Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern

Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern serves as the associate provost for strategic initiatives as well as the deputy director and chief strategy officer of the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. In addition to his doctorate in education, Rabbi Halpern has master’s degrees in both Bible and Psychology in Education, and an MBA in Nonprofit Management. 

Rabbi Halpern has lectured to diverse audiences across the globe from the White House and the Senate to Europe and Western Australia, is on the Speakers Bureau for the American Bible Society, and has taught in YU’s undergraduate colleges as well as its graduate school of education. He is the editor or author of twenty books, including Two Nations Under God: How (Biblical) Israel Inspires the United States – a finalist for the 2026 Rabbi Sacks Book Prize – and Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story, both of which received National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Among his other books are The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada, Esther in America and Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States. 

He has authored over two hundred articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Commentary, Newsweek, the American Bible Society, Law and Liberty, Tablet, Jewish Review of Books, Tradition, First Things, The Washington Free Beacon, Sapir, City Journal, ARC, the Jewish Journal, JTA, and the Jerusalem Postand was a finalist for a Rockower Award in 2025 for “Excellence in Writing about Jewish Thought and Life.”