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Rachel Rosner

Jun 4, 2025, 12:59 PM

How soon is too soon? School trips to October 7 sites

Israeli security seen next to burnt cars at the entrance to the Gaza border community of Kibbutz Be'eri, October 9, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Preparing teens to encounter trauma requires guidance, time to process and reflect, and room to ask difficult questions. But what if it's too recent for that?

About Me

Rachel R. Rosner is an American, Israel-based philosopher, writer, and junior fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She recently completed her PhD in philosophy and writes on antisemitism, memory, identity, and critical theory. Her forthcoming book, Adorno and the Question of Theology: Religion and Reason Beyond Foundations (Bloomsbury), challenges the secular-religious divide in contemporary thought and advances a model of pluralistic ethics grounded in nonfoundational reasoning.