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SAPIR’s latest issue, the second on the theme of Aspiration, launches today with new and returning voices including Dara Horn, Joshua Foer, Eve Barlow, and Jeremy Dauber. Read it now!sapirjournal.org/issues/aspirat…

"Cash the damn check." Those were the words of Bret Stephens, @nytimes Opinion columnist and Editor-In-Chief of @SapirJournal. With uncertainty for Jews at home and abroad, Bret urges listeners to invest in the next generation. 📷: youtu.be/Mq4ZqiMZPkw

Tomorrow at 12:00 PM ET, join @Eve_Barlow alongside Bret Stephens for a conversation on her recent essay "Queers for Zion." Register now.sapirjournal-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Tomorrow I'm so excited to be speaking with the brilliant Bret Stephens on this topic for @SapirJournal following the publication of my essay earlier this month. If you'd like to attend please register: sapirjournal-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Listen to their conversation on the SAPIR Conversations podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

In the latest SAPIR Conversation, @YonatanAdiri joined Bret Stephens to discuss his recent SAPIR essay on “The Silicon Dome.” Watch it now. youtube.com/watch?v=iwGTxQ…

Jeremy Dauber, Atran Professor of Yiddish Literature at Columbia, carefully revisits Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi classic and limns its hidden Jewish influences, both biblical and modern.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Israel's best doctors, engineers, and researchers are leaving in record numbers, driven by soaring housing costs, political instability, and the exhaustion of prolonged war. Former Israeli Finance Ministry offical Yarom Ariav suggests a few remedies.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Tracing antizionism's ideological genealogy from Soviet propaganda to Patrick Wolfe's settler-colonial framework, @adam_louis52328 argues that it is a modern pseudoscience as corrosive to the academy as race science once was.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Has the Ashkenazi dream of social acceptance and integration in America curdled? “If the past American Jewish century was Ashkenazi, the next must be Sephardic,” contends @mijalbitton.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

In an inaugural address to Stanford's new Israel studies program, Bret Stephens dismantles the “not even wrong” claims that dominate campus discourse on Israel and makes the case for rigorous, honest scholarship as the antidote.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Tomorrow at 12 PM ET, join @YonatanAdiri and Bret Stephens on Zoom for conversation about Adiri's recent SAPIR article, "The Silicon Dome." Register now.sapirjournal-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Shuki Taylor warns that Judaism has become too convenient, replacing embodied practice with passive consumption. Convinced that “the tradition belongs most fully to those who take part in making it into being,” his remedy is to get our hands dirty again.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

With rising graduate unemployment, public-sector layoffs, and renewed interest in Jewish institutions, 2026 offers the Jewish communal world a perfect-storm recruiting opportunity. Longtime HR professional Rachel Kay outlines her plan to capitalize on it.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

In an interview for SAPIR's issue on Activism, Iranian dissident @mehdiy_fa shared lessons from decades of activism and his vision for what the fall of the regime might look like. Read his conversation with Bret Stephens from last spring.sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

In a sharply personal essay, @Eve_Barlow argues that the LGBTQ community's alliance with pro-Palestinian movements isn't a moral stance but a psychological one, rooted in a community that won the culture war but can't stop fighting from the margins.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

With Jewish men increasingly disengaged from communal life and boys leaving Hebrew school at alarming rates, communal leader Adam Teitelbaum argues that the bar mitzvah — currently treated as a finish line rather than a starting gun — needs a rethink.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Despite spending a higher percentage of its GDP on education than any other OECD country, Israel ranks near the bottom in math, science, and reading. Moshe Behar and Avital Ben Shlomo explain why, and what their new movement is doing about it.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Author Dara Horn argues that Holocaust education has backfired by teaching Americans only about dead Jews, leaving them defenseless against TikTok-fueled antisemitism. She proposes a radical fix.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Drawing on the example of Taiwan's semiconductor dominance, @YonatanAdiri and @shacharlotan argue that Israel is entering its third founding moment — and that survival in this era requires not just military strength but technological indispensability. sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

Israel is one of the only democracies on earth without a constitution — and legal scholar Yedidia Stern argues that this vacuum has made the country's government prone to crisis. Can it begin with a "thin constitution"?sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…