Rosner’s Domain | What Do You Want from Me?
November 16, 2023
Is it our job to tell the story, or to help win the war? Does our job require that we be impartial, or does it require that we be partisan?
Shmuel Rosner
Shmuel Rosner is an Israeli columnist, editor, and researcher. He is the editor of the research and data-journalism website themadad.com, and is the political editor of the Jewish Journal.
Rosner’s Domain | The ‘Day After’ Agnostics
November 8, 2023
What will the Gaza Strip look like the day after? That depends, first and foremost, on the outcome of the war. It also depends on Israel’s wishes, and on international pressures, and on internal Palestinian trends.
Rosner’s Domain | How Israel Already Changes
October 31, 2023
Upheavals of the kind that Israel is going through are often followed by significant social, political and ideological changes.
Rosner’s Domain | Hamtana: As We Wait
October 25, 2023
Waiting is a difficult challenge. War – of course – is an even more difficult challenge. And still, waiting for war is not to be taken lightly.
Rosner’s Domain | Five Comments about the War as a Balancing Act
October 19, 2023
American backing is essential as long as it doesn’t mean that Israel is going to compromise on its main objectives.
How Could This Have Happened
October 12, 2023
The most difficult day in Israel’s history is behind us, and very difficult days — hopefully not equally difficult, or more difficult — are still ahead of us.
Rosner’s Domain | Zoroastrians, Huguenots, and Israel
October 4, 2023
A war for a degree of separation of religion and state is not a religious war.
Prayer vs. Provocation: Why Israelis Fought on Yom Kippur
September 26, 2023
It’s a discourse of people who live in parallel universes: those who regard what happened as an enraging sabotage of a Yom Kippur prayer, and those who regard it as a provocation masquerading as a Yom Kippur prayer.
Rosner’s Domain | A War at Fifty
September 20, 2023
Fifty years have passed, but in Israel it is still impossible to disentangle the tremble and awe of Yom Kippur from the trauma of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Rosner’s Domain | Basic Truth on Basic Laws
September 13, 2023
On Tuesday, Israel’s High Court convened to hear the case for and against striking down the so-called “reasonableness law,” that would curb the top court’s power to exercise judicial review over government decisions.
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