myth about the idyllic Jewish life if the ghettos of the East is dishonest, manipulative, and a betrayal of the memory of those who lived through it.
By Jeremy Rosen
I don’t expect thinking Muslims to object to a reasoned critique of Islam.
By Jeremy Rosen
The super hero myth is dangerous because it is an excuse for inaction and fantasy.
By Jeremy Rosen
I find it very sad that an organization founded to help Jews retain their identity, should be so insensitive, so unaware Jewishly.
By Jeremy Rosen
Many Israeli intellectuals seem still caught up in an outdated debate about their identity caused both by their secularism and their left-wing ideology.
By Jeremy Rosen
Modern Orthodoxy has tried valiantly to deal with the issue through prenuptial, but the Haredi world has refused to make any concessions.
By Jeremy Rosen
Every American child seems to be on Ritalin and Israelis are imitating them.
By Jeremy Rosen
Yiddish is a strange language that was and is pronounced differently across the geographical and sectarian divide.
By Jeremy Rosen
“Do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.“ It is a puzzling statement, repeated three times in the Torah. Twice in connection with Shavuot, the summer's first fruits and harvest festival. The third time is in the context of forbidden foods. Traditionally, these texts have been taken to ban cooking, eating, and gaining benefit […]
By Jeremy Rosen
Real progress is being made to generate lab grown meat that tastes as good as the real thing without the fuss -- isn’t this something we Orthodox Jews should welcome?
June 21, 2026 
