Lecture
Jeremy Rosen
Wednesday 9.09.2026
Jeremy Rosen
The New Year That Isn’t!
Wednesday 9.09.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 9 September at 2:30pm (UK).
Summary
We think of Rosh Hashanah as a sad day and a time of penitence. But it is neither. In this lecture, we look at the different laws and customs that illustrate the variety of experiences around the Jewish New Year.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.