Yair Rosenberg

Yair Rosenberg is an American journalist and 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.

Yair Rosenberg (2017)

Early life

Rosenberg was born and raised in New York City, the son of two Jewish educators and the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He attended Harvard, where he majored in Jewish studies and history, and served as the films editor of The Harvard Crimson. Rosenberg wrote his senior thesis on Albert Einstein's 20-year friendship with an eclectic Orthodox rabbi, translating the two men's German correspondence and conversations about the Talmud, Zionism, race, and God.

Writing

Rosenberg covered the 2012 and 2016 U.S. elections, as well as the 2014 Israeli elections, and his work on these and other subjects has 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]

As of 2018, he is a senior writer at Tablet magazine, where he covers politics, culture, and religion, tackling 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 anti-Semitism in Europe and in America.[8][9][10] He is also known for his parodies of antisemites on Twitter,[11][12][13] and more serious efforts to combat abuse on online platforms.[14][15][16][17]

A frequent speaker and commentator on these topics, he has addressed audiences in locales as varied as New York, Seattle,[18] Austin's South By Southwest,[19] Jerusalem's Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism,[20] and the Limmud conference[21] in Melbourne, Australia. Rosenberg has been interviewed and cited by The New York Times,[22] Washington Post,[23] Associated Press,[24] CNN,[25] Fast Company,[26] CBC News,[27] and The Rachel Maddow Show,[28] among others.

Rosenberg's writings have received awards from the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies[29] and the Religion Newswriters Association.[30] In 2017, he was named as one of "36 Under 36" by New York's Jewish Week newspaper.[31]

Target of Anti-Semitism

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 anti-Semitic 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.[32] "My parents didn't raise me to be number 2," he later wrote in The New York Times. "Fortunately, there's always 2020."[33]

Since the report's publication, Rosenberg has focused extensively on the issue of online harassment and antisemitism,[34] including through the creation of the "Impostor Buster" Twitter bot that exposed neo-Nazi trolls masquerading as minorities on the platform,[35] which received coverage from The New York Times and other global news outlets.[36][37][38][39] Rosenberg also wrote about his experience and efforts to combat online abuse in the Times.[40]

Music

Rosenberg is a singer and composer of original Jewish music.[41] In March 2020, he released his first two singles, Shalom Aleichem and Lecha Dodi, and announced a forthcoming album.[42] His collaborators include singers Arun Viswanath and Abbaleh Savitt, as well as producer Charles Newman. "Rosenberg is not the only musically inclined member of his family," reported Jewish Insider,[43] "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. In time, Rosenberg’s grandfather ended up in China, eventually making his way to the United States."

References
  1. Rosenberg, Yair (10 January 2013). "Jack Lew: The First Orthodox Jewish Treasury Secretary". Tablet. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  2. Rosenberg, Yair (19 May 2014). "Supreme Court Corrects Kagan Dissent". Tablet. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  3. Rosenberg, Yair (18 September 2013). "Reconciling Modern Biblical Scholarship with Traditional Orthodox Belief". Tablet. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  4. Rosenberg, Yair (29 November 2017). "You Don't Have To Be Muslim To Be Horrified By Trump's Anti-Muslim Bigotry". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  5. Rosenberg, Yair (2 January 2019). "The Complicated History of Thomas Jefferson's Koran". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  6. Rosenberg, Yair (15 November 2016). "I Spent the Shabbat After Trump's Election With Muslim Leaders From Across America". Tablet. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  7. Rosenberg, Yair (15 May 2015). "The Mormons on Mount Scopus". Tablet. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  8. Rosenberg, Yair (14 August 2017). "'Jews Will Not Replace Us': Why White Supremacists Go After Jews". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  9. Rosenberg, Yair (21 March 2018). "Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschilds Are a Symptom. The Problem is Deeper". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  10. Rosenberg, Yair (3 February 2017). "Five Myths About Anti-Semitism". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  11. @yair_rosenberg (14 April 2015). "Twitter makes possible so many amazing things we couldn't do before. Like trolling the Nazis" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. @yair_rosenberg (13 January 2019). "I know they say not to feed the trolls, but it is, on occasion, hilarious" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. Rosenberg, Yair (November 17, 2016). How To Fight Anti-Semitic Trolls and Bigotry Online.
  14. Victor, Daniel (6 June 2016). "To Beat Anti-Semitic Trolls Online, Some Co-Opt Their Weapons and Mock Them". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  15. Hess, Amanda (14 December 2016). "On Twitter, A Battle Among Political Bots". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  16. McCracken, Harry (14 April 2018). ""Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic". Fast Company. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  17. Rosenberg, Yair (27 December 2017). "Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  18. "The 7 Myths About Anti-Semitism - A Talk With Journalist Yair Rosenberg". Jconnect. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  19. Rosenberg, Yair (13 March 2018). Uniting to Fight the -ists, -ites & the -phobes. South By Southwest.
  20. Rosenberg, Yair (19–21 March 2018). Confronting Neo-Nazism and Antisemitism of the Extreme Right. Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism.
  21. "Yair Rosenberg «  Limmud Oz". www.limmudoz.com.au. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  22. Victor, Daniel (6 June 2016). "To Beat Anti-Semitic Trolls Online, Some Co-Opt Their Weapons and Mock Them". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  23. Ferdman, Roberto (1 September 2015). "The Story Behind The Funniest E-Mail Hillary Clinton Has Ever Sent". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  24. Crary, David (30 October 2018). "For Jewish journalists, online harassment goes with the job". Associated Press. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  25. "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, August 22, 2019". CNN Tonight. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  26. McCracken, Harry (14 April 2018). ""Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic". Fast Company. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  27. "'Twitter sided with the Nazis,' says writer after company shuts down his impostor-hunting bot". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  28. The Rachel Maddow Show. September 1, 2015.
  29. "Prizes Awarded for Jewish Studies". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  30. "2015 RNA Contest Winners". Religion Newswriters Association. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  31. Dreyfus, Hannah (25 May 2017). "Yair Rosenberg, 29". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  32. "ADL Task Force Issues Report Detailing Widespread Anti-Semitic Harassment of Journalists on Twitter During 2016 Campaign". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  33. Rosenberg, Yair (27 December 2017). "Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  34. "ADL working with tech firm to curb online hate". jhvonline.com. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  35. Rosenberg, Yair (2 December 2016). "We Built a Bot That Troll's Twitter's Worst Anti-Semitic Trolls". Tablet. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  36. Hess, Amanda (14 December 2016). "On Twitter, A Battle Among Political Bots". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  37. McCracken, Harry (14 April 2018). ""Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic". Fast Company. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  38. "Troll Alert Tool Banned By Twitter". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  39. "'Twitter sided with the Nazis,' says writer after company shuts down his impostor-hunting bot". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  40. Rosenberg, Yair (27 December 2017). "Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  41. "Yair Rosenberg - Music". Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  42. Yair Rosenberg (2020-03-11). "Az Yashir - An Original Jewish Music Album". Indiegogo. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  43. Weiss, Melissa (13 March 2020). "Yair Rosenberg breathes new life into traditional Shabbat songs". Jewish Insider. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
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