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In his framing remarks at the Jewish Leadership Conference, Tikvah CEO Eric Cohen explores the meaning and importance of the Jewish Fight for America. Arguing that “America needs the Jews as much as the Jews need America,” he makes the case that those who attack the Jews ultimately oppose the West’s Hebraic roots, the American commitment to human excellence, and very ideas of national sovereignty and the free society. And when we Jews stand tall for ourselves, we also defend all that is best in America and do our part to preserve the American experiment for future generations.

Enduring through the ages of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Romans, and up to the present day, the Jews are history’s undying people. Somehow the family of Abraham and Sarah grew into a nation that has outlasted the mighty kingdoms and empires of every age. What have been the strategies of Jewish endurance throughout history? And what does the modern political condition of Jewry in both Israel and America mean for the Jewish fight for survival? In this stirring address, Professor Ruth Wisse—a Harvard professor emerita and 2021 Herzl Prize laureate—makes the case that Jews are done running, and that the time has come for a new and confident Jewish politics of responsibility.

Roughly 2,500 years ago, a Jewish member of the Persian royal court left his station to return to Jerusalem and lead his people in rebuilding what had once been their ancient capital. The story of Nehemiah offers a template for our own age. Many Americans—including growing numbers of American Jews—sense that we are living in a time of transition. One era of American history is coming to a close, and we must fight to preserve the way of life that our fathers made possible for us, even as we must also reform and establish new American institutions. In this moment of declining social trust and emboldened anti-Semitism, one of American conservatism’s leading thinkers looks to our biblical past in search of a path toward national and religious rejuvenation.

We all looked with horror at the scenes that recently came out of Amsterdam—in which a modern-day pogrom overtook the streets of one of Europe’s most cosmopolitan capitals. But the anti-Semitic outburst in the Netherlands did not arise out of nowhere. Melanie Phillips has spent years analyzing the situation of Europe’s Jews. Here, she offers her bracing conclusions about the situation facing the Jewish diaspora, and whether civilized Europe can be saved from the scourge of Jew-hatred.

What other war is Israel’s confrontation against Iran and its proxy forces most like? Is it like the Six-Day War of 1967, in which Israel confronted multiple coordinated Arab armies simultaneously? Is it like the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which took place fifty years nearly to the day before the Hamas attacks of October 7? Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and distinguished historian Michael Oren argues that the attitude and strategic ambition of Israel’s adversaries make Israel’s 1948 War of Independence the most apt comparison to the current conflict. Then, as now, Israel’s enemies aspire to more than border adjustments and land swaps: they desire the eradication of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel altogether. And that means that the ultimate aim of the current war is nothing less than the reaffirmation of Jewish independence.

In this learned and wide-ranging address, 2024 Herzl Prize laureate Dr. Ben Sasse discussed the four ongoing revolutions changing the face of society: in technology and economics, consciousness and attention, politics, and education. He offered his thoughts on why this post-October 7 moment presents us with an opportunity to return education to its grandest, humane, and soul-forming aspirations, and how doing so can help America build a healthier society for all of its citizens—Jews and non-Jews alike.

Events in the Middle East are unfolding at a rapid pace, with Israel’s multi-front war against its enemies changing the face of the region. As the Trump administration prepares to take the helm, it will confront a new and unprecedented array of challenges and opportunities. In conversation with Middle East expert and Tikvah Chairman Elliott Abrams, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley analyzes the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the state of the U.S.-Israel alliance, how best to confront the Iranian regime, and the causes of anti-Israel activism in America.

The American academy has long harbored hostile attitudes toward the Jewish state and the American experiment, and our schools and universities have recently become ground zero in the battle of ideas over Zionism and America’s longstanding support of Israel. In this lively conversation, author and Call Me Back podcast host Dan Senor speaks to higher education leader Dr. William Inboden, Jewish rights advocate and lawyer Kenneth L. Marcus, and Tikvah alumnus and leading Jewish student activist Shabbos Kestenbaum about the future of higher education and the intellectual, philanthropic, and political blueprint for returning America’s universities to their highest purposes.