Jonathan (Yonoson) Rosenblum has been called 'arguably the most widely read and influential chareidi writer in English' (Dr. Yoel Finkelman, Strictly Kosher Reading). Over the past thirty years, he has published approximately 2,500 columns and longer essays in a wide range of venues, both secular and religious. During his twenty year stint as columnist with the Jerusalem Post, he was the only chareidi columnist writing regularly in any mainstream Israeli paper. (He also wrote for the Hebrew-language Maariv.) His writings have been published in Commentary, Moment, the Sapir Journal, the Jewish Week, and in virtually every Orthodox weekly or monthly publication, including a weekly column in Mishpacha Magazine for the past 20 years. In addition, he has written seven biographies of major Torah leaders and co-authored a memoir with Lieutenant Meyer Birnbaum; translated biographies of the Vilna Gaon and Rav Chaim of Volozhin; and has adapted into print Rabbi Yitzchak Kirzner's classes on making sense of suffering and Rabbi Uri Zohar's guidance on dealing with struggling teenagers. Jonathan Rosenblum came to Israel with his wife Judith, a psychotherapist, on their honeymoon over 44 years ago, and remained. They live in Jerusalem, where they raised their eight children. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Yale Law School, and practiced law in Chicago, followed by more than a decade of full-time yeshiva and kollel learning. He uses his secular and religious training and background to make the two poles of the Jewish world more comprehensible to one another.