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SAPIR’s latest issue, on the theme of Influence, launches today with exciting voices including Ben Judah, Naomi Schaefer Riley, Jenna Weissman Joselit, and many others. Read it now! sapirjournal.org/issues/infl…
Starting now, join @AshleyRindsberg and Bret Stephens in conversation as they discuss Rindsberg's recent essay "How AI is Being Weaponized Against Jews." sapirjournal-org.zoom.us/web…
Tickets are going fast for the next SAPIR Debate, on Monday, October 19, at 92NY. Former Israeli ambassador @DrMichaelOren and FDD executive director @JSchanzer take the stage, moderated by Bret Stephens. Buy your tickets now.92ny.org/event/would-israel-…
Today at 12:00 PM ET, join Bret Stephens alongside political scientist Eric P. Kaufmann as they unpack the surprising takeaways from Kaufmann’s recent SAPIR essay, which analyzed the impact of far-Right online personalities. Register now.sapirjournal-org.zoom.us/web…
Is Free Speech Endangering American Jews? On Monday, October 6, at the @weitzmanmuseum in Philadelphia, join law professor @COFinkelstein and former ACLU president Nadine Strossen for the next SAPIR Debate. Buy tickets now.theweitzman.org/events/sapir…
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The Outsider Advantage article by @laspindle of @SamueliFound is the best @SapirJournal piece. The Har(mountain) Initiative should explore how we're building thriving Jewish community/life all over the MOUNTAIN West! Innovate! @FayDTwersky @BridgespanGroup deseret.com/utah/2025/09/04/…
In the latest Jewish Masterpiece feature, historian Jenna Weissman Joselit ranges over Mordecai M. Kaplan’s enormously influential — and just plain enormous — magnum opus: "Judaism as a Civilization".sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
“Democracy can survive disagreement,” writes Toba Hellerstein. “It cannot survive the loss of pluralism.” How can we escape the combustible cycle of what she calls “moral mobilization,” in which clashing factions continuously escalate their battles?sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
Publisher and editor Adam Bellow contends that America's civilizational crisis has a literary source: “Books got us into this mess,” he declares, “and I believe that only books can get us out.”sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
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“Like a sniper trained to hit a single target, the American moral eye has been calibrated with extraordinary precision on one thing: racism. But a sniper’s focus is also his blind spot. Everything outside the crosshairs blurs into illegibility, including 2,000 years of the particular, shape-shifting hatred of Jews, left out of frame, out of focus, and therefore invisible. It is precisely within this blind spot that antizionism has flourished, succeeding in the democratic West more than it ever could in the totalitarian East. In America, antizionism lives a very different life than it did in the Soviet Union: a life of conviction rather than coercion.”
From my latest piece in @SapirJournal
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Can Parents Change a School? My latest article in the new issue of @SapirJournal sapirjournal.org/influence/2… @AEI @IWF
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I wrote about the failure of Anglo-Jewish politics I experienced in government for @SapirJournal and why the community needs to be leading a campaign, not against the government’s foreign policy, but for a non-sectarian Britain: sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
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Thank you, @SapirJournal, for inviting me to contribute. No matter how each of us votes, it is our right, our civic duty, to hold our leaders ceaselessly accountable to high ideals.
“The biblical figures Moses, Jeremiah, and Esther—called to rise against their wishes and above their personal interests—are among our greatest teachers of leadership,” writes @JonPolin20. Why do the virtues they exemplified seem to be in such short supply?sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
For Spindle, “philanthropy at its best and purest form is risk capital.” Through her role leading the upstart Har Initiative, she has helped convert the urgency of the post-October 7 moment into a flurry of big bets to combat antisemitism.sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
“The biblical figures Moses, Jeremiah, and Esther—called to rise against their wishes and above their personal interests—are among our greatest teachers of leadership,” writes @JonPolin20. Why do the virtues they exemplified seem to be in such short supply?sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
Why do university donors so often fail to exert influence on campus, even with multi-million dollar gifts? Former university president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and AEI affiliate Tao Tan trace the unique incentive structure that rules academia.sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
What is @NaomiSRiley's most important piece of advice for parents who wish to influence their children's schools? Ask what the school actually assigns to read.sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
Ahead of next month’s Israeli elections, sociologist Nissim Mizrachi explains what political analysts often misunderstand about a key voting bloc: the Mizrahi community, Jews descended from the Middle East and North Africa.sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
In SAPIR, @b_judah argues that Anglo Jewry has squandered its influence by taking on unwinnable foreign-policy battles instead of championing a cause where it has genuine credibility and leverage: the push for a nonsectarian Britain.sapirjournal.org/influence/2…
Why did much of the Soviet intelligentsia see through anti-Zionism instantly, while Western intellectuals fall for it left and right? @LekhtNaya offers a troubling explanation.sapirjournal.org/influence/2…