The Tikvah Fellowship
Faculty

Faculty

Teachers in the Tikvah Fellowship are drawn from the finest institutions of higher learning and the ranks of distinguished writers and intellectuals. Authorities in their fields, they are committed to the advancement of Jewish flourishing and to studying the great texts of Jewish and Western civilization in the service of a fully examined life.

Complementing the regular teaching schedule are weekly guest lectures as well as meetings with prominent professionals in the various areas of fellows’ vocational interest.  

Faculty members are organized by core concentration and may be cross-listed between courses.

Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser in the administration of George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House. He also served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan administration. A member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, he teaches U.S. foreign policy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is the author of Undue Process (1993), Security and Sacrifice (1995), and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America (1997), and writes widely on U.S. foreign policy with special focus on the Middle East and the issues of democracy and human rights.

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Allan Arkush

Allan Arkush is Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton and senior editor of the Jewish Review of Books. He holds degrees from Cornell University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Brandeis University. He is the author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment and co-editor of Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism: Essays in Memory of Alexander Altmann. His numerous essays on modern Jewish thought and Zionism have appeared in Modern Judaism, Jewish Social Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, Polity, and other periodicals and books. He is the translator of Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem and Gershom Scholem’s Origins of the Kabbalah. Professor Arkush has been a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Starr fellow at Harvard University. From 2006 to 2009 he was the editor of AJS Perspectives, the magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Currently, Professor Arkush is a visiting fellow at Princeton University.

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Leora Batnitzky

Leora Batnitzky is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University, and the Director of Princeton’s Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000), Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006), and How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (2011). Her latest project focuses on the relations between modern Jewish and Christian religious thought and modern legal theory.

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Peter Berkowitz

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and academic director of the Tikvah Fund’s summer institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War (2012), Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1999), and Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (1995). His book Constitutional Conservatism is forthcoming in winter 2013. In addition, he is the editor of Varieties of Conservatism in America (2004) and Varieties of Progressivism in America (2004), as well as of The Future of American Intelligence (2005), Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution (2005), and Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (2003). He has written hundreds of essays, articles, and reviews on many subjects for a wide variety of newspapers and periodicals.

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Joshua Berman

Joshua Berman is a lecturer in Bible at Bar-Ilan University and an Associate Fellow at the Shalem Center of Jerusalem. He is the author, most recently, of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (2008). In addition to the political thought of ancient Israel, his primary research interest has been in biblical narrative; his writings in that field have appeared in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, and Catholic Biblical Quarterly. He has also written on biblical theology and contemporary issues in Azure, Tradition, Midstream, and the Jerusalem Post.

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Max Boot

Max Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. A regular contributor to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications, he is the author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (2002), War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History (2006), and Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (forthcoming in January 2013). A frequent public speaker and guest on news programs, he has lectured on behalf of the U.S. State Department and at many military institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

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Paul Cantor

Paul Cantor is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (2001), Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism (1984), and Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire (1976). In addition to his study of Elizabethan and Romantic literature, Cantor has a keen interest in the Austrian school of economics and the work of Ludwig von Mises.

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James Capretta

James C. Capretta, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), studies and provides commentary on a wide range of public- policy and economic issues, with a focus on health care and entitlement reform, U.S. fiscal policy, and global population aging. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico, the Weekly Standard, and elsewhere, and he has testified before Congress and serves frequently as a commentator on television and radio. In 2001-2004, he was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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Thomas W. Carroll

Thomas Carroll is the president of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, a think tank on educational issues in New York State with a focus on accountability, innovation, and choice. He is also chairman of the Brighter Choice Foundation, which provides philanthropic support and technical assistance to a network of public charter schools in Albany, New York whose students come predominantly from economically disadvantaged families. His political experience includes service in various fiscal and research positions in the New York State Senate, Assembly, and Division of the Budget.

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James Ceaser

James W. Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books on American politics and political thought include Presidential Selection (1979), Liberal Democracy and Political Science (1992), Reconstructing America (1997), Nature and History in American Political Development (2006), and Designing a Polity (2010). A frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, and a regular commentator on American politics for the Voice of America, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Basel, and the University of Bordeaux.

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Eric Cohen

Eric Cohen, Executive Director of the Tikvah Fund and editor-at-large of the New Atlantis, has published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology (2008) and co-editor of The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (2002). He was previously managing editor of the Public Interest and served as a senior consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics.

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Eliot A. Cohen

Eliot A. Cohen is Professor of Strategic Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and founding director of the Center for Strategic Studies there. His books include Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War (with John Gooch, 1990), Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (2002), and Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War (2011). He has served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, as a member of the Defense Policy Advisory Board in the Department of Defense, and as Counselor of the Department of State.

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Christopher DeMuth

Christopher DeMuth, currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, was president of the American Enterprise Institute from 1986 to 2008 and Senior Fellow at AEI in 2008–2011. He has taught public policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and has published widely on social and economic policy. His book, Conservatism and Regulation, is forthcoming later this year.

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Michael Doran

Michael Doran, an expert in U.S. policy toward the Middle East, radical Islam, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He has held academic appointments at Princeton and the University of Central Florida, and most recently served as visiting professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. He has also held a number of senior U.S. government posts related to Middle East policy and strategic communication.  Among his scholarly works are Pan-Arabism before Nasser (1999) and a forthcoming study of the Eisenhower administration and the Middle East.

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Eric Edelman

Eric S. Edelman is Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Visiting Scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins, and a senior associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. Before retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service in May 2009, he held senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House; among numerous other assignments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Turkey, as special assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz, and as a member of the U.S. Middle East Delegation to the West Bank/Gaza Autonomy Talks. Among his awards are the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and the Légion d’Honneur conferred by the French government.

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Hillel Fradkin

Hillel Fradkin is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and the director of its Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World. He is the founder and co-editor of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology and general editor of Hudson’s monograph series on contemporary Islam and Islamism. He writes widely on both classical and contemporary Islam as well as Middle Eastern politics, American foreign and security policy, and the history of Jewish thought.

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William Galston

William Galston is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding board member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the campaign’s Task Force on Religion and Public Values. His books include Liberal Pluralism (2002) and Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (2005). He served as senior adviser to President Bill Clinton for domestic policy.

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Ruth Gavison

Ruth Gavison is Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, she served as its President in 1996-1999. She is also the founding President of the Metzilah Center, a member of the International Commission of Jurists, and a member of the presidium of Moetzet Yahad, a national body on consensus-building between religious and secular Jews in Israel. Her areas of research include the relationship between law and politics, processes of constitution-making, the private-public distinction, Israeli society, and the role of laws and courts in divided democracies. A frequent contributor to the Israeli media, she is a regular participant in public debates.

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Paul Gigot

Paul Gigot is the editorial-page editor and vice president of the Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since 2001. He is also the host of a weekly half-hour news program, the Journal Editorial Report, on the Fox News Channel. Having joined the Journal in 1980 as a reporter, he quickly became the paper’s Asia correspondent and then the first editorial-page editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. In 1987, assigned to Washington, he contributed editorials and a weekly column on politics, “Potomac Watch,” which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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Mark Gottlieb

Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and Dean of the Tikvah Summer Institute at Yale University. Prior to joining Tikvah, Rabbi Gottlieb served as Head of School at Yeshiva University High School for Boys in New York and Principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA. He received an MA in Philosophy at the University of Chicago and has taught at the Frisch School, the Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Loyola University in Chicago, and the University of Chicago.

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Eric Gregory

Eric Gregory is Professor of Religion at Princeton and the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (2008).  His interests include religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life.  Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled What Do We Owe Strangers? Globalization and the Good Samaritan. 

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Moshe Halbertal

Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor and co-director of the Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at the New York University School of Law and a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Idolatry (with Avishai Margalit, 1992), People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority (1997), Concealment and Revelation (2007), and, in Hebrew, Interpretative Revolutions in the Making (1997) and By Way of Truth: Nahmanides and the Creation of Tradition (2006).

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Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin is the author of a novel, Melisande! What are Dreams? (2012), as well as Yehuda Halevi (2010),  A Strange Death (2005), Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel (2002), and Letters to an American-Jewish Friend: A Zionist Polemic (1977).  His essays have appeared in Commentary, the New Republic, the Jerusalem Post, and other publications, and he serves on the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books. A master translator from Hebrew and Yiddish, he most recently rendered into English Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners, forthcoming from Yale.

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Philip Hamburger

Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University, is the author of, among other works, Separation of Church and State (2002) and Law and Judicial Duty (2007). His scholarship focuses on constitutional law and its history. 

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. A classicist by training and a long-time professor of classics, he has written extensively on Greek, agrarian, and military history as well as on contemporary culture and politics. His books include Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern (2010), Carnage and Culture (2001), A War like No Other (2005), The Western Way of War (1989), and The Wars of the Ancient Greeks (1999). Essays, editorials, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, National Review, American Heritage, Policy Review, Commentary, the Wilson Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, the Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere. Currently he is a syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services and a weekly columnist for National Review Online and Pajamas Media.

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Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, is the author of The World America Made (2012), The Return of History and the End of Dreams (2008), Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (2006), and the best-selling Of Paradise and Power (2003). An adjunct professor of history at Georgetown University, he writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and the New Republic.

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Leon Kass

Leon Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and holds the Madden-Jewett chair at the American Enterprise Institute. A physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, he served in 2001-2005 as chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics. His books include Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (1985), The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature (1994), Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity (2002), and The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (2003). His most recent book, co-edited with Amy Kass and Diana Schaub, is What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.

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William Kristol

William Kristol is editor of the Weekly Standard and chairman and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century. He is the co-author, with Lawrence Kaplan, of the best-selling book The War Over Iraq (2003) and the co-editor of The Neoconservative Imagination (with Christopher DeMuth, 1995), Present Dangers (with Robert Kagan, 2000), and The Future is Now: American Confronts the New Genetics (with Eric Cohen, 2002). He has published numerous articles and essays on constitutional law, political philosophy, and public policy, and appears regularly on Fox News Channel.

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Jon D. Levenson

Jon D. Levenson is Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His books include The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son (1993), Creation and the Persistence of Evil (1994), and Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life (2006). His latest book, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, a volume in the Tikvah-sponsored Library of Jewish Ideas, will be published in October 2012 by Princeton University Press. He is a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books.

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Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin is the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the founding editor of National Affairs magazine. His areas of specialty include health care, entitlement reform, economic and domestic policy, science and technology policy, political philosophy, and bioethics. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications, and he is the author, most recently, of Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (2008).

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Seth Lipsky

Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the New York Sun and Forward newspapers and a former foreign editor and member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He was a roving correspondent in Asia for the Wall Street Journal and a combat reporter in Vietnam for Pacific Stars and Stripes. His most recent book is The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide.

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Daniel Mahoney

Daniel J. Mahoney is Professor of Politics at Assumption College and the author of The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order (2011) as well as of books on Raymond Aron, Charles de Gaulle, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the co-editor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in a wide range of public and scholarly journals in the United States and abroad.

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Wilfred McClay

Wilfred M. McClay, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, holds the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also Professor of History. His books include: The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994), The Student’s Guide to U.S. History (2001), and Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America (2003). He is co-editor of a series entitled American Intellectual Culture (Rowman & Littlefield) and serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals.

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Gilbert Meilaender

Gilbert Meilaender has taught since 1996 at Valparaiso University, where he holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics. Among his books are Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics, Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics, Body, Soul and Bioethics, and Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of the advisory council of First Things, and served on the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009.

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Joshua Mitchell

Joshua Mitchell is Professor of Political Theory at Georgetown University and the author of Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought (1993), The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and American Future (1995), and Plato’s Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times (2006). He is currently working on two books,  Reinhold Niebuhr and the Politics of Hope and Tocqueville in Arabia, the latter drawing on his experience as Acting Chancellor of the American University of Iraq–Sulaimani (2008-10).

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Alan Mittleman

Alan Mittleman is director of the Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The author of, among other books, Hope in a Democratic Age (2009) and A Short History of Jewish Ethics (2011), he is currently at work on a volume about Jewish views of human nature for the Library of Jewish Ideas, a series sponsored by Tikvah in partnership with Princeton University Press. From 2000 to 2004, he served as director of Jews and the American Public Square, a research project that produced two national surveys of Jewish opinion, four volumes of scholarly essays, and fifteen conferences around the U.S.

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Omer Moav

Omer Moav is Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Warwick, UK. He has done influential work on the tax burden in Israel, the failure of capital-investment subsidies to create jobs at the periphery, and the “brain drain” of young Israeli academics, entrepreneurs, and professionals. His research on economic growth, with an emphasis on income inequality, demography, and human capital, has appeared in leading journals of economics.

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James Otteson

James Otteson is Joint Professor of Philosophy and Economics at Yeshiva University, where he specializes in the history of modern philosophy, political philosophy, and the history and philosophy of economics.  His recent books include Adam Smith (2011), Actual Ethics (2006), and Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (2002).  In addition to his major areas, he has taught on the ethics of business, the ethics of philanthropy, and the issue of capitalism and morality.

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Paul A. Rahe

Paul A. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is Professor of History. He is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992), Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (2008), Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (2009),  and Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (2009).

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Mark Regnerus

Mark Regnerus is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Premarital Sex in America (2010) and Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (2007).  He has published over 30 articles and book chapters in the areas of sexual behavior, family, and religious behavior.

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Shlomo Riskin

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, founding chief rabbi of Efrat in Israel, and founder and chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone colleges and graduate programs. He has been particularly active in protecting the rights of women and advancing their participation in Judaism, and in fostering dialogue with Christian and other religious leaders. He has published five books, most recently Listening to God: Inspirational Stories for My Grandchildren, and is the author of scores of articles and monographs on Judaism and contemporary issues as well as a weekly newspaper column syndicated worldwide.

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Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts, the British historian, has written or edited twelve books and appears regularly on radio and television around the world. His books include The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (2009), Masters and Commanders (2008), Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble (2005), and Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003). He sits on the boards or advisory councils of a number of think-tanks and public-policy groups, including, in England, the Centre for Policy Studies, the European Foundation, and the Centre for Social Cohesion, and is a founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative.

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Russell Roberts

Russell Roberts is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Scholar at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. His books include The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity (2008), The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (2002), and The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism (2006). He is associate editor of the online Library of Economics and Liberty (www.econlib.org) and appears frequently on National Public Radio.

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Jacob J. Schacter

Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University. He is the co-author of A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (with Jeffrey Gurock, 1996) and the editor of Jewish Tradition and the Nontraditional Jew (1992) and Judaism’s Encounter with other Cultures: Rejection or Integration? (1997). He has published numerous articles and reviews in Hebrew and English, and is the founding editor of the Torah u-Madda Journal. His new Hebrew edition of the autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden is forthcoming from Mosad Bialik in Jerusalem.

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Diana Schaub

Diana Schaub is a professor of political science at Loyola University in Maryland and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society. She is the author of Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1995), along with a number of book chapters and articles in the fields of political philosophy and American political thought. She is also co-editor (with Amy and Leon Kass) of What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (2011).

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Meir Y. Soloveichik

Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik is Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and Associate Rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York.  He has lectured in the United States, Europe, and Israel on topics relating to Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations, and has published essays on these subjects in Commentary, First Things, Azure, Tradition, and the Torah U-Madda Journal.

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Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens is the foreign-affairs columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where his “Global View” column appears every Tuesday. He also serves as the paper’s deputy editorial-page editor. He previously worked for the Journal as an op-ed editor in New York and as an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels. In 2002-2004 he was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.

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Suzanne Last Stone

Suzanne Last Stone is University Professor, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at the Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Designated the chair of liberal studies at the future Shalem College in Israel, she is the co-editor of Diné Israel, a journal of Jewish law, and serves on the editorial board of the Jewish Quarterly Review. She writes and lectures widely on the intersection of Jewish thought, legal theory, and the humanities.

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Aryeh Tepper

Aryeh Tepper is a senior writer for Jewish Ideas Daily. His essays and articles have appeared in the Literary Review, Forward, Jerusalem Post, Akdamot, and Makor Rishon. He studied in various Jerusalem yeshivot and earned his doctorate at Hebrew University in the department of Jewish Thought, a subject he has taught at a number of institutions in Israel. His book, Theories of Progress in Leo Strauss’s Later Writings on Maimonides, is forthcoming from SUNY Press.

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Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer is professor emeritus of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and co-editor of the quarterly magazine Dissent. His many  books include Just and Unjust Wars (1977; fourth edition, 2006), Exodus and Revolution (1985), On Toleration (1997), Arguing about War (2004), and, most recently, In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible (2012). He is also the co-editor of The Jewish Political Tradition (Vol. I, 2000; Vol. II, 2003) and the editor of Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism (2006).

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Joseph Weiler

J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law, and Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is editor-in-chief of the European Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. His recent publications include Un’Europa Cristiana, The Constitution of Europe, and a novella, Der Fall Steinmann.

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Ruth Wisse

Ruth R. Wisse is Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and a former director of its Center for Jewish Studies. Her books on literary subjects include an edition of Jacob Glatstein’s two-volume fictional memoir, The Glatstein Chronicles  (2010), The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Literature and Culture (2003),  and A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988). She is also the author of two political studies, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992) and Jews and Power (2007). Her latest book, No Joke: Mocking Jewish Humor, a volume in the Tikvah-sponsored Library of Jewish Ideas, is forthcoming in spring 2013 from Princeton.

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Gordon Wood

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. Among his books are The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992),  The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004), Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (2006), The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (2008), and Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic (2009). He writes frequently in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic.

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