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Steve Rosenberg

Steve Rosenberg is principal of the GSD Group and board chair of the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He is the author of Make Bold Things Happen: Inspirational Stories From Sports, Business and Life.

A World War II cattle car exhibit teaching lessons of the Holocaust is being shown throughout the United States. Credit: Courtesy of Hate Ends Now.

Why Holocaust education isn’t enough to combat antisemitism today

We must reframe Jewish history from one of victimhood to one of strength, agency and contributions to global society.

Steve Rosenberg

Nov. 26, 2024

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 24, 2024. Photo by Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images.

The ‘shomer’ who isn’t watching out for the Jewish community

At a time when public outcry is desperately needed to confront antisemitism, Chuck Schumer's silence and inaction are as disturbing as they are disappointing.

Steve Rosenberg

Nov. 14, 2024

People pay their respects at a memorial in front of the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh to the 11 Jewish victims of a mass shooting a week earlier, Nov. 4, 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

United in grief, strong in hope before sixth anniversary of Tree of Life shooting

What sets this year apart is not only the physical trauma of a seven-front war facing Israel but the ripple effect this has had on Jews worldwide.

Steve Rosenberg

Oct. 20, 2024

Israeli soldiers patrol the Blue Line, a territory between Israel and Lebanon, near Kibbutz Misgav Am, on March 9, 2021. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

The absurdity of calls for a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel

Instead of pursuing unproductive talks, the focus should be on enforcing existing resolutions, like U.N. Resolution 1701.

Steve Rosenberg

Sep. 30, 2024

U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO head Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library/National Archives & Records Administration.

The two-state delusion

Why the pursuit of the two-state solution is a path to more terror, not peace.

Steve Rosenberg

Aug. 20, 2024

Israelis call for the release of hostages held captive in Gaza, outside the Red Cross offices in Tel Aviv, Jan. 18, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

‘Let them go,’ not ‘bring them home’

The onus must be placed on Hamas, not Israel, to return the hostages.

Steve Rosenberg

Jul. 21, 2024

An anti-Israel parade-goer walks past the crowds during Pride In London on June 29, 2024. Credit: Alex McBride/Getty Images.

The paradox of ‘Queers for Palestine’

Don’t let antisemitism allow you to align yourself with those who would kill you at the first opportunity.

Steve Rosenberg

Jul. 2, 2024

Carlos Frost and his son, Aaron Frost, draped themselves with an Israeli flag at a solidarity rally for Israel in Miami Beach, Fla., on Oct. 10, 2023. Photo by Sergio Carmona.

The cost of altruism

“Tikkun olam” and the loneliness of the Jewish fight against antisemitism.

Steve Rosenberg

Jun. 6, 2024

Adolf Hitler standing in his Mercedes-Benz 770 reviewing SA (Sturmabteilung) members in a parade during the Nuremberg rally, the sixth Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg attended by about 700,000 Nazi Party supporters, Sept. 5-10, 1934. Hitler is accompanied by the Blutfahne, (“Blood Flag,” ceremonial swastika flag) and its bearer SS-Sturmbannführer Jakob Grimminger. Credit: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, the National Digital Archives of Poland via Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

Are we the Jews of the 1930s?

The awful turn of events castigating us as the bad guy in this fight should have set off alarms.

Steve Rosenberg

May. 28, 2024