Jeremy Rosen's Blog

Once we used to celebrate Shavuot as the harvest festival that linked the first barley crop, which was dedicated on Pesach, with the wheat h...

It comes as no surprise to me that more European countries are trying to make life difficult for Jews in various ways. But how should we rea...

When I was a kid, I used to wonder why it was that some children in my circles seemed naturally better and sweeter than others, who seemed n...

Israel’s Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut, brings out the best and the worst in us. We cannot agree on what it means, and we cannot agree on...

Where did the Hebrew language come from? When did it begin? What language does God speak? And for that matter what language did the snake us...

This is a sad story. For obvious reasons, I am changing names and certain details to protect the memory of a brilliant, flawed person. Eli...

Is the fuss over “fake news” in itself a fake issue? Who really believed in the objectivity of journalists? As students we used to debate ...