Alan Rosenbaum

Alan Rosenbaum covers a wide variety of stories for the Jerusalem Post, ranging from the popular Veterans/New Arrivals column in the Friday Magazine, to feature particles, promotional pieces, and coverage of Jpost Conferences. Before embarking on his journalism career, Alan was vice president of the Davka Corporation for 30 years, which pioneered the development of Hebrew and Judaic software.. Alan holds a bachelors’ degree in political science from Northeastern Illinois University, a master’s degree in administration from Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, and received rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois. Born and raised in Chicago, he has lived in Israel since 1996.

Jews at the Western Wall, 1870s.

The beauty and frustration of Shavuot at the Western Wall

ARI STEINBERG (R), Chairman of Wingate Sport Institute and CEO of Ashmoret, and the athletes who won medals at the 2025 World Games.

Under fire: The resilience of Israel’s sports and education

HEBREW UNIVERSITY Business School students.

Why AI could create the next wave of Israeli unicorns


On the Front Lines of Care: Kaplan Medical Center Faces War’s Challenges, Eyes Major Expansion

CEO, Prof. Tarif Bader, "High-quality care rests on the strength of three pillars: personnel, technology, and infrastructure.”

Prof. Tarif Bader, the CEO of Kaplan Medical Center.

Reviving Tel Hai: Yair Belachovsky’s mission to preserve a defining legacy

"Through my activities with Israel Revival, I want to advance the idea that the story of Tel Hai, with its lessons of unity and serving the greater good, becomes the basis for the revival of Israel.”

Yair Belachovsky speaks at a state memorial ceremony for Joseph Trumpeldor and the defenders of Tel Hai in 2025

'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review

From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.

Rabbi Danny Tropper, founder of Gesher.

‘Copenhagen’ in Jerusalem revisits the Nazi-era meeting that shaped the nuclear age

Copenhagen in Jerusalem’s Khan Theatre probes truth, memory, and nuclear ethics through the enigmatic 1941 meeting of Bohr and Heisenberg.

The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was founded in 1921 as the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen by Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr.

Building Israel, delivering returns: Inside Keystone’s infrastructure strategy

From power plants and transportation to data centers, Keystone Infra is positioning itself as a gateway for investors seeking long-term exposure to Israel’s growing infrastructure economy

Navot Bar, CEO and co-founder of Keystone Infra

Where terror meets the rule of law

Led by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat Hadin is using lawsuits and international legal pressure to hold terror groups and their sponsors accountable

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat HaDin president: ‘If all the democratic states could wage financial war against terror regimes, they could eliminate evil from the world.’

Inside Jerusalem’s 1948 siege through the eyes of a child who survived the Old City’s fall

In her book ‘Forever My Jerusalem,’ Shteiner recalls life in the Old City before its fall in 1948 and the emotional return decades later.

Hurva remains, 1972.

Coalition pushes to extend delivery exemptions for life-saving equipment to IDF soldiers

With Adi Vaxman and Operation Israel among key advocates, a Knesset hearing highlights efforts to speed critical defensive gear to the frontlines

Smadar Lublin-Katz, Managing Director in Israel of Operation Israel.

Eduard Shyfrin introduces a first-ever systematic theory of Kabbalah for the modern era

In ‘The Relativity of Death,’ Shyfrin transforms centuries of mystical thought into a structured framework – connecting information, consciousness, and reality’s deeper architecture.

EDUARD SHYFRIN, author, scientist, and musician.

Five years after Meron: Dubi Weissenstern on memory, mourning, and meaning

The head of ZAKA reflects on the lessons of the Lag Ba’omer tragedy – and what they reveal about resilience, responsibility, and the challenges facing Israel today

Dubi Weissenstern, CEO of ZAKA, ref!ects on the Meron tragedy.