Rabbi Mark Gottlieb

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.

Howard Slugh

Howard Slugh is a founder and General Counsel of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty. He is also an attorney in Washington, DC focusing on constitutional law. His writings have been published in National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, The Daily Wire, The Baltimore Sun, The Public Discourse, The American, American Thinker, and other media.

Dr. Moshe Krakowski

Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education at Yeshiva University

Dr. Moshe Krakowski is a professor at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education at Yeshiva University where he directs the doctoral program. Dr. Krakowski has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, a PhD in the Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, and prior to joining the faculty at Azrieli spent two years as a post-doctoral scholar in the psychology department at University of Chicago. Dr. Krakowski studies American Haredi education and culture, focusing on the relationship between communal worldview, identity, and education. He also works on curriculum, cognition, and inquiry learning in Jewish educational settings.

Elliot Kaufman

The Wall Street Journal

Elliot Kaufman is the Editor of The Wall Street Journal's letter page from start to finish. For nearly three years before that, he edited opinion articles for the Journal. In the past he's worked for the Stanford alumni magazine, National Review and the Stanford Men's Basketball Team. In addition to the WSJ, Stanford Mag and NR, his writing has appeared in Commentary, Modern Age and the Jewish Review of Books.

Tal Fortgang