NEW YORK — The New York Times has hired Yair Rosenberg to launch a national beat covering Jewish American life, beginning July 20, 2026. National Editor Nestor Ramos announced the appointment on Monday.

This marks the first time the outlet has established a beat dedicated to Jews. Rosenberg is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes the "Deep Shtetl" newsletter. In a memo to staff, Ramos wrote: "Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad, Yair has taken on the biggest, thorniest stories on the beat." Ramos added: "Now, Yair will bring that boundless energy and deep expertise to a new religion beat on National, focused on Jewish American life, chronicling a period of extraordinary tension but also possibility and reinvention."

Rosenberg joined The Atlantic in 2021. Prior to this, he spent nearly a decade at Tablet magazine. In 2016, an Anti-Defamation League study found Rosenberg was among the Jewish journalists most frequently targeted with antisemitic abuse on Twitter.

Rosenberg developed a tool called "Impostor Buster" designed to expose white supremacists posing online as minorities. Twitter later suspended the tool. He also wrote a guest essay for the outlet titled "Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter."

Jodi Rudoren, the editorial director of newsletters at the outlet, stated: "There is no reporter with sharper insights about what animates American Jews." Rudoren previously served as editor in chief of The Forward. She also said: "I was jealous of everything he filed. Every. Single. Thing." Rosenberg will be based in New York and will travel nationally as part of his new role.

In 2018, Rosenberg criticized the outlet's Book Review in a Tablet article for providing a platform for Alice Walker to recommend a book by David Icke. In 2019, he criticized the outlet for a profile of Valerie Plame that did not mention her history of sharing antisemitic theories on Twitter. The outlet discontinued its subscription to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency syndication service in 1937.