Recently retired from her position as Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, Professor Wisse is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. 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: Making Jewish Humor, a volume in the Tikvah-sponsored Library of Jewish Ideas, was recently published by Princeton University Press.

Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review.

Dr. Levin and scholars in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division study the foundations of self-government and the future of law, regulation, and constitutionalism. They also explore the state of American social, political, and civic life, while focusing on the preconditions necessary for family, community, and country to flourish.

Dr. Levin served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. He was also executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels.

In addition to being interviewed frequently on radio and television, Dr. Levin has published essays and articles in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Commentary. He is the author of several books on political theory and public policy, most recently “A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream” (Basic Books).
He holds an MA and PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Liel Lei­bovitz is a senior writer for Tablet and the author of sev­er­al books, includ­ing, most recently, A Bro­ken Hal­lelu­jah, a spir­i­tu­al biog­ra­phy of Leonard Cohen.

Alyza D. Lewin is a co-founder and partner in Lewin & Lewin, LLP where she specializes in litigation, mediation and government relations. She is also the President and General Counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a non-profit organization established to advance the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and promote justice for all. The Brandeis Center conducts research, education and advocacy to combat the resurgence of anti-Semitism on college and university campuses.

Ms. Lewin has represented numerous high-profile clients. Her work includes criminal defense, civil litigation, anti-discrimination, security clearance and Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) matters. In 2014, Lewin argued Zivotofsky v. Kerry (the “Jerusalem Passport” case) before the U.S. Supreme Court, a case involving the constitutionality of a law granting any American citizen born in Jerusalem the right to list “Israel” as the place of birth on his/her U.S. passport.

Michael Doran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute. He specializes in Middle East security issues and co-hosts the Counterbalance podcast. In the administration of President George W. Bush, he served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council as well as a senior advisor in the State Department and a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon. He was previously a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and held teaching positions at New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Central Florida. He is the author of several books—most recently, Ike’s Gamble— and has published extensively in Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, Commentary, Mosaic, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

Vance Serchuk is executive director of the KKR Global Institute. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Serchuk served for six years as the senior national security advisor to Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut). In this capacity, he worked on a broad range of international issues, including comprehensive sanctions legislation, the U.S. rebalance to the Asia-Pacific, and the U.S. response to the Arab Spring, traveling to over 60 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. From January to July 2013, he was a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow, based in Japan, and a regular columnist for the Washington Post. His writings have also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times. Mr. Serchuk is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, holds a JD from Yale Law School, and was a Fulbright scholar in the Russian Federation.

Jeremy England is an Associate Professor of Physics at MIT.  Born in Boston, Jeremy grew up in a small college town near the New Hampshire seacoast. After earning a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in biochemistry from Harvard in 2003, he began his graduate studies as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and subsequently completed his doctorate in physics while a Hertz Fellow at Stanford in 2009. Before coming to MIT, he spent two years as a lecturer and research fellow at Princeton University. Upon starting his lab at MIT in 2011, he was named one of Forbes's 30 Under 30 Rising Stars in Science. Since then, his research has focused on a branch of theoretical physics called nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, and seeks to define the thermodynamic conditions under which initially inanimate collections of matter will spontaneously organize into forms that recapitulate strikingly life-like behaviors.

Jeremy's mother was born in Poland shortly after WWII to parents whose families had been wiped out in the Shoah.  Growing up in a non-observant household with one Jewish parent, his relationship to Judaism was ambivalent, and largely cultural.  This changed dramatically after he studied in the UK, and resultantly had his first intense exposure to anti-Israel politics.  After visiting Israel for the first time in 2005 and beginning to learn Hebrew, he fell in love with am yisrael, eretz yisrael, and with torah as well.  Squaring his training and knowledge as a scientist with the choice to read the torah as a revelation of unrivaled authority has been a thrilling and immensely fruitful intellectual journey, and he enjoys few things more than sharing this perspective with other Jews.

Leora Batnitzky is Perelman Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University as well as the Director of Princeton's Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000), Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006), and How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Princeton). Her current project focuses on the conceptual and historical relations between modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (analytic and Continental). She received a B.A. in philosophy from Barnard College, Columbia University and a B.A. in biblical studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are in religion from Princeton University.

Harry Ballan is a managing director of Alliant‘s Global Mergers and Acquisitions Group and an adjunct professor at New York University Law School. He holds a B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Wilfred Feinberg in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, before spending almost 30 years practicing law at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Dr. Ballan served as dean of Touro Law School from 2016 to 2019 and was the founding dean of Tikvah Online Academy in 2020.

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb is chief education officer of Tikvah and founding dean of the Tikvah Scholars Program. Prior to joining Tikvah, Rabbi Gottlieb served as head of school at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA, and has taught at The Frisch School, Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Hebrew Theological College, Loyola University in Chicago, and the University of Chicago. He received his BA from Yeshiva College, rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, where his doctoral studies focused on the moral and political thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. Rabbi Gottlieb’s work has been featured twice in the Wall Street Journal and his writing has appeared in First Things, Public Discourse, SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, The University Bookman, Tradition Online, the Algemeiner, From Within the Tent: Essays on the Weekly Parsha from Rabbis and Professors of Yeshiva University, and, most recently, Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith. He is a trustee of the Hildebrand Project and serves on the Editorial Committee of Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought. He lives in Teaneck, NJ, with his wife and family.

David M. Schizer is Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law & Economics at Columbia Law School. He served as dean from 2004 to 2014. At 35, Schizer was the youngest dean in the Law School’s history, and the longest serving dean since 1971. During Schizer’s tenure as dean, he recruited 43 new faculty members and doubled the school’s annual fundraising.

While on a three-year leave from the Law School from 2017 to 2019, Schizer served as CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a century-old international humanitarian organization. He redesigned JDC’s planning process to allocate its $365 million annual budget more strategically, while also increasing JDC’s philanthropic support.

Schizer is one of the nation’s leading scholars on tax law and on the nonprofit sector. He is a founder and co-director of the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy, a founder and co-chair of the Center for Israeli Legal Studies, and a founder and co-chair of the Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center. Before joining the Law School faculty in 1998, Schizer was a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Schizer began his career in the tax department of Davis, Polk & Wardwell.

Jonathan S. Sack is a partner at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC, a law firm in New York, New York.  He represents individuals and companies in federal and state criminal, civil, and regulatory investigations and cases.  Before joining his law firm, Jonathan was a federal prosecutor for about 13 years in the Eastern District of New York, where he held a number of supervisory positions, including Chief of the Criminal Division.  Jonathan’s work has been recognized in a number of leading publications, including Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Jonathan is co-author of a legal treatise, Federal Corporate Sentencing: Compliance and Mitigation, Rev. Ed. (2017), and co-author of the “White Collar Crime” column in the New York Law Journal.  He is also a regular contributor to The Insider Blog on Forbes.com and an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where he teaches a course in white collar crime.  Jonathan received an A.B. degree summa cum laude from Harvard University and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School.

Zach Fasman is a mediator and arbitrator and an adjunct professor at NYU Law School, where he teaches labor and employment law.  He practiced in this field for nearly 50 years, retiring from Proskauer Rose in 2019 after a lengthy career at Paul Hastings LLP in both New York and Washington.  He has written and spoken extensively on labor and employment law matters, testified in Congress on many occasions on issues in his field, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the NYU Law School’s Center for Labor and Employment Law.  His legal experience includes scores of trials and numerous appellate arguments, including two successful arguments before the Supreme Court.  His contributions to the law have been recognized for many years in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America and Lawdragon.

Zach is a member of the Tikvah Fund Advisory Board, the advisory board of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Board of Directors of the Community Security Service (CSS), an organization providing security services to temples and at other Jewish events.  Zach  was a long-time member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the Claims Conference, and of the New York Regional Board of the ADL.  He is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School.  He and his wife Andrea Udoff live in New York City.

Russ Roberts is the President of Shalem College in Jerusalem and the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Roberts hosts the weekly podcast EconTalk—hour-long conversations with interesting thinkers. Past guests include Jill Lepore, Eric Topol, Martha Nussbaum, Milton Friedman, Thomas Piketty, Angela Duckworth, Sebastian Junger, Christopher Hitchens, Bill James, Emily Oster, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Stephen Kotkin, A.J. Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato, Alan Lightman, and Michael Lewis. Over 725 episodes are available at no charge at EconTalk.org, iTunes, and places where people like to listen to podcasts.

Ilan Wurman is an associate professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He writes on administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism, and his academic writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Texas Law Review among other journals. He is also the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020).

Jeremy Rozansky currently serves as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  He holds an A.B. and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.  Before law school, he worked as an editor at National Affairs and the Tikvah Fund.

Ari Hoffman is a columnist at The Forward, where he writes about politics and culture.

He is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University, and holds a doctorate in English Literature from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford. He has also studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Ein Prat. His dissertation, ‘This Year in Jerusalem: Israel in the Jewish American Literary Imagination,’ is under contract from SUNY Press. His popular newsletter is called ‘Better Thinking.’

Ari has contributed to a wide range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Observer, Newsweek, Tablet, Mosaic, and the Tel Aviv Review of Books. Ari has worked on Israeli-Palestinian issues at the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, served as Acting Assistant Dean of Students at Harvard University, been an Executive in Residence at LionTree LLC. He has previously been awarded Dorot, FASPE, and Dexter Fellowships, and hosted a podcast for the Tikvah Fund. This coming year he will clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

As the CEO of Canopy and a father of four young children, Sean aspires to build products that give families the good of the Internet without the bad. Sean founded Canopy in 2019 to help build a world of healthy tech users, starting by protecting children from pornography. He previously served as vice president of Baron Public Affairs, where he advised leading tech ventures, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies at the intersection of culture and policy.

Simon Gordon is now senior policy adviser at the Home Office (equivalent of the US departments of Homeland Security and Justice), where he serves in the Implementation Unit - a form of internal consultancy focused on delivery of policy priorities. After a stint as assistant editor of Jewish Ideas Daily and Mosaic, Simon returned to his native London to take up the post of policy adviser and speechwriter to Daniel Taub, Israel's then Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Simon then went on to perform a similar role for Douglas Carswell - a Member of Parliament and co-founder of Vote Leave - throughout and beyond the successful campaign to end the UK's membership of the European Union of which he was one of the principal architects. He is a graduate of both the University of Oxford (BA, Philosophy & Modern Languages, 2011) and King's College, London (MA, Political Economy, 2018).

Eliora Katz is a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Banking Committee, where she helps oversee the national security portfolio for Ranking Member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Previously, Eliora served as the Egypt Country Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Prior to government service, Eliora was a Bartley Fellow on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and later a research assistant in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. She studied philosophy and political science at the University of Chicago.

Peter Burns was the Special Assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the Department of State. He formerly served as Government Relations and Policy Director at In Defense of Christians, and also worked as the Policy Analyst for Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. He studied political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he was an active student advocate, founding the College Republican chapter and working as campus director for the Bruce Rauner Campaign for Governor. In 2015 he took a job with Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign and transferred to finish online at Thomas Edison State University. Peter is an alumnus of the Philos Leadership Institute and Fellow with the Public Interest Fellowship, as well as an opinion writer for the Washington Examiner and Providence Magazine.

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and culture, and feminism. Concurrently she is a columnist for Commentary magazine and one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She is also a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory position at the New Atlantis. Her previous positions include editor of In Character, managing editor of the Weekly Standard, and distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress.

Dr. Rosen is the author or coauthor of many books and book chapters. Her books include The Extinction of Experience (W. W. Norton, forthcoming); Acculturated: 23 Savvy Writers Find Hidden Virtue in Reality TV, Chick Lit, Video Games, and Other Pillars of Pop Culture (Templeton Press, 2011) with Naomi Schaefer Riley; My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood(PublicAffairs, 2005), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Washington Post; Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement(Oxford University Press, 2004); The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (AEI Press, 2001); and Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (AEI Press, 1999).

Professor George holds Princeton’s celebrated McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has also served on UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology, of which he continues to be a corresponding member. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis, and Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, he also received a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University.