Yair Rosenberg
Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and his work has received recognition from the Religion News Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.
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Bill Kostroun / AP How Baseball Explains the Limits of AI
The iconic Yankees broadcaster John Sterling reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: TikTok; Jason Davis … The Jews Aren’t Taking Away TikTok
But conspiracy theories that say otherwise are coming for democracy itself.
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Ilia Yefimovich / picture alliance / Getty The Earthquake That Could Shatter Netanyahu’s Coalition
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify.
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Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Biden’s New Doomsday Option Against Israeli Settlers
How an executive order takes aim at Netanyahu’s coalition
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty What Biden’s Critics Get Wrong About His Gaffes
The president’s Mexico mistake is a warning sign, but not the one his critics think.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Bloomberg; Picture Alliance … How to Win an Argument but Lose the Plot
Harvard’s Claudine Gay was right that context matters for campus anti-Semitism. It does at the International Court of Justice too.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Alexi J. Rosenfeld … What Did Top Israeli War Officials Really Say About Gaza?
Journalists and jurists point to damning quotes from Israel’s war cabinet as evidence of genocidal intent. But the citations are not what they seem.
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Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty The Anticlimactic End of Israel’s Democracy Crisis
The Netanyahu government’s signature legislation went out with a whimper. But the forces behind it have bigger plans.
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Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty The Right-Wing Israeli Campaign to Resettle Gaza
Most Israelis don’t want to build new settlements in Gaza. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Brendan Smialowski / … Biden’s Smart Strategy for Outmaneuvering Bibi
Netanyahu has deftly navigated multiple Democratic presidents. Biden is trying to change that.
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The Atlantic How to Be Anti-Semitic and Get Away With It
Too many communities have developed ways to excuse or otherwise ignore prejudice.
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Nathan Laine / Bloomberg / Getty Elon Musk’s Disturbing ‘Truth’
The billionaire affirmed the deadliest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in recent American history.
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Elliott Franks / eyevine / Redux The Day After Netanyahu
Israel has long succeeded in spite of its leaders, not because of them.
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Chris McGrath / Getty When Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
The most consequential form of anti-Zionism today is the one that deploys guns and rockets.
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Jack Guez / AFP / Getty The End of Netanyahu
He sold Israelis a story about their safety. It turned out not to be true.
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Adel Hana / AP What Hamas Wants
The straightforward explanation that the experts missed
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Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg / Getty ‘We’re Going to Die Here’
A firsthand account of tragedy and heroism from the slaughter that left more than 900 Israelis dead
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When You’re Not in Control of Your Life
This week’s Jewish holiday reminds us that the line between our success and failure is thinner and more fragile than we like to think.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nathan Laine / … The Unlikely World Leader Who Just Dispelled Musk’s Utopian AI Dreams
Benjamin Netanyahu is not buying what the billionaire is selling. He may have a point.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Trump’s Menacing Rosh Hashanah Message to American Jews
The former president’s anti-Jewish remarks follow an old pattern.
