Yair Rosenberg | |
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| Born | New York City, New York, U.S |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Yair Rosenberg is an American journalist and a staff writer at The Atlantic , where he covers politics, culture, and religion, and writes the Deep Shtetl newsletter. Formerly a senior writer at Tablet magazine, he is a regular speaker and commentator on antisemitism in the modern era and on strategies to combat abuse on online platforms.
Beginning in 2012, Rosenberg covered national elections in the U.S. and Israel, and his work on these and other subjects appeared in The New York Times , Washington Post , The Atlantic , The Guardian , and the Wall Street Journal , among other outlets. He has interviewed and profiled multiple White House chiefs of staff and cabinet members. [1] He also elicited a correction from the US Supreme Court on a point of Jewish history. [2]
Until 2021, he was a senior writer at Tablet magazine, where he tackled topics ranging from American Jewish responses to modern critical scholarship of the Bible, [3] to contemporary Islamophobia, [4] [5] [6] to the forgotten history of Mormon-Jewish relations. [7] In particular, he has chronicled the resurgence of antisemitism in Europe and in America. [8] [9] [10] [11] He is also known for his parodies of antisemites on Twitter, [12] [13] [14] and more serious efforts to combat abuse on online platforms, [15] [16] [17] [18] including a video series [19] aimed at educating the uninitiated about the history, nuances, and dangers of modern-day antisemitism. Rosenberg is credited with coining the sarcastic Internet adage Goebbels Gap, which he defined as the amount of time between a negative event transpiring in the world and someone finding a way to blame it on the Jews.
In November 2021, he moved to The Atlantic , and launched a newsletter called Deep Shtetl, [20] where he continued his coverage of politics, culture, antisemitism, and social media dynamics, including an exploration of how a Jewish character came to be on the cult classic sci-fi show Firefly, [21] the story behind the Hanukkah menorah used by Vice President Kamala Harris, [22] interviews with celebrated Jewish authors and artists like Dara Horn [23] and Ben Platt, [24] a profile of Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid, [25] and a deep dive into Albert Einstein's little-known 20-year friendship with Orthodox rabbi Chaim Tchernowitz. [26]
A frequent speaker and commentator on these topics, Rosenberg has addressed audiences around the world, [27] including South By Southwest, [28] the Jerusalem Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, [29] the Limmud conference [30] in Melbourne, Australia, and the Boca Raton Synagogue in Florida, where he debated conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. [31] Rosenberg has written for and been interviewed by The New York Times , [32] Washington Post , [33] Associated Press, [34] CNN, [35] [36] MSNBC, [37] Pod Save the World, [38] Fast Company, [39] and CBC News, [40] [41] among others.
Rosenberg's writings have received awards from the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies [42] and the Religion Newswriters Association. [43] In 2017, he was named as one of "36 Under 36" by New York's Jewish Week newspaper. [44]
In 2016, a report by the Anti-Defamation League's Task Force on Journalism and Harassment identified Rosenberg as the second-most targeted Jewish journalist receiving online antisemitic abuse due to his critical reporting on Donald Trump's candidacy, following conservative writer Ben Shapiro, and ahead of journalists Jeffrey Goldberg, Sally Kohn and Jake Tapper. [45] "My parents didn't raise me to be number 2," he later wrote in The New York Times. "Fortunately, there's always 2020." [46]
Since the report's publication, Rosenberg has focused extensively on the issue of online harassment and antisemitism, [47] including through the creation of the "Impostor Buster" Twitter bot that exposed neo-Nazi trolls masquerading as minorities on the platform, [48] which received coverage from The New York Times and other global news outlets. [49] [50] [51] [52] Rosenberg also wrote about his experience and efforts to combat online abuse in the Times. [53]
Rosenberg is a singer and composer of original Jewish music. [54] His collaborators include singers Arun Viswanath and Abbaleh Savitt, as well as producer Charles Newman. In August 2022, Rosenberg released his first album, Az Yashir, [55] a compilation of original melodies for traditional Sabbath songs. [56] [57] [58]
"Rosenberg is not the only musically inclined member of his family," reported Jewish Insider, [59] "his grandfather was a Hasidic composer who, as a young man, escaped Nazi Europe with the assistance of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who issued him a visa."
Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. This sentiment is a form of racism, and a person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Though antisemitism is overwhelmingly perpetrated by non-Jews, it may occasionally be perpetrated by Jews in a phenomenon known as auto-antisemitism. Primarily, antisemitic tendencies may be motivated by negative sentiment towards Jews as a people or by negative sentiment towards Jews with regard to Judaism. In the former case, usually presented as racial antisemitism, a person's hostility is driven by the belief that Jews constitute a distinct race with inherent traits or characteristics that are repulsive or inferior to the preferred traits or characteristics within that person's society. In the latter case, known as religious antisemitism, a person's hostility is driven by their religion's perception of Jews and Judaism, typically encompassing doctrines of supersession that expect or demand Jews to turn away from Judaism and submit to the religion presenting itself as Judaism's successor faith—this is a common theme within the other Abrahamic religions. The development of racial and religious antisemitism has historically been encouraged by anti-Judaism, though the concept itself is distinct from antisemitism.
Racial antisemitism is prejudice against Jews based on a belief or assertion that Jews constitute a distinct race that has inherent traits or characteristics that appear in some way abhorrent or inherently inferior or otherwise different from the traits or characteristics of the rest of a society. The abhorrence may find expression in the form of discrimination, stereotypes or caricatures. Racial antisemitism may present Jews, as a group, as a threat in some way to the values or safety of a society. Racial antisemitism can seem deeper-rooted than religious antisemitism, because for religious antisemites conversion of Jews remains an option and once converted the "Jew" is gone. In the context of racial antisemitism Jews cannot get rid of their Jewishness.
Antisemitic tropes or antisemitic canards are "sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications" that are defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group. Since the Middle Ages, such reports have been a recurring motif of broader antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Different opinions exist among historians regarding the extent of antisemitism in American history and how American antisemitism contrasted with its European counterpart. Earlier students of American Jewish life minimized the presence of antisemitism in the United States, which they considered a late and alien phenomenon that arose on the American scene in the late 19th century. More recently however, scholars have asserted that no period in American Jewish history was free from antisemitism. The debate about the significance of antisemitism during different periods of American history has continued to the present day.
Antisemitism has existed for centuries in the United States. Most Jewish community relations agencies in the United States draw distinctions between antisemitism, which is measured in terms of attitudes and behaviors, and the security and status of American Jews, which are both measured by the occurrence of specific incidents. FBI data shows that in every year since 1991, Jews were the most frequent victims of religiously motivated hate crimes, according to a report which was published by the Anti-Defamation League in 2019. Evidence suggests that the true number of hate crimes against Jews is underreported, as is the case for many other targeted groups. In an attempt to combat anti-Semitism, the Biden administration launched the United States’ first-ever comprehensive U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism on May 25, 2023.
Antisemitism in Canada is the manifestation of hostility, prejudice or discrimination against the Canadian Jewish people or Judaism as a religious, ethnic or racial group. This form of racism has affected Jews since Canada's Jewish community was established in the 18th century.
Tablet is a conservative online magazine focused on Jewish news and culture. The magazine was founded in 2009 and is supported by the Nextbook foundation. Its editor-in-chief is Alana Newhouse.
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Antisemitism is a growing problem in 21st-century Germany.
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