Elliott Abrams is the chairman of the Tikvah Fund, as well as chairman of the Vandenberg Coalition and Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. He served as Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa in the first term of George W. Bush, and as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the second term. In the Trump administration he served in the State Department as Special Representative for Iran and for Venezuela. He is the author of Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, and Faith or Fear, and writes widely on U.S. foreign policy with special focus on the Middle East and the issues of democracy and human rights. His most recent book is Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring.

Shari Redstone is a media executive with wide-ranging experience in the entertainment industry and related ventures. This includes serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of Paramount Global as well as Chair, CEO, and President of National Amusements, a world leader in the motion picture exhibition industry. In addition, Ms. Redstone is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Advancit Capital, a venture firm investing in media, technology, and web3 startups.

Ms. Redstone serves on the Board of Trustees for the Paley Center for Media and is actively involved in charitable, civic and educational organizations focused on combating racism and antisemitism as well as improving equality in education.

Ms. Redstone earned a BS from Tufts University and a JD and a Masters in Tax Law from Boston University. She practiced law in the Boston area before joining National Amusements.

Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah, which he has led since 2007, and co-chairman of the Jewish Leadership Conference. He is the publisher of Mosaic and currently serves on the board of directors of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and National Affairs. He was the founding editor of The New Atlantis and the founding publisher of the Jewish Review of Books. Mr. Cohen has published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Mosaic, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, First Things, and other prominent publications. He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology (2008) and co-editor of The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (2002). He was previously managing editor of The Public Interest and served as a senior consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured throughout the United States, in Europe, and in Israel to both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations. His essays on these subjects have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, First Things, Azure, Tradition, and the Torah U-Madda Journal. In August 2012, he gave the invocation at the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. He is the son of Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveichik, grandson of the late Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, and the great-nephew of the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Kassy Dillon is an opinion journalist and political commentator for the Daily Wire who specializes in foreign policy. Prior to joining The Daily Wire, Kassy was the U.S. news editor for Jewish News Syndicate and a video journalist for Fox News Digital. She formerly was the director of digital engagement for Ambassador Nikki Haley’s Stand for America. While a college student, Kassy founded Lone Conservative, a college-student blog that also assists students in launching careers in media. She holds an MPP from the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, specializing in American politics and international relations.

Dr. Gabriel Scheinmann is the Executive Director of the Alexander Hamilton Society, an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit, membership organization dedicated to promoting constructive debate on basic principles and contemporary issues in foreign, economic, and national security policy. Before joining AHS, Dr. Scheinmann worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a research analyst and then served as the policy director at the Jewish Policy Center where he co-edited a journal of international affairs. He is a widely published author on U.S. national security and foreign policy, including in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He received his PhD and MA from Georgetown University and his BA from Harvard College.

Zoé Tara Zeigherman is the director and producer of “Zionism & Anti-Zionism: The History of Two Opposing Ideas.” This five-part series, featuring Dr. Einat Wilf, is based on Dr. Wilf’s Georgetown University seminar, in which Zoé Tara was a student. Zoé Tara developed the idea and concept for the series as a 2022 Tikvah Beren Fellow. Previously, she was an assistant to German-Jewish filmmaker Leo Khasin.

Josh Kraushaar is the editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider and the author of Axios’ weekly Sunday Sneak Peek newsletter, which focuses on the big-picture forces driving American politics. He also appears as a political analyst across television and radio networks with Fox News. He is a prolific commentator on issues impacting the American Jewish community.

Judge Robert J. Luck was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by President Donald Trump in 2019. Prior to serving on the federal bench, he was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 14, 2019. He previously served on the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami after his appointment there by Governor Rick Scott in March 2017.

Earlier, Judge Luck served on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida from September 2013 to March 2017. He presided in the Criminal, Civil, and Appellate Divisions. Judge Luck, in his years as a trial court judge, tried seventy jury trials, and heard dozens of appeals from the county court and municipal agencies. Judge Luck was appointed to the circuit court in 2013 and was elected by the voters of Miami-Dade County to retain his seat in 2016.

Prior to his service on the bench, Judge Luck was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. In his years as a federal prosecutor, he was assigned to the Appeals, Major Crimes, and Economic Crimes Sections of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Judge Luck tried nineteen jury trials before the federal district court and argued three appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In his final year in the Office, he was a Deputy Chief in the Major Crimes Section.

Earlier in his career, Judge Luck was a legislative correspondent for two United States Senators, a law clerk and staff attorney to Circuit Judge Edward E. Carnes on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and a part of the Greenberg Traurig firm’s appellate section. Judge Luck received his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law magna cum laude and was asked to join the Order of the Coif. Judge Luck also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Law Review. Judge Luck received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Florida with highest honors.

Will Inboden is the William Powers, Jr. executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and a distinguished scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He is also a National Intelligence Council associate and serves on the CIA’s Historical Advisory Panel and State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee.

Inboden previously served as senior director for strategic planning on the National Security Council, worked on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and served as a congressional staff member. His think-tank experience includes the American Enterprise Institute and running the London-based Legatum Institute. He is a Council on Foreign Relations life member and a contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine, and his commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Weekly Standard, USA Today, NPR, CNN and BBC. His classes, “Ethics & International Relations and Presidential Decision-Making in National Security,” have been selected by students in recent years as the “Best Class in the LBJ School.” He is currently writing a book on the Reagan administration’s national security policies, titled The Peacemaker: The Reagan Presidency from War to Peace.

Aaron MacLean is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Previously, he was senior foreign policy advisor and legislative director to Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Aaron served on active duty as a U.S. Marine for seven years, deploying to Afghanistan as an infantry officer in 2009–2010. Following his time in the operating forces, he was assigned to the faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the 2013 recipient of the Apgar Award for Excellence in Teaching. Aaron received a B.A. in philosophy and the history of math and science from St. John’s College, Annapolis, and an M.Phil. (Dist.) in medieval Arabic thought from the University of Oxford. He has been a Boren Scholar and a Marshall Scholar and lives in Virginia, where he was born.

Tamara Berens hails from the U.K. and recently graduated from King’s College, London, with a degree in War Studies. At university, Tamara was President of the Israel Society and founded a campaign to abolish Safe Spaces on campus. Alongside her studies, she worked part-time for CAMERA to develop student activity in support of Israel across the U.K. and Ireland. She has interned at think tanks in London and Washington, D.C., including the Institute for Economic Affairs, the Henry Jackson Society, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the American Conservative, the Jerusalem Post, the National Interest, National Review Online, Standpoint, and the Weekly Standard. Tamara is one of two inaugural Krauthammer Fellows at Mosaic magazine.

Sean Clifford is the chief strategy officer at Tikvah. He most recently served as an entrepreneur-in-residence with Learn Capital, an education-focused venture fund. Sean has spent much of the past eight years in startups. He was the founder and CEO of Canopy, a tech company that leveraged AI to protect children from harmful online content. He also served as the head of growth for Skills Fund, a fintech venture in the education sector. Prior to that, Sean spent eight years in Washington, DC as Vice President of Baron Public Affairs. While there, he advised leading tech companies, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 corporations operating at the intersection of politics, business, and culture. Sean earned his BA from Williams College, an MA in the Great Books from St. John’s College, and an MBA from Wharton.

Daniel Shapiro recently completed a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas on the United States Supreme Court and now serves as the Director of Tikvah’s Legal Fellowship. Previously, Daniel worked as an associate at Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, where he litigated a wide range of appellate, constitutional, election, administrative, and commercial matters. After graduating from the Antonin Scalia Law School, he clerked for Judge Neomi Rao on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Judge E. Grady Jolly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. While in law school, Daniel served as the Executive Editor of the Law Review, the President of the Federalist Society, the President of the Jewish Law Students Association, and as a research assistant for several professors and for the Center for the Study of the Administrative State. Daniel was also a member of the law school’s national moot court competition team and served as an intern at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, and the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He will return to Consovoy McCarthy this winter.

Jake Greenspan is CEO of Skolay, a startup which connects writers & readers for 1:1 conversations. He also leads an AI company called Cuneiform Labs and advises several education ventures, including UATX and the recently announced Emet Classical Academy. Jake was formerly the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Greece, a classics and humanities teacher in various Tikvah programs, and a researcher on the aims of liberal learning with support from Peter Thiel. Jake studied Fundamentals at the University of Chicago, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Student Marshal.

J.J. Kimche is a student, teacher, researcher, editor, ghostwriter, and translator, currently residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. J.J. is a PhD candidate in the field of modern religious philosophy at Harvard University, where he specialises in the intersection between Modern European philosophy and Post-Enlightenment Jewish thought. His academic essays and translations have been published in both academic and popular venues. J.J. received his undergraduate education at Shalem College, Jerusalem, where he double-majored in Western philosophy and Jewish thought. Prior to that, he spent two years learning in Yeshivat Har Etzion and completed his military service in the 101st Division of the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade. Born into a family of renowned British rabbis and educators, J.J. has been intensely involved in Jewish education for the past twelve years, teaching Jewish ideas to a wide array of audiences across three continents, and in multiple languages. In recent years he has taught Jewish thought at a prominent Yeshivah, Greek philosophy at a pre-army academy, and worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. J.J. currently serves as the Orthodox educator at MIT Hillel, where he teaches a wide range of Jewish texts.

Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies modern European history and specializes in the history of the Holocaust, war crimes trials, and twentieth century diplomacy. He is the author of Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America (1998); Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007); The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews (2013). He has also co-authored, with Richard Breitman, US Intelligence and the Nazis (2005) and Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence and the Cold War (2010). He has edited two volumes of international essays titled Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Perspectives (2014) and Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines (2018). He served a lead editor on To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947 (2014) and Envoy to the Promised Land: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1948-1951 (2017). Both McDonald volumes were published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Goda has published articles in various journals including the Journal of Modern History, The International History Review, The Journal of Contemporary History, and Antisemitism Studies, and his work has been the subject of stories by the The New York Times, the Associated Press, US News and World Report, and other major news outlets. Goda has served as a consultant to the US and German governments, as well as for various radio, television, and film documentaries in the US, Europe, and Israel.

Tal Fortgang is a law clerk on a federal court in Washington, DC. Since participating in a Tikvah high school fellowship over a decade ago he has remained active in Tikvah programming as a College Summer Honors (Beren) Fellow, a Krauthammer Fellow, a Legal Fellow, and an instructor for various Tikvah educational programs. Additionally, he has held fellowships at the Manhattan Institute, SAPIR, and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty. He writes frequently on a variety of topics for Commentary, Law & Liberty, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Tal earned an AB in Politics and certificate in Judaic Studies cum laude from Princeton University. He earned his JD from NYU Law, where he was Senior Notes Editor of the Journal of Law & Liberty, a Bradley Fellow, and research assistant for Professor Richard A. Epstein. After his clerkships he is slated to practice appellate and administrative law at a leading Philadelphia law firm.

Zach Kessel is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review, a current Tikvah Krauthammer Fellow, and a former Beren Summer Fellow. Since October 7, his work has consisted mainly of reporting on antisemitism on college campuses, first in the form of statements by student organizations excusing, identifying with, and even praising Hamas’s attack on Israel, and then on the rallies and associated activities where genocidal rhetoric can be seen on posters and heard in chants. He has appeared on national television and on podcasts to discuss his reporting and the state of higher education in the United States and has participated in panel discussions at universities and at the 2023 Jewish Leadership Conference. He has also maintained an account on National Review’s website of the myriad attacks against Jewish people in the West since October 7. Zach can be seen in the forthcoming January issue of National Review’s print edition on the origins of contemporary anti-Zionism within Soviet propaganda. In addition to National Review, his writings have appeared in publications including the Dispatch, the Washington Free Beacon, and the Washington Post.

Angélique Talmor is a student at the Harvard Kennedy School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is French-American-Israeli, and has prior experience as an analyst for the French Government, as well as in policy research and consulting. Angélique is interested in writing on the rise of left-wing antisemitism in the West, French Jewish affairs, as well as on Israeli Foreign Affairs. Angélique holds a BA summa cum laude from the University of Florida and an MA in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris. She is also an alumna of the Hudson Institute Political Studies Program.

Dr. Jonathan Silver is the senior director of Tikvah Ideas, where he is also the Warren R. Stern Senior Fellow of Jewish Civilization. The editor of Mosaic, he is also the host of the Tikvah Podcast on which he has hosted hundreds of writers, rabbis, educators, military officers, artists, and political figures, including members of Israel’s Knesset, the U.S. Senate, and the prime minister of Israel.