Rabbi Brant Rosen
LATEST ARTICLES BY Rabbi Brant Rosen
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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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Opinion
When secular Israelis claim ‘God gave this land to us’
May 29, 2019Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, created something of viral sensation last week when he dramatically brandished a Bible and declared “This is the deed to our land.”
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World
Bearing witness to root causes of Honduras migration at Radio Progreso
April 4, 2019The invitation for our Root Causes Pilgrimage to Honduras came from Radio Progreso, a Jesuit-owned radio station based in the city of El Progreso.
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