Rabbi Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and founding Dean of the Tikvah Institute for High School Students at Yale University. 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 is a member of the Orthodox Forum Steering Committee and serves on the Editorial Committee of Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought. He lives in Teaneck, NJ, with his wife and family.
Harry Ballan is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and Founding Dean of both the Tikvah Online Academy and the Abraham Lincoln Teachers Fellowship. Dr. Ballan holds a BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University and a JD from Columbia Law School. He clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was for many years a Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a leading international law firm where he is currently Senior Counsel. He has taught at several leading universities on subjects ranging from law and intellectual history to neuroscience, and was Dean of Touro Law School before joining Tikvah.
Caroline Bryk works at the Tikvah Fund, where she is the Executive Director of the Jewish Parents Forum (JPF). JPF is a community of 6,000+ Jewish parents across the country who convene monthly via in-person and virtual events to learn from leading thinkers and educators about the practical challenges facing Jewish parents today; strengthen their own Jewish and American identities; and work together as they navigate the moral hazards of this cultural moment. Previously, Caroline taught 3rd and 1st grades at Success Academy Harlem 5 and in the Chicago public school system. Caroline holds an MA in Social and Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a BA in Psychology from Columbia University. Caroline is also a proud alum of the Ramaz School in New York City.
With extensive experience as a senior U.S. diplomat, criminal prosecutor, military officer, and community leader, Elan Carr provides an influential voice on key policy matters affecting America and the world today. He serves as a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a teaching fellow at the University of Southern California, and a member of several for-profit and non-profit boards of directors.
In 2019, Mr. Carr was appointed United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. As the senior diplomatic representative of the United States and the chief advisor to the Secretary of State on the subject of anti-Semitism, he directed U.S. policy and programs aimed at combating it. While in office, he negotiated groundbreaking agreements with foreign governments; convened the first-ever U.S. Government-sponsored conference on combating online hate; drove new policies on anti-Zionism, anti-Israel discrimination, and campus anti-Semitism; broadened the global consensus on the definition of anti-Semitism; focused the attention of foreign and domestic law enforcement leaders on the importance of hate crimes prosecutions; launched philo-Semitism initiatives in three countries; and conducted an aggressive, global public diplomacy campaign by delivering more than 180 speeches throughout the world and conducting numerous press interviews. During his tenure, his office was given the rank of Ambassador.
Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Carr prosecuted violent felony crimes for more than a decade as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County. He prosecuted murders, attempted murders, and cases involving Southern California’s most notorious criminal street gangs. While assigned to a special victim unit, he focused on sexual assault, domestic violence, and child molestation crimes. A number of his cases garnered media attention. He was also one of LA County’s few specially-designated animal cruelty prosecutors.
Mr. Carr is an officer in the United States Army Reserve and received multiple awards for his two decades of military service. In 2003-04, he spent nearly a year on military deployment in Iraq, where he first helped to lead a joint anti-terrorism team in life-saving missions and then prosecuted terrorists. He also worked to establish an independent Iraqi judiciary and trained Iraqi judges on constitutional law and criminal defense.
As the son of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Mr. Carr speaks Hebrew and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic. While in Iraq, he met with its Jewish community and helped them to preserve communal property. He led the first Hanukkah ceremony and regular Jewish services in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
In 2014, Mr. Carr was the Republican nominee for Congress in California’s 33rd Congressional District. He finished first out of 18 candidates in a multi-party, top-two primary, and in the general election, he out-performed GOP registration in his district by 18 points. He received the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Gun” status—its highest rating—and was endorsed by the House leadership, the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs, and the previous two Republican nominees for President of the United States.
Mr. Carr served as the 71st international president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a voting member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and a member of the National Council of AIPAC.
Mr. Carr is married to Dr. Dahlia T. Carr, a rheumatologist in private practice, and they have three children, Hannah, Rachelle, and Samuel.
Stephanie Cohen is a writing and literature teacher for elementary- and middle-school students at Westchester Day School in New York. She is also the school's librarian. She has been a writer and editor for over two decades. Her love of books and writing—and her kids' ravenous appetite for great books—led her to create the Lions of Literature blog. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and international newswires including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe Magazine, the New York Post, the Christian Science Monitor, U.S. News & World Report Magazine, Bloomberg BNA, Bloomberg Law, Mosaic, CBS MarketWatch, and others. She has also taught journalism and media ethics at the college level.
Anne Continetti is currently a faculty member at St. Albans's School of Public Service, a summer program for rising seniors in high school. Previously, she was a history teacher at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. and the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia. She worked as a curriculum consultant designing common-core-aligned lesson plans to accompany the What So Proudly We Hail curriculum, and her lesson plan for Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was featured on www.sharemylesson.com. Mrs. Continetti graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in History and received her Master's in Education from The George Washington University. Prior to teaching, Mrs. Continetti worked as an advance staffer on a presidential campaign and was a political analyst at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). She is a member of the Board and active in the PTO at her children’s school, Gesher Jewish Day School. Mrs. Continetti lives in McLean, Virginia, with her husband, Matt, and two children, Leo (7) and Charlotte (5).
Tal Fortgang is a student at New York University Law School and a member of the inaugural class of Tikvah Legal Fellows. Over the past academic year, Tal taught for Tikvah in the Truman Scholars Program and led a Tikvah Online Academy high school course on Jews and conservatism. Before law school, Tal was a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, where he focused on poverty, welfare, economic mobility, constitutionalism, and intellectual history. His writing on the Supreme Court, capitalism, populism, and American political history has appeared in Commentary, Law & Liberty, National Review Online, and other publications. Tal graduated from Princeton University with a degree cum laude in Politics and a Certificate in Judaic Studies, writing his thesis on the history and tenets of American conservative populism. In his spare time, he enjoys teaching Jews of all ages how to read the Torah properly and lamenting his lot as a New York sports fan.
Jake Greenspan recently graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago where he studied Fundamentals and served as a Student Marshal. At Chicago, Jake taught Humanities in South Side schools through the Civic Knowledge Project and pre-college Philosophy through the Collegiate Scholars program. He recently joined the Tikvah Fund as a full-time Teaching Fellow. Next year Jake plans to continue this work abroad as a Fulbright fellow at Athens College in Greece, and afterwards hopes to pursue graduate work in the UK.
Daniel Gutkind graduated with honors from the University of Chicago, where he studied Economics and Fundamentals: Issues and Texts. He received the Jamie Redfield Award for Excellence in Fundamentals, awarded to the student who has earned the highest honors scholastically in the Fundamentals program. Daniel has taught and co-taught courses for the Tikvah Online Academy on Zionist intellectual history, money and morality, and the American economy. He has also led Tikvah reading groups at the University of Chicago and Oxford.
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern is senior advisor to the provost and senior program officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. He has edited or co-edited 17 books, including most recently, Esther in America, Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States,and Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth. He has taught at Yeshiva University, synagogues, Hillels, and adult educational settings across the US, Europe, and Israel, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Tablet magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books.
Audi Hecht directs and teaches the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program for the Tikvah Fund at the Frisch School. Previously she served as Dean of Academics at Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck, NJ, and as Chairperson of the History department at Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) in NYC, where she taught courses in history and political science and played a critical role in professional development, academic innovation, curriculum design, and in directing civics and experiential education initiatives. Prior to her time at Central, Audi Hecht was an adjunct instructor of political science at the College of New Rochelle. She holds both a BA and MA in Political Science from Brooklyn College. She is a doctoral candidate at the Azrieli School of Education, researching the impact of school leadership on institutional health and culture.
Norma Johnson has been teaching a two-year American Studies course at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland for over twenty years. She has also taught elective courses in Government, Street Law, Contemporary Issues, and Holocaust and Human Behavior. Norma is a professional development junkie and is grateful to have been selected to participate in extraordinary learning opportunities that have enriched her classroom. Some of her recent favorites include studying the “Age of Lincoln” in Oxford, England and “9-11 and American Memory” in New York through the Gilder Lehrman Institute, examining the ”Holocaust and Jim Crow” in Jackson, Mississippi with the TOLI Institute, traveling through Germany as a Transatlantic Outreach Program (TOP) fellow with the Goethe-Insitut USA, and exploring landmark federal cases at the Federal Judicial Center’s Summer Institute. Norma is currently working with Facing History on the completion of a grant-funded learning initiative on Holocaust memory and serving on the Teacher Advisory Board of the National Constitution Center. When she has free time, Norma loves to return to her familial roots in Nebraska and Minnesota or travel anywhere the road (or sky) will take her.
Kennedy Lee is a Public Interest Fellow. Previously, Kennedy directed the campus outreach program and was a research associate at the Institute on Religion and Democracy. She holds a BA in Russian Language & Civilization and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she formerly studied in St. Petersburg, Russia and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Kennedy has participated in various Tikvah Fund programs and focused her summer fellowship research on increasing ties between Israel and Central and Eastern European countries. Her writings can be seen in outlets such as Deseret, Providence, and New Eastern Europe. Kennedy is a native of Fennimore, Wisconsin.
Ariel Horn Levenson is the Middle School principal at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy (JKHA) in Livingston, New Jersey, where she also teaches American history. In her ten years at JKHA, she pioneered the school's Mentoring Program, built the middle school advisory program, and spearheaded the school's NJAIS Accreditation Self-Study committee. Prior to her tenure at JKHA, she was the Middle School English Chair at The Dalton School in New York City. In addition to her love of teaching, Ariel is also a writer who published her first novel with HarperCollins in 2004 and her first children's book with Macmillan in 2020. As a teacher, she strives to push herself outside her comfort zone, re-inventing curriculum and collaborating with her colleagues to elevate the level of academic discourse. Ariel earned her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. from NYU. She lives in Livingston, NJ with her husband and three children.
Dr. Hugh Liebert is an associate professor of American politics in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where he teaches courses in political philosophy, American politics, and civil-military relations. He also serves as director of West Point’s Graduate Scholarship Program. Liebert is the author or editor of six books, including Plutarch’s Politics: Between City and Empire. He holds a PhD and MA from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and a BA from Harvard University.
Tobey Linhart received a BA in English Literature at New York University and is currently pursuing an MA in Humanities with a concentration in Classical Education at the University of Dallas. Previously, she taught History of Israel at the Maimonides School. Tobey has been involved with the Tikvah Fund since high school, first as a student and after graduating college, as the Associate Director of University Programs. Tobey lives with her husband and daughters in Riverdale, NY.
Chaya Sara Oppenheim currently serves as editor of The Shekel, the academic journal of the American Israel Numismatic Association. She holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University, where she studied English and history. At Barnard, she was the chief article editor of the literary journal Meliora and was the recipient of the William Haller Prize for the study of English literature, the Howard M. Teichmann Writing Prize, and the German Achievement Award. Chaya Sara has experience teaching English and Language Arts to 7th and 8th graders, creative writing at Writopia Lab, and has taught for Tikvah Online Academy. Her writing has appeared in Tablet, HaMizrachi, Mishpacha, and Tradition, among other outlets.
Sarah Rindner taught English Literature at Lander College for Women prior to making aliyah with her family in 2019. She writes frequently on Jewish and literary topics and is a regular contributor to Mosaic Magazine and the Jewish Review of Books. She has degrees in English Literature from Stern College and Columbia University and studied for a year at Midreshet Lindenbaum.
Dr. Daniel Rose is a British-born educator with 30 years of experience in informal and formal Jewish education. He has worked with youth movement programs in the UK and Israel, taught in Jewish Day Schools in the UK and the US, had administrative and teaching roles on global remote learning programs, and consulted for Jewish Day schools in the UK, US, Australia, and South Africa. He has many years experience of curriculum and resource development, including as Director of Educational Projects for Koren Publishers, where he was series editor and developer of the Koren Magerman Educational Siddurim series, which are used in schools and communities around the world. He is currently Director of Education at the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust, where he is responsible for developing educational content and programming to further the legacy of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt"l. Daniel lives in Modi’in, Israel, with his wife and five children.
Alan Rubenstein was educated in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and also at Georgetown University. He was a senior consultant for the President’s Council on Bioethics and currently serves as Hanson Scholar of Ethics at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. At Carleton, he teaches ethical thought through close reading of great literature of the West—in particular, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. He is currently Director of University Programs for the Tikvah Fund. His published essays have focused on the philosopher Hans Jonas, the Hebrew Bible, and Judaism in middle America. He is married and a father of three children.
Charles T. Rubin teaches political philosophy at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Recent publications focus on converging technologies, and those who believe they should be used to redesign humanity, a topic he discusses in Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress (Encounter/New Atlantis Books, 2014). Dr. Rubin is also author of The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism (1994) and editor of Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue and American Liberal Democracy (2000). In 2017-18 he was a visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, working on a book exploring what classic stories about human-created monsters tell us about the coming age of biotechnology. Other works in the field of literature and politics include studies of Henry Adams, Flannery O’Connor (with his wife Leslie G. Rubin), H.G. Wells, and contemporary author Neal Stephenson.
Maxwell Rotbart, a passionate advocate for Jewish and Israel education and an inaugural member of The Tikvah Fund’s Abraham Lincoln Teachers Fellowship, has taught middle and high school social studies at Denver Academy of Torah since 2014. He has also taught adult Jewish history classes and is the education director at the Golda Meir House Museum. Mr. Rotbart created and ran two national programs, teaching Jewish history and the Israeli economy to Jewish pre-teens and teenagers. He is the author of “The State of Israel: Prime Ministers” (available on Amazon), which serves as an introduction for middle school students to Israeli history. While completing his Master’s degree in history at the University of Nebraska, he is working on two additional books — one pertaining to Jewish history and the other to Jewish education.
Veteran educator Tzipora Ross is currently the Judaic Studies Coordinator at the Ramaz Middle School, where she has taught for over 25 years. Additionally, she teaches a modern Jewish history course that she designed, along with honors Gemara. Tzipora has been a Hartman Fellow, a graduate of the Yad Vashem Summer Institute, a member of the Rising Leaders Cohort of Prizmah, and a mentor for both the Stern College Legacy Program and the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah New Teacher Program. She also produces a weekly Parsha Aleph Bet series for schools that are used at Shabbat tables around the country. Tzipora graduated cum laude from Barnard College with a degree in European history and completed a Master's Degree in Jewish history. Tzipora lives in Bergenfield, NJ with her husband and fellow Tikvah educator, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Ross, and their five children.
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Ross is the Middle School Assistant Principal at Yavneh Academy in Paramus, NJ. He has taught classes in gemara, mishna, chumash, halacha, and tefilla, and has been a driving force in helping to expand the use of alternative forms of student assessment, as well as the integration of technology into the classroom. He has taught Jewish History at Touro University's Graduate School for Education, and has trained and mentored teachers in a variety of pedagogical approaches. Rabbi Dr. Ross holds a doctorate degree from Yeshiva University's Azrieli Graduate School, semicha from Yeshiva University, a master’s degree in Judaic Studies from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin J. Samuels has served as rabbi of Cong. Shaarei Tefillah of Newton Centre since 1995 and teaches widely in the Boston Jewish community. He earned his semikhah (rabbinical ordination) from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, holds a PhD in Science, Philosophy, and Religion from Boston University, and received an MA in Biblical Studies and Medieval Jewish History, and a BA in English Literature from Yeshiva University.
Jonathan Schatz-Mizrahi is originally from New City, New York and completed his master’s degree in Political Thought at the University of Cambridge this past June. Previously, Jonathan taught AP World History at Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts where he developed a passion for teaching and an interest in the theory of education. Jonathan graduated from Columbia University in May 2019 with a degree in history and is spending this year studying Jewish thought in Jerusalem as he applies for PhD programs in Religion.
Rabbi Dr. 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) andJudaism’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. From 2000-2005 he served as Dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston. From 1981-2000, he served as the rabbi of the Jewish Center in New York City, where he grew the congregation from 180 families to over 600.
Rick Schindelheim has taught Jewish History, Tanakh, and Talmud at the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland since 2013. He currently serves as the chair of the Talmud Department and is the Upper School Judaic Studies Coordinator. His informal educational experience includes over a decade of work at Camp Stone in a variety of capacities. After studying in Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel for three years, Rick earned his B.A. in psychology from Yeshiva College and studied at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (REITS). He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and earned his Masters and Education Specialist degrees at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
Kevin M. Schultz is currently Chair of the Department of History at University of Illinois Chicago. An award-winning historian, Prof. Schultz has published widely and excelled as a public intellectual, academic, and teacher. His most recent book, the winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award from the Norman Mailer Society, examines the fascinatingly intertwined lives of right-wing firebrand William F. Buckley, Jr. and left-wing radical Norman Mailer as a way to better understand the 1960s. Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped The 1960s (W.W. Norton & Co.) came out in June 2015, was an Amazon.com #1 New Release in US History, and was reviewed widely. A distinguished teacher, Prof. Schultz has won several major awards for his teaching, including the Teaching Recognition Award from the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at UIC twice and the 2012-13 Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellent Teaching, an award selected by UIC History faculty, graduate students, and majors. Prof. Schultz is also the author of HIST, a popular college-level textbook of American history, now in its fifth edition (Cengage Learning, 5th ed. 2018).
Yishai Schwartz is an attorney in Washington DC. Previously, he was a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, and a law clerk to Judge Jose Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Kenneth Karas of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He has also been an associate editor at Lawfare and reporter-researcher for The New Republic. His writing on national security, law, and culture has also appeared in National Affairs, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, Town and Country, and Comment as well as several Jewish publications. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
Rabbi Yigal Sklarin is the associate principal at the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School. Before joining the Yeshivah of Flatbush, Rabbi Sklarin had a 13-year tenure at the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz where he held multiple positions, most recently senior grade dean and director of interdisciplinary programs. Rabbi Sklarin is a graduate of Yeshiva University where he graduated Yeshiva College with honors, received semikhah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, participated in the Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon, and earned a Master’s in Modern Jewish History from the Bernard Revel School of Jewish Studies. Rabbi Sklarin has interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Israel Museum. Rabbi Sklarin lives with his wife Tami and their children in Teaneck, NJ.
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured throughout the United States, in Europe, and in Israel to both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations. His essays on these subjects have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, First Things, Azure, Tradition, and the Torah U-Madda Journal. In August 2012, he gave the invocation at the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. He is the son of Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveichik, grandson of the late Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, and the great-nephew of the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Nina Taub is Director of Education at Civic Spirit. Nina’s role includes mentoring teachers to inculcate civics education in their curriculum and school community. She also leads professional development workshops that focus on deepening civic knowledge and skills.
Prior to working at Civic Spirit, Nina spent fourteen years teaching in high school classrooms. She designed and taught courses focusing on world history, Jewish history, current events and an elective on African American history. Nina’s teaching passions include exploring the interplay between Jewish experiences and the cultures in which Jews live. She is also passionate about guiding students to develop historical empathy through discussion. Nina previously taught at SAR High School in Riverdale, NY and The Frisch School in Paramus, NJ. Nina currently teaches a course at Touro University’s Masters in Jewish Childhood Education & Special Education on the methodology of teaching Jewish history. She graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University’s Honors Program with a B.A. in History and has a M.S. Ed in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education.
Aaron Tugendhaft studied history and philosophy at the University of Chicago, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Sorbonne. Since receiving his doctorate in ancient Near Eastern Studies from New York University in 2012, he has taught broadly within the humanities on four continents and has become a staunch advocate of traditional liberal education as a corrective to premature professionalization, academic hyperspecialization, and political polarization. His most recent book, The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet (University of Chicago Press, 2020), is a philosophical meditation on an Islamic State video of iconoclasm that explores the political power of images and the significance of their destruction. This fall, he will join the history department and become director of interdisciplinary programs at the Ramaz School in New York City.
Ms. Sarah Wapner is a program manager at a private foundation in New York City. She previously served as the impact and recruitment officer at the Yeshiva University Straus Center, and taught humanities at Bnei Akiva Schools of Toronto. Sarah received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, where she majored in political science and Jewish studies. Sarah is an alumna of the Krauthammer Fellowship (2021-2022) as well as fellowships at the Tikvah Fund, the Hertog Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute. Sarah has served as a faculty member on several of Tikvah’s educational programs, including Tikvah Online Academy, the Truman Scholars Program, the Millstone Scholars Program, and the Tikvah Scholars Program.
Raina Weinstein is a staff reporter for the New York Sun. She previously served as an Assistant Director of Tikvah Online Academy. Originally from Washington, DC, Raina studied at the University of Chicago as a Stamps Scholar, and she graduated with a degree in Fundamentals. Her studies have taken her to Jerusalem, Berlin, and Dushanbe (Tajikistan). She is an alumna of several Tikvah programs, including the Tikvah College Fellowship, and has taught for Tikvah Online Academy and the Truman Scholars Program.
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.
