Jonathan Rosenblum

Jonathan Rosenblum (also Yonason Rosenblum) is the director, spokesperson, and founder of Jewish Media Resources, an organization which attempts to clarify journalists' understanding of Haredi Jewish society.

Life

Career

Rosenblum himself is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Yale Law School, and Ohr Somayach's main branch in Jerusalem. Although once a self-identified Conservative Jew,Fact|date=January 2008 he is now a "haredi" rabbi and journalist who writes for many publications. These include columns in the modern "haredi" magazine "Mishpacha"; "Litvish" "haredi" weekly "Yated Neeman"; Hasidic "haredi" daily "Hamodia"; the mainstream Israeli weekly "Maariv"; the Jerusalem Post; the "Baltimore Jewish Times"; the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America's journal "Jewish Action"; and the English edition of Agudath Israel of America's journal, the "Jewish Observer". He is a founding writer of the online modern "haredi" journal "Cross-Currents". [cite web |publisher=Cross-Currents.com|title=Cross-Currents|url=http://www.cross-currents.com/] His books include "Reb Yaakov", a biography of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky (Mesorah Publications, 1993), which is based on the research of Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky.

Political stances

* In 1992, Rabbi Rosenblum wrote an extremely lengthy article attacking Rabbi Norman Lamm's book, "Torah Umadda" [ [http://israelvisit.co.il/top/ll8.shtml Let's Learn - Vol. I, No. 8 ] ]
*Rabbi Rosenblum condemned both the gay parade and the haredim who demonstrated violently against it [ [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378413517&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull "Think Again: A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Jonathan Rosenblum] ] .
*On the genocide in Darfur, Rabbi Rosenblum had the following to say::... [a] possible explanation of our inaction is that there are others to carry the ball on Darfur, whereas we are the only ones who will address our special concerns – the future of the Jewish people, the preservation of Torah learning, the hardships faced by so many families within the Torah community...Yet even those of us who devote ourselves exclusively to the study and teaching of Torah must not lose sight of the fact that we do so because our unique role is to bring human history to its ultimate goal, when all mankind will be filled with knowledge of Hashem – lesaken olam b’Malchus Shakai. In order to be Hashem’s instruments for tikkun olam [world repair] , we must remain constantly aware of our responsibility for every aspect of Hashem’s world and of how far the world is from its ultimate perfection. In that context, knowing and caring about what is going on in Darfur can inspire us to greater devotion to our unique task as His Chosen People. [ [http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/06/14/thinking-about-darfur "Thinking About Darfur" by Jonathan Rosenblum] ]
*Rabbi Rosenblum felt that Moshe Katsav was correct in not referring to the president of the Union for Reform Judaism as "Rav" [ [http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/article/976 "Thanks, Mr. President" by Jonathan Rosenblum] ]

References

See also

* Avi Shafran

* Jewish Media Resources

External links

* [http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/ Jewish Media Resources]

* [http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/author/jonathan-rosenblum/ Cross-Currents articles-- Jonathan Rosenblum]