SAPIR Conversations

The SAPIR Debates: Is the Administration's Campus Crackdown Good for America?

For many Jewish and Zionist students, faculty, and administrators, the tumultuous year following October 7 meant navigating campus life amid protests, encampments, lockdo

Censorship Won't Help the Jews with Yascha Mounk

Johns Hopkins political scientist Yascha Mounk joined Bret Stephens to discuss his new essay, “Censorship Won't Help the Jews,” in the (Fixing) America issue of SAPIR. R

The State of Jewish Books with Ruth Wisse and Adam Bellow

Literary scholar Ruth Wisse and publisher Adam Bellow join Rabbi David Wolpe for a lively discussion on American Jewish literature, 50 years on from the year Saul Bellow

Islam in America with Reihan Salam

Manhattan Institute president Reihan Salam joined Bret Stephens to discuss his new essay, “Islam in America,” in the (Fixing) America issue of SAPIR. Read Reihan’s essay

“The Jewish Case for Public Service” with Anne Neuberger

Anne Neuberger joined Bret Stephens to discuss her new essay, “The Jewish Case for Public Service,” in the (Fixing) America issue of SAPIR.Read Neuberger’s essay here: ht

Sneak Peek of the (Fixing) America Issue – with Bret Stephens and Rabbi David Wolpe

Tomorrow, June 10, SAPIR launches its latest issue, on (Fixing) America. An exciting set of contributors including political scientist Yascha Mounk, former deputy nationa

“The Future is Sephardic” with Mijal Bitton

Are we are venturing into the twilight of an American Jewish era?  In a recent SAPIR essay, Dr. Mijal Bitton makes the case that it’s time to reimagine Jewish flourishin

Boyz II Mensches with Adam Teitelbaum

Men are drifting, disconnected, and increasingly absent from communal life, argues longtime Jewish communal professional Adam Teitelbaum in his new essay, Boyz II Mensche

Queers for Zion with Eve Barlow

Hatred of Israel has become a symptom of what plagues LGBTQ politics today, argues Eve Barlow in her SAPIR essay, Queers for Zion. What happens when a liberation movement

What Makes the Exodus True with Joshua Berman

Should it matter whether Yetziat Mitzrayim — the exodus of Israelites from Egypt, the defining story of the Passover seder that Jews around the world have retold for cent

The SAPIR Debates: Is Fighting Antisemitism a Losing Battle?

The oldest hatred – an honorific given to anti-Jewish prejudice – never tires. If anything, it gathers force. According to many surveys, animus towards Jews is increasing

The Silicon Dome with Yonatan Adiri

In an age of geopolitical fragmentation, a nation’s strength is often defined by its technological indispensability. Israel’s success, argue Yonatan Adiri and Shachar Lot

Sneak Peak of the “Aspiration” Issue – with Bret Stephens and Rabbi David Wolpe

Tomorrow, we launch our second issue on Aspiration—devoted to audacious ideas for a thriving Jewish future. Four years ago, when we published our first issue, the world w

KIND Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky

When KIND Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky looks at a glass of water, he doesn’t see it as half empty or half full. He sees an opportunity to fill up the cup.  In this SAP

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew

Jack Lew was drawn to a mission of service well before becoming the 76th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. As a kid in Forest Hills, Queens, he stepped up as his high schoo

S19E3: “Poverty and Jewish Community” with Ilana Horwitz

Economic vulnerability affects 1 in 4 American Jews, but it doesn’t affect all of them equally, writes Tulane University sociologist Ilana Horwitz in her recent SAPIR art

S19E2: A Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund — Yes or No?

American Jewry has long thrived in a society built on institutions. But today, we live in an anti-establishment age, where subtlety fuels suspicion and open displays of p

The SAPIR Debates: Is There a Realistic Future for the Two-State Solution?

The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 30 years ago, in November 1995, marked a major turning point in the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinian

S19E1: Building Israel's Trillion-Dollar Economy with Michael Eisenberg

Of Israel’s many achievements since October 7, none perhaps was as unforeseen as the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange reaching an all-time high two years since the start of the wa

On Money with Bret Stephens and Rabbi David Wolpe

Why does the stereotype about Jews and money endure? Is Judaism a contractual or covenantal religion? Is Jewish life today too expensive? Should the cost of Jewish educat