Alan Rubenstein is the executive director of the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program at the University of Florida and a senior director at Tikvah. He is also now serving as a lecturer at the University of Florida’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. Alan was educated in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and also at Georgetown University. Before his move into Jewish classical education, he served as a senior consultant for the President’s Council on Bioethics. For over a decade, he was the Hanson Scholar of Ethics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he taught ethical thought through the close reading of great literature of the West—in particular, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. His published essays have focused on the philosopher Hans Jonas, the Hebrew Bible, and Judaism in middle America.