Mark Charendoff

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/…

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/…

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/…

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/…

Leading off SAPIR's 20th issue, Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens argues that Jewish life after October 7 demands a fundamental shift from seeking ingratiation to establishing respect. sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

In an interview with @ChananWeissman, author-entrepreneur Joshua Foer and philanthropic advisor William Foster argue that Jewish philanthropy is too timid for the moment — favoring safe, incremental grants over bold, high-risk, long-horizon bets.sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/…

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…

OPINION | "The math is real. The inequity is real. But so is the possibility of change — change already happening on IDF bases, in new brigades and in the quiet courage of young men who want a seat at the table of shared responsibility." by @charendoff ejphil.com/4smmc

Want a sneak peak into the next issue of SAPIR, on Aspiration, launching tomorrow? Take a listen to the latest episode of SAPIR Conversations with Bret Stephens and @RabbiWolpe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sne…

I sat down with Jack Lew to discuss Israel, America and his service as an Orthodox Jew at the highest levels of government. ⁦@SapirJournal⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sap…

Live shot of Greta's flotilla steaming towards Iran to save the people

MIssissippi's largest synagogue destroyed in an arson attack on the Sabbath. The fact this isn't the biggest story of the morning, or the day so far, should tell you just how normalized anti-Semitic action is becoming. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/fir…

How should Jews balance giving to particularist and universalist causes? Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies has a strong commitment to both. “Everything we do,” says Stacy Schusterman in an interview, “stems from our Jewish values.”sapirjournal.org/money/2025/sho…

In the course of writing his magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides lost his brother (and business partner) to a fatal shipwreck. This catastrophic event, posits scholar Phillip I. Lieberman, may have played a major role in how he viewed tzedakah.sapirjournal.org/money/2025/jew…

“Pure joy in the air” is how an Israeli journalist describes the mood in Israel right now. But how could that be? If the Israelis want, above all, genocide and ethnic cleansing, then why would they celebrate a deal that ends the war with no ethnic cleansing and 97% of the Gazans alive? “Pure joy” is not what you feel when your deepest ambitions have just been thwarted. It’s almost as if the goal of the war really was to get the hostages back and oust Hamas. It’s almost as if Israelis are motivated by a deep, dark desire to…live in peace with their neighbors.

The idea that Jews are the chosen people has long been fodder for antisemites, but for the Jews, writes novelist Howard Jacobson, it has been nothing more than "a burden from which no serious Jew has a right to expect relief." sapirjournal.org/chosenness/202…

In “Views from the Iranian Diaspora,” the latest SAPIR Conversation, @RoyaTheWriter and @mehdiy_fa sat down with @ChananWeissman for a discussion on the future of Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Stream it now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vie…

Join us Friday at 1pm for a briefing on what's happening between Israel and Iran with former Commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command Lieutenant General Joseph Guastella & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Dana Stroul. bit.ly/3SXiKkE