Jonathan Rosenblatt: what Wikipedia removed
Jonathan Rosenblatt is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi whose brother-in-law, Moshe Twersky, was murdered in a synagogue attack in Jerusalem. Through 2015 the opening stated that Twersky “was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a synagogue in Jerusalem.” Today’s opening does not mention the murder at all, though terror survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving now does not learn that Rosenblatt’s brother-in-law was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a synagogue.
The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| jihad | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The sentence naming his brother-in-law Moshe Twersky’s murder by Palestinian terrorists in a Jerusalem synagogue attack, dropped from the opening entirely.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 368841700):
Jonathan Rosenblatt is an American Rabbi . Rabbi Dr. Rosenblatt was born in Template:City-state . He is the great-grandson of Yossele Rosenblatt . Rabbi Dr. Rosenblatt earned the BA and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University in Comparative Literature. He has a PhD from Columbia University in the field of Modern British Literature, specifically Ulysses by James Joyce. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1982. He is married to an attorney, Tzipporah Rosenblatt , daughter of Isadore Twersky . They have four children: Yehudah, Tonya, Shmuel and Rivka. Rabbi Dr. Rosenblatt is the rabbi of the Riverdale Jewis…
2025 (revision 1232494908):
American Modern Orthodox rabbi, teacher, lecturer and counselor Jonathan I. Rosenblatt (born August 31, 1956) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi , teacher, lecturer, and counselor.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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