Jonathan Rosenblum

Rosenblum is a graduate of the University of Chicago (AB 1973), Yale Law School, and Ohr Somayach's main branch in Jerusalem.

Although once a self-identified Conservative Jew,[1] he is now a Haredi ("ultra-Orthodox") journalist who writes for many publications.

He is one of the initiators of Klal Perspectives,[3] an electronic journal dedicated to addressing the unique challenges facing today's Orthodox communities.

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 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.