11 Facts About Yair Rosenberg

Yair Rosenberg is an American journalist and a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers politics, culture, and religion, and writes the Deep Shtetl newsletter.

Yair Rosenberg has interviewed and profiled multiple White House chiefs of staff and cabinet members.

Yair Rosenberg elicited a correction from the US Supreme Court on a point of Jewish history.

Yair Rosenberg is known for his parodies of antisemites on Twitter, and more serious efforts to combat abuse on online platforms, including a video series aimed at educating the uninitiated about the history, nuances, and dangers of modern-day antisemitism.

Yair Rosenberg is credited with coining the sarcastic Internet adage Goebbels Gap, which he defined as the amount of time between a negative event transpiring in the world and someone finding a way to blame it on the Jews.

Yair Rosenberg has written for and been interviewed by The New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, Pod Save the World, Fast Company, and CBC News, among others.

Yair Rosenberg's writings have received awards from the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and the Religion Newswriters Association.

Since the report's publication, Yair Rosenberg has focused extensively on the issue of online harassment and antisemitism, including through the creation of the "Impostor Buster" Twitter bot that exposed neo-Nazi trolls masquerading as minorities on the platform, which received coverage from The New York Times and other global news outlets.

Yair Rosenberg wrote about his experience and efforts to combat online abuse in the Times.

Yair Rosenberg is a singer and composer of original Jewish music.

Yair Rosenberg's collaborators include singers Arun Viswanath and Abbaleh Savitt, as well as producer Charles Newman.