November 1, 2011 | 1:00 pm

About

Posted by Shmuel Rosner

Shmuel Rosner is an editor, writer and researcher based in Tel Aviv.

He is Senior Political Editor for the Jewish Journal, and Rosner’s Domain - his daily blog - is hosted on the Jewish Journal’s website.

Rosner writes a weekly column in Hebrew for Israel’s daily Maariv.

He is the non-fiction editor for Israel’s largest Publishing House, Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan-Dvir.

Rosner is also a fellow at The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI).

He is a regular contributor to the International Herald Tribune (New York Times) and has written many columns for the online magazine Slate, and for Commentary magazine.

Rosner’s book Shtetl Bagel Baseball, on the Wonderful Dreadful State of American Jews was published in Israel by Keter (Hebrew, 2011) and became an Israeli bestseller.

In the years 2008-2011 Rosner was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. In the years 2005-2008 he served as Chief US Correspondent for Israeli daily Haaretz. In the years 1996-2005 Rosner was a senior editor at Haaretz, working as head of the news division for five years (2000-‘05) and as head of the features department for four years (‘96-2000).

Previously, Rosner worked in several other Israeli daily and weekly newspapers as a news editor, business editor, features editor and reporter. In 1993 Rosner wrote a column for Haaretz three times a week, covering the implementation of the Oslo accords in Gaza and the West Bank. He also served as a producer and editor at IDF Radio.

In the mid 1990’s, Rosner took a one-year leave from journalism and volunteered to work as an educator in the Jewish community of Kitchener, Canada (1995).

A long-time American history buff, in the last decade Rosner has written numerous pieces about U.S. policy and politics, and traveled across the United States, covering every election since the year 2000. He is a frequent guest on Israeli television and radio stations as an analyst of American policy vis-à-vis Israel and of American policies on the Middle East. Rosner has lectured in many universities and think tanks around the country - among them Yale, Berkley, Boston University, The Hudson Institute, The Washington Institute for Middle East Policy, American University, The Army War College – and also in many Jewish gatherings and communities.

Rosner was raised and educated in Jerusalem, and he now lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, author Orna Landau, and their four children.

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