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Americans marked the birthday of the Sixteenth President of the United States yesterday, Abraham Lincoln. In honor of this, we share here a recent scholarly article by Matthew Holbreich of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought…

This evening’s event with Yuval Levin has been canceled due to inclement weather. Please click here to learn about how you can study the roots of Left and Right with Yuval Levin in this spring’s Advanced Institute on “Liberalism,…

A dilemma: What do you do when the categories in which you are accustomed to think already commit you to certain conclusions - conclusions  that, when stated explicitly, you are inclined to resist? Such a dilemma is at…

Last week on Shabbat, synagogues around the world turned the page from parshat Yitro (Exodus 18:1 – 20:23) to parshat Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1 – 24:18). The steady flow of narrative, beginning with The Beginning and moving through Noah,…

The United States has been a strong supporter of Israel. Is that likely to continue? How do changes over the last few years in the Middle East affect the US-Israel relationship? To what extent are different parts of…

Despite the predictions of many of Israel’s secular founders, the ultra-orthodox population of the Jewish state has only grown in size and influence. During his recent campaign, Yair Lapid, now Finance Minister in the coalition government, famously declared…

On January 8, Tikvah Fund executive director Eric Cohen sat down to talk with George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Mr.

Dr. Yuval Levin, Editor of National Affairs and a former domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush,  has an idea about the fundamental commitments that lay beneath the policy issues that divide liberals and…

In 2012-2013, Tova Ganzel took sabbatical from her role as deputy director of the Midrasha for Women at Bar Ilan University to serve as a Tikvah Fellow and to join her husband doing his own fellowship at…

Jonathan Yudelman is 2013-2014 Tikvah Fellow. His article, “The Christian Theologian of Zion,” will appear in the February issue of First Things. The article explores the life and thought of Marcel Dubois, an important…

According to the much discussed Pew Survey “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” 42% of respondents name “having a good sense of humor” as essential to a Jewish identity. Even more interesting: this answer, more than any other choice…

Christmas was this week and God’s love is in the air. But do Christian sources and Jewish ones think of the love of God in overlapping or opposing ways? Renowned Harvard bible scholar and Tikvah faculty regular Jon…