About Michael Rosen
When a Jewish Author Reaches Out to the Christians
When I was finishing my book What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse and beginning to consider market segments that would be interested in the story I’ve told of race, class … Read More
Why Are You And I Afraid Of My Sons?
I was once an anthropologist. Or trained that way. Since, I’ve raised a family first through adoption and then fostering (for lack of a simpler term), spending the time to care and being cared about in return. An article in … Read More
Are You Willing to Send Your Children to Die?
Two of my sons ran off and joined the Navy.  They exhibited this acute rationality near the end of one of their college semesters a couple years ago.  They had survived past midterms, each done sufficiently well and were a … Read More
Love Is Free: Thoughts on Raising Seven Adopted Sons
I’m an accountant’s son. For supper on Wednesday nights, in Gloversville, New York (I say I was born in Vermont, where we moved when I was seven, the year Kennedy was assassinated) my parents fed us instant rice stirred with … Read More
My Day as a White Guy in Prison
Michael Rosen is the author of What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse. He is guest-blogging this week on Jewcy, and this is his first post. I was in prison. … Read More