Shmuel Rosner (שמואל רוזנר) is an Israeli journalist and editor. He writes for the Jerusalem Post, Maariv and Slate magazine. In 2005-2008, he was chief United States correspondent for the daily newspaper Haaretz.[1]
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Shmuel Rosner began his career in 1987 as a producer and editor with Israeli Army Radio.[1] In 1991, he joined the Israeli daily Hadashot as a features and news editor.[1] In 1994, he became editor of a local Israeli weekly, Tzomet Hasharon.[1] He joined Haaretz in 1996.[1] In 1995-1999, he was head of the features department, and in 1999-2005, he was the head of the News Division. In 2006, he began writing articles for Slate magazine's "Foreigners" feature.[2] Starting in 2008, Rosner also moderated dialogues for the online publication Jewcy. He blogged for Commentary's main blog, "Contentions," and wrote for The New Republic, The Jewish Review of Books, The Jewish Chronicle and other publications.
In 2009, Rosner was appointed Non-fiction Editor for Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, a leading Israeli publishing house. He also joined the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) as a fellow, and started writing a weekend column on diplomatic and American affairs for Maariv.
In 2011, Rosner's book, "Shtetls, Bagels, and Baseball: On the Dreadful, Wonderful State of America's Jews" was published by Keter Publishing House, one of the largest publishers in Israel.[3]
Rosner lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Israeli novelist Orna Landau. The couple has 4 children, Shaul, Yochai, Ariel, and Yael.
Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic called Rosner "The leading Israeli blogger and all-around A1 Jew". MJ Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis at the Israel Policy Forum, and former AIPAC staffer and editor of AIPAC's Near East Report, describes Rosner as a "popular and provocative conservative".[4] The Nation, in a profile of Haaretz, which employed Rosner, described him as "the paper's right-of-center chief US correspondent."[5] Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Jewish Reform movement wrote that "Rosner is one of the more interesting commentators on this well-worn subject (Israel-Diaspora relations). While he trends conservative, he has an original, quirky, iconoclastic approach, and one never knows where he will end up".[6]