Rick Richman is a resident scholar at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and NYU Law School and has written for Commentary, The Jewish Press, Mosaic, The New York Sun, PJ Media, The Tower Magazine, and his own blog, Jewish Current Issues, created in 2003. He is the author, most recently, of And None Shall Make Them Afraid: Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel (Encounter Books, 2023), and of Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler (Encounter Books, 2018). He also wrote the chapter on Louis Brandeis in What America Owes the Jews, What Jews Owe America (Mosaic Books, 2016) and appeared in the documentary film, “Body and Soul: The State of the Jewish Nation” (DocEmet Productions, 2014). He is a member of the Board of Directors of American Jewish University in Los Angeles and in 2016 received Sinai Temple’s Burning Bush Award for leadership and service to the Jewish community in America and Israel.