Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives @YU Deputy Director @YUstrauscenter; writing in @wsj @newsweek @Tablet @JRBooks @firstthingsmag @JTA @JPOST; #repbx
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My upcoming 20th book is really my 1st.
After 19 edited volumes, thrilled to announce the 1st I’ve written in full: Two Nations Under God: How (Biblical) Israel Inspires the United States.
Blurbed by @ScottJenningsKY @JohnnieM @d3bach & CEO of @museumofBible. @EncounterBooks
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At a time when Jewish education is competing for attention in a world dominated by screens, sports, short-form videos and endless streams of content, these easily collectable cards offer a different kind of engagement. My latest in the @JewishJournal jewishjournal.com/judaism/39…
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The Straus Center is pleased to invite you to our upcoming "In the War Room" book event on November 15, featuring a conversation with @jeremybob1 and @ElliotKaufman6, moderated by @HaleyCohen19. Please register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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(2/4) Hayes wrote back: “Let [your son] be as brave and honorable as his father and he will be a credit to his parents and namesake.” This moving letter serves as a testament to the bond between a Jewish immigrant and a future president, a uniquely American inspiration.
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(1/4) In 1861, Joseph A. Joel enlisted in the Twenty-Third Ohio Infantry. He wrote to then-governor of Ohio Rutherford B. Hayes to thank him for transferring him from an antisemitic unit to a more tolerant one. He even named his first son Rutherford B. Hayes Joel.
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(1/4) In 1990, Egypt was developing a cable-car railway that would ferry crowds of tourists to the summit of Mount Sinai. Lance Morrow, the longtime Time Magazine reporter, would have none of it. As his wife recalled, “he wrote an essay in two hours that stopped [the plan] dead.”
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For @FreeBeacon, @StuHalpern reviews Paul C. Gutjahr's "Faith in Space," which traces how Americans from Benjamin Franklin to Mormon theologians and Scientologists have wondered about extraterrestrial life for centuries. Read here: freebeacon.com/culture/a-not…
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In the latest Weekend Beacon @Jesse_Leg reviews Spencer Cox's Off Ramp (not that we're getting off any time soon), plus @madeleinekearns on Meghan Cox Gurdon's Free Range Girl, @StuHalpern on Faith in Space, and Eddie Dean on the one and only Alice Cooper!
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Unpacking America’s obsession with extraterrestrials - A Not-So-Alien Idea - my latest for the @FreeBeacon freebeacon.com/culture/a-not…
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Why a recent Hollywood retelling of a biblical tale bellyflopped - my latest for @ReligPolitics
Whale Fail arcmag.org/whale-fail
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In my latest in the @JewishJournal I discuss how @robertakwall, the Raymond P. Niro Law Professor at DePaul University College of Law, argues for a Jewish center defined by enough common commitments to make communal life possible. jewishjournal.com/culture/ar…
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Thrilled with the terrific review of POLARIZED penned by @StuHalpern at @YUStrausCenter for the @JewishJournal this week. Quoting the blurb for my book by @dansenor was an especially lovely touch!! Deeply grateful! @DavidSuissaJJ
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For @ReligPolitics, Rabbi Dr. @StuHalpern reviews the new film "Whalefall," discussing how it ignores its obvious source material—the Book of Jonah—and what this means for contemporary biblical literacy. Read the full piece here: arcmag.org/whale-fail/
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I was expecting Israel to be a little America—mostly English-speaking, a land full of convenience.
What I found was distinctly Middle Eastern—the people are brash, speak with their hands, and often don't know a lick of English. There are stray cats everywhere, mopeds, and graffiti. The street signs are in Hebrew, English, and Arabic. There is a mosque on prime beachfront property in Tel Aviv.
There is every kind of citizen imaginable. I saw Ethiopian Jews serving in the IDF. While touring an ancient Jewish site, I ran into a group of Arab schoolchildren also there to learn. I met a Mizrahi cab driver whose parents fled Morocco in the 50s.
Douglas Murray famously made Americans irate when he flamed Dave Smith on an episode of Joe Rogan for having never traveled to Israel—but he’s right. Visiting Israel shows you just how wrong the west is about the Jewish state.
Just go there.
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The Straus Center Impact Office was proud to support Tzipora Einbinder (SCW '28) for her research internship at Hadassah Hospital and her Torah learning at Nishmat. Read more about her experience here: yu.edu/news/straus/investiga…
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(4/4) Lincoln’s letter shows how closely American leaders identified with the Hebrew Bible. In “Two Nations Under God: How (Biblical) Israel Inspires the United States,” Rabbi Dr. @StuHalpern explores this story and many more. Out 12/1 from @EncounterBooks encounterbooks.com/books/two…
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