Head of the Argaman Institute and Dean of the Center for Israeli Liberty
Deputy Director General of the Argaman Institute
Programs & Alumni Coordinator
Publishing, Finance & Operations Coordinator
Director, Adam Smith Program
Director, Churchill Program
Director, Jerusalem Exodus Program
Coordinator of the Churchill Program
Coordinator of the Adam Smith Program and the Exodus Program, Tel Aviv
Coordinator of the Exodus Program, Jerusalem
Professor Emerita of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and former holder of the Martin Peretz Chair. Currently, Wisse is a Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. She has published numerous works of literary scholarship, including The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Literature and Culture (2003) and A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1998), and edited Jacob Glatstein’s fictional memoir The Glatstein Chronicles (2010). She is also the author of two works of political analysis: If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992) and Jews and Power (2007). Her most recent book, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013), was published as part of the Jewish Ideas Library of the Tikvah Fund by Princeton University Press.
Dr. Samuel Gregg is Director of Research at the Acton Institute. He writes and lectures extensively on political economy, economic history, ethics and finance, and the doctrine of natural law. Dr. Gregg holds a Master’s degree from the University of Melbourne and a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy.
He is the author of 13 books, two of which were finalists for Conservative Book of the Year, and many of his works have been translated into multiple languages. He was elected to the Royal Historical Society in 2001, the Mont Pelerin Society in 2004, the Philadelphia Society in 2008, and the Royal Society of Arts in 2017. Since 2019, Dr. Gregg has served as President of the Philadelphia Society.
A scholar of Jewish literature and culture in the modern era, Professor Weingrad teaches modern Jewish literature and Israeli literature, and lectures on the Jewish experience in America, among other topics. He is a regular contributor to National Book Review and Mosaic, and has published in a variety of literary and academic journals. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, and a Harry Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
Professor Emeritus of the Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Knowledge, and Political Sociology at the Sorbonne. Founder and head of the People’s University for Jewish Studies, and founder of the journals Pardes and Controversia. A leading scholar in Jewish political philosophy and theology, he established and headed the “Jewish World Watch” association in Paris. He has authored and edited around 40 books in the social sciences, sociology, and political philosophy. Works translated into Hebrew include The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah (2010), The Boundaries of Auschwitz (2016), and The Jewish State (2020).
Vice President of the Herzl Institute. A founding member of the Shalem Center and its journal Azure, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief. His book John Selden and the Western Political Tradition was published by Cambridge University Press. He is a member of Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE), the Council for Archaeology, and the steering committee for promoting academic cooperation between Israel and Italy. His articles have appeared in Azure, Yediot Aharonot, Haaretz, and Limes, an Italian journal of geopolitics.