Joel Rosenberg - Why I write fiction

Joel C. Rosenberg, the grandson of Orthodox Jews who escaped Czarist Russia in the early 1900s, is a New York Times best-selling author of twelve novels and five non-fiction books with nearly five million copies in print. He has addressed audiences at the White House, Pentagon, U.S. Capitol, Canadian Parliament, and the European Union Parliament, and has met with world leaders such as Jordan's King Abdullah II, Egyptian President el-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, among others. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs in the U.S., Canada and around the world and has been profiled by the New York Times, the Washington Times and the Jerusalem Post. A well-known Evangelical in the U.S., he is the founder and chairman of The Joshua Fund, a non-profit educational and humanitarian relief organization dedicated to educating and mobilizing Christians to "bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus, according to Genesis 12:1-3." Joel comes from a Jewish background on his father's side, and a Gentile background on his mother's side. He and his wife, Lynn, are dual U.S.-Israeli citizens. They made Aliyah in 2014 and live with their sons in Israel.