Contributors
Current Issue
Claire Sufrin
Editor of Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas.
Justus Baird
Senior Vice President at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Mara H. Benjamin
Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
Shlomo Brody
Executive Director of Ematai, an organization dedicated to helping Jews navigate their healthcare journey with Jewish wisdom. Author of A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates and Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality.
Meir Buzaglo
A lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a 2023 recipient of the President’s Medal. He was instrumental in the revival of the piyyut tradition and chairs Tikkun, an organization dedicated to developing and encouraging a Judaism attentive to challenges within Israeli society.
Hannah Kapnik Ashar
Founder of Rahmana, a women's prayer initiative cultivating feminine Jewish spiritual practice, and the Director of Faculty with the Bronfman Fellowship. She lives with her family in Denver, Colorado.
Ari Y. Kelman
The Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he directs the Berman Archive, a free and open repository of documents pertaining to American Jewish communal life.
Yehuda Kurtzer
President of the Shalom Hartman Institute and co-editor of The New Jewish Canon.
Joshua Ladon
Director of Education for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Daniel May
A Fellow of the Kogod Research Center.
Levi Morrow
A teacher, writer, and translator living in Jerusalem, where he is a PhD candidate in the Jewish Philosophy Department at the Hebrew University. He is a research fellow at both the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center and the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Naama Sadan
A scholar and teacher of environmental systems and Jewish spirituality. She lives with her family in Berkeley, California.
Erin Leib Smokler
Director of Spiritual Development and Publications Editor at Yeshivat Maharat, where she teaches Hasidism and Pastoral Torah. She is a National Jewish Book Award winner for her collection Torah in a Time of Plague: Historical and Contemporary Jewish Reflections (Ben Yehuda Press, 2021).
Elana Stein Hain
Rosh Beit Midrash and a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Gordon Tucker
Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement and Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center.
Dotan Arieli
Director of gender equality programs at HaMidrasha at Oranim.
Benjamin Balint
A writer living in Jerusalem, is the author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction. His next book is Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, and the Hijacking of History (2023).
Leora Batnitzky
Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
Lauren Berkun
Vice President of Rabbinic Initiatives at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Mijal Bitton
Scholar in Residence at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Rosh Kehilla of the Downtown Minyan in New York City.
David Bryfman
Chief Executive Officer of The Jewish Education Project.
Joshua Cahan
Compiled and edited the Yedid Nefesh Bencher and the Yedid Nefesh Haggadah.
Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue, Manhattan.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A founding editor of Ms. magazine, is a writer, activist, and the author of twelve books, most recently, Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy.
Zev Eleff
President of Gratz College in Melrose Park, PA.
Rachel Federman
Art historian, curator, and author of the exhibition catalogues, Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet (2019) and Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton (2022).
Dan Friedman
Contributing editor of Sources.
Samuel Fleischacker
LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Jewish-Muslim Initiative at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Dyonna Ginsburg
CEO of OLAM, a network of Jewish and Israeli organizations working in global service, international development, and humanitarian aid.
Micah Goodman
Research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute and the author of several books including Catch-67 (2018), and The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity (2020). Essay is adapted from his book The Attention Revolution (2022).
Michal Govrin
Israeli writer and professor at Tel Aviv University, she developed Yom HaShoah Hitkansut at the Shalom Hartman Institute and founded an inter-disciplinary research group on Holocaust memory at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Donniel Hartman
President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, author of Who Are The Jews—And Who Can We Become?, and host of “For Heaven’s Sake,” one of the most popular Jewish podcasts in North America.
Christine Hayes
Sterling Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University and senior fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She is the author of What’s Divine about Divine Law? and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law.
Michael A. Helfand
Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; Visiting Professor at Yale Law School; Senior Legal Advisor to the Teach Coalition; and a Senior Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Michael Holzman
Spiritual leader of Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation and creator of the Rebuilding Democracy Project. He was a 2020-2021 Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Dara
Horn
Author of five novels, and most recently the essay collection, People Love Dead Jews (W.W. Norton), which won the Natan Notable Book Award and National Jewish Book Award in 2021.
Meirav Jones
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University.
David Zvi Kalman
Scholar in Residence and Director of New Media at Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where he was also a member of the inaugural cohort of North American David Hartman Center Fellows.
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute and lecturer at Haifa University. Author of The Feminine Messiah (2021), and Diamonds and Ashes (Pardes Press 2022)
Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.
Adam Kirsch
A poet and literary critic. He is the author of The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the 20th Century (2020), among other books.
Beth Kissileff
Author of the novel Questioning Return (2016) and is co-editor of Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy (2020). Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, The New York Times, Tablet, and elsewhere.
Aviya Kushner
Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago and language columnist at the Forward. Author of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible, and Wolf Lamb Bomb.
Anne Lanski
Founding CEO of The iCenter and former CEO of Shorashim, a nationally-recognized Israel experience.
Geoffrey Levin
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University and author of Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978.
Mordechai Lightstone
Social media editor at Chabad.org and founding director of Tech Tribe, a community for young Jews in tech and digital media.
Vivian Liska
Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp and Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife (Indiana University Press).
James Loeffler
Senior fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute and professor of Jewish history at the University of Virginia, where he directs Jewish Studies. Author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2018).
Isaac Luria
Senior fellow at the Nexus Project which is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Hate at Bard College. He serves as the Director of Voice, Creativity, and Culture at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Mikhael Manekin
Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute and at the Harvard Divinity School. Author of End of Days: Ethics, Tradition and Power in Israel.
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Professor emeritus of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author of Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (2019) and Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities (2021).
Yehudah Mirsky
Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University and author of the 2021 book, Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904.
Leon A. Morris
President of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.
Rori Picker Neiss
Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis, Missouri.
Tomer Persico
Research Fellow of of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute.
Hila Ratzabi
Former editor-in-chief and poetry editor of the literary journal Storyscape, currently director of virtual content and programs at Ritualwell.org. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Apparatus of Visible Things (2009).
Hadas Ron Zariz
Spiritual leader of Yifat B’Ruach, an Israeli community in the Jezreel Valley, and a founding member and co-director of HaMidrasha at Oranim.
Michael M. Rosen
Attorney and writer in Israel and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Micha’el Rosenberg
Member of the faculty at Hadar.
Rebecca Sacks
A writer living in Los Angeles, she is the author of City of a Thousand Gates (HarperCollins, 2021).
Avi Sagi
Professor of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and a Senior Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Masua Sagiv
Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ben Schachter
Artist, illustrator, graphic novel writer, professor, and founder of the Digital Arts and Media program at Saint Vincent College.
Yoav Schaefer
Yoav Schaefer is a PhD candidate in Religion at Princeton University and a David Hartman Center Fellow at the Hartman Institute of North America.
Lilah Shapiro
Associate Professor of Instruction and Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.
Alex Sinclair
Chief Academic Officer of Educating for Impact and the author of Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism.
Nancy Sinkoff
Professor of Jewish studies and academic director of the Bildner Center for Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University. Her book, From Left to Right won the 2020 Natan Notable Book Award and National Jewish Book Award.
Leah Solomon
Chief Education Officer at Encounter.
Yael Splansky
Senior rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Canada.
Guy Stroumsa
The Martin Buber emeritus professor of comparative religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and emeritus professor of the study of the Abrahamic religions at Oxford University.
Yofi Tirosh
Vice dean and associate professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and a senior fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Julie Tonti
History educator and part of a husband-and-wife team working to bring the diary of Glückl bas Lieb to a broader audience by reimagining it as a graphic novel.
Mat Tonti
Artist and part of a husband-and-wife team working to bring the diary of Glückl bas Lieb to a broader audience by reimagining it as a graphic novel.
Zachary Truboff
A writer living in Jerusalem, he served as the rabbi of Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio. Author of the forthcoming book, Torah Goes Forth From Zion: Essays on the Thought of Rav Kook and Rav Shagar (2022).
Gil Troy
A Distinguished Scholar of North American history at McGill University. His latest book, co-authored with Natan Sharansky, is Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People.
Miriam Udel
Associate Professor of Yiddish at Emory University, and the author most recently of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature.
Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University and teaching faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Isaac Weiner
Associate professor of comparative studies and director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Ohio State University.
Katja Vehlow
A rabbi who previously taught Religious and Jewish studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She is currently training as a hospital chaplain at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Sarah Wolf
Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Sara Wolkenfeld
Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria, the online database and interface for Jewish texts, and a Rabbinic Fellow of the David Hartman Center.
Sivan Zakai
Sara S. Lee Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, director of the Children’s Learning About Israel Project, and co-director of Project ORLIE.
Wendy Zierler
Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at HUC-JIR in New York.
Mishael Zion
Founder of Kehillat Klausner in Jerusalem; founding director of the Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture. Rabbi and author of A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices together with his father, Noam Zion.