For the past five years Rosenberg has written The Atlantic\u2019s \u201cDeep Shtetl\u201d newsletter, blending coverage of antisemitism, American politics and Jewish culture with essays on history, religion and popular culture. Before joining The Atlantic in 2021, he spent nearly a decade at Tablet, a magazine of Jewish affairs.<\/p>\n
Over the years, Rosenberg has broken or advanced reporting on online extremism and antisemitism while also becoming known for explaining Jewish issues to a broad audience. His work has ranged from investigations into antisemitic disinformation networks to historical features. He has written about antisemitism on the far left<\/a> and on the far right<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t During the 2016 presidential campaign, an Anti-Defamation League study found Rosenberg was among the Jewish journalists<\/a> most frequently targeted with antisemitic abuse on Twitter. Rosenberg became known for responding publicly to trolls and for developing technological tools \u2014 including an \u201cImpostor Buster\u201d bot \u2014 designed to expose white supremacists posing online as minorities in order to inflame social tensions. The effort drew widespread attention before Twitter eventually suspended the tool.<\/p>\n He later described those experiences in a New York Times guest essay titled \u201cConfessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter,<\/a>\u201d and has remained a frequent public speaker on combating online hate while preserving free expression.<\/p>\n Ramos\u2019s announcement emphasized that Rosenberg\u2019s beat would extend beyond antisemitism.<\/p>\n \u201cYair knows better than most that these fraught moments are not all that define Jewish life today \u2014 not even close,\u201d Ramos wrote, citing stories on Hanukkah traditions, Jewish representation in popular culture and other facets of American Jewish life.<\/p>\n The Times\u2019 editorial director of newsletters, Jodi Rudoren \u2014 who returned to the Times after serving as editor in chief of the US Jewish newspaper The Forward \u2014 praised Rosenberg in the announcement.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no reporter with sharper insights about what animates American Jews,\u201d Rudoren said. \u201cI was jealous of everything he filed. Every. Single. Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n The Times, through a spokesman, declined to comment beyond Monday\u2019s announcement. Rosenberg did not respond to a request for an interview by press time.<\/p>\n \t The hire comes as The New York Times continues to navigate a complicated relationship with many Jewish readers.<\/p>\n For decades the newspaper has occupied an outsize place in American Jewish public life, employing prominent Jewish reporters and editors while producing influential coverage of religion, Israel and antisemitism. Yet the newspaper has also faced sustained criticism from parts of the Jewish community over its Israel coverage, criticism that intensified after October 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza.<\/p>\n Media watchdog organizations, some Jewish communal leaders and a number of current and former journalists have accused the Times of factual errors, headline framing and insufficient skepticism toward claims made by Hamas officials in some early coverage of the conflict.<\/p>\n A May 2026 column by Nicholas Kristof<\/a>, alleging systemic sexual violence by Israeli authorities against Palestinian detainees, was widely criticized for amplifying unverified claims and platforming biased sources. The Times stood by Kristof\u2019s column in an editorial note.<\/p>\n Defenders of the Times argue that accusations of institutional anti-Israel bias often conflate disagreement over editorial judgments with evidence of systemic prejudice.<\/p>\n \t At Tablet and The Atlantic, Rosenberg occasionally criticized aspects of the Times\u2019 reporting on both Israel and antisemitism. In a 2018 Tablet article he criticized The New York Times Book Review<\/a> for offering a platform for the novelist Alice Walker to recommend a book by the English author David Icke that was heavily saturated in antisemitic conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n The next year he called out the Times for a profile of former CIA officer and would-be congressional candidate Valerie Plame<\/a> that failed to mention her history of tweets sharing antisemitic theories. He has also regretted<\/a> that the Times in 1937 dropped its subscription to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency syndication service because of the perception at the time that JTA\u2019s coverage of the Nazis was alarmist<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unlike some Jewish media watchdog groups, however, Rosenberg has not argued that the Times is institutionally or inherently biased against Israel or Jews. Against that backdrop, Rosenberg\u2019s hiring is likely to be watched closely by Jewish readers across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n According to Ramos, Rosenberg will begin work July 20 and will be based in New York while traveling nationally for the beat.<\/p>\n
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