Rabbi Brant Rosen
LATEST ARTICLES BY Rabbi Brant Rosen
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Opinion
We Charge Genocide: For Rosh Hashanah, we must confront Zionism’s carnage
October 4, 2024More and more Israelis are now threatening a “second Nakba” when until recently Israelis denied that the Nakba ever happened.
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Opinion
Violence in the Mideast will not end without justice
October 11, 2023A letter from Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago, reprinted here, says it is crucial to understand the underlying context of events in the Middle East if there is to be any hope of going beyond...
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World
Amnesty International’s Apartheid Report: Parsing the Jewish communal outrage
February 8, 2022When Amnesty International announced the release of a 278 page report entitled “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians,” you could already sense the storm clouds gathering.
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Culture
Hanukkah is about resistance. Let’s resist this COVID spike through mutual aid
December 10, 2020At its core, the Hanukkah story commemorates the victorious resistance of the people over the power and might of empire.
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Opinion
Christian Zionists leaving their legacy on the way out
November 30, 2020Even if they are no longer in the administration, the threat of this Christian extremist movement will remain very real.
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Opinion
About that sticky question of “dual loyalties”
March 11, 2020It was recently reported that two players from Brooklyn College received harsh criticism for kneeling during the playing of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah."
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Opinion
White supremacy is coming for us all
August 5, 2019During this horrible, clarifying moment, I take heart in the sacred power of solidarity.
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Opinion
Playing politics with human rights: The recent anti-BDS House bill
July 29, 2019No amount of explaining can wash away the fact this resolution is a cynical political move that unfairly attacks a genuine nonviolent movement for human rights.
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