Monthly luncheons are generally held on the second Monday of every month, unless advised to the contrary, at Chez Marcel restaurant in the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine.
Shmuel Rosner, Ha'aretz Washington Bureau Chief
October 2008
Topic: To be announced
Shmuel Rosner is Chief U.S. Correspondent for the Israeli daily Haaretz, and is based in Washington.
In the years 1996-2005 Rosner was a senior editor for Haaretz, working as the head of the features department for 4 years (‘96-2000) and as the head of the news division for 5 years (2000-‘05).
Previously, Rosner worked in several other Israeli dailies and weeklies as a news editor, business editor, features editor and reporter. In 1993 Rosner wrote a three-times a week column for Haaretz, covering the implementation of the Oslo accords in Gaza and the West Bank. Rosner also served as a producer and editor in the IDF radio station.
For one year (1995) Rosner took a leave from journalism and has volunteered to work as an educator in the Jewish community of Kitchener, Canada (1995).
A long-time American history buff, in the last decade Rosner has written numerous pieces about U.S. policy and politics, and traveled across the United States covering the 2000, 2004 and 2006 elections for Haaretz. He has been a frequent guest on Israeli television and radio as an analyst of American policy, and has lectured in many institutions on Israeli journalism and politics. Since he came to the US Rosner has lectured in many Jewish gatherings and communities, and also in several Universities and Think Tanks. He was invited by the State Department to speak to American diplomats and was a guest speaker at several courses in the Army War College.
Apart from reporting for Haaretz and for writing a daily blog (www.rosnersdomain.com) Rosner is also a frequent contributor to the American magazine Slate (www.slate.com).
Rosner was raised and educated in Jerusalem, and before coming to the U.S. lived in Tel Aviv. He now lives with his wife and their four children in Maryland.