Donna rosenthal biography

DONNA ROSENTHAL is the author of the award-winning THE ISRAELIS: ORDINARY PEOPLE in an EXTRAORDINARY LAND. Called the best book about Israelis in decades, THE ISRAELIS has more than excellent international reviews across the religious and political spectrums: from the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post to The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz and from The Japan Times to Die Zeit and Die Welt.

Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, Newsweek and The Atlantic and many other publications.

She was a news producer at Israel TV, reporter for Israel Radio and The Jerusalem Post, and a lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Ms. Rosenthal has reported from Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and was the first journalist to travel to remote mountain villages of Ethiopia and tell Israeli radio audiences about black Jews praying -- in mud hut synagogues -- to go to