The Tikvah Fellowship Program

The Tikvah Fellowship is a paid one-year program for exceptional individuals interested in the political, religious, and intellectual future of the Jewish people. The fellowship is based in New York City, and each fellow receives a stipend of between $30,000 and $75,000, depending on age, experience, and need.

The fellowship is open to anyone with a completed undergraduate degree – including applicants with professional experience and graduate degrees.

Additional information can be found in our program flyer (PDF).

Applications to the 2012-2013 Tikvah Fellowship are now closed.

The Tikvah Fellowship includes four core elements:

• Work Experience: Many fellows work in one of the leading institutions of Jewish and/or American life – such as think
  tanks, magazines of ideas, synagogues, day schools, or civic-political organizations. This year’s Fellows, for example, are working at the Wall Street Journal, the Brookings Institution, SAR High School, Lincoln Square Synagogue, and a new project focused on promoting free-market ideas in Israel.

• Advanced Seminars: A series of graduate-level courses with preeminent professors and prominent thinkers. Courses include: “War, Morality and Statesmanship,” with leading public intellectual Walter Russell Mead; “Literature, Politics, and the Jews,” with Harvard University professor Ruth Wisse; “Jewish Theology,” with Yeshiva University professor Rabbi Meir Soloveichik; and “The History of Zionist Thought” with Jewish Review of Books senior editor Allan Arkush.

• Independent Projects: Many Fellows undertake a major research project in Jewish thought, political thought, history, strategic studies, or the humanities; or an entrepreneurial project aimed at confronting the pressing challenges facing the Jewish people and the Jewish State.

• Speaker Series and Professional Development: Fellows meet individually with intellectual, political, religious, and civic leaders, who share their experiences and offer fellows guidance and advice about the next steps in their lives and careers.