And they saw the God of Israel: Under His feet there was the likeness of a pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity.
—Exodus 24:10
Sapir is a journal exploring the future of the American Jewish community and its intersection with cultural, social, and political issues. It is published by Maimonides Fund with Bret Stephens serving as Editor-in-Chief.
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I find myself recommending pieces in Sapir to friends almost daily. With a sense of urgency and literary flair, Sapir surfaces the issues that matter most to the Jewish people—and helps us shape the path ahead.
Maimonides Fund is opening an in-house institute to turn ideas generated by its quarterly SAPIR Journal into viable plans of action, tapping Chanan Weissman, a former two-time White House liaison to the American Jewish community, as its di...
With our new issue on Culture (Volume Eight, Winter 2023), we mark two full years of SAPIR. And with it, we are excited to unveil a newly redesigned website, with a fresh look and many more ways to explore all of our content. When...
In response to our Cancellation issue, we’ve been asked about organizations and resources related to promoting more constructive discourse inside and outside Jewish spaces. Below is a sampling of nonprofits doing such work. A More Pe...
Education is the central theme of the sixth issue of Sapir. What makes for a great Jewish education? Does meritocracy harm or help America -- and what does Judaism tell us about the real nature of merit? How do we cultivate the habits of a...
We affirm Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky’s strong statements [in Sapir Volume 4: Can a Year in Israel Transform Your Teen?] about the importance of a gap year experience and their vision of an expansion into a “universal gap year.” ...
We are pleased to announce the fourth issue of Sapir: A Journal of Jewish Conversations. Centered around the theme of aspiration, articles will be released beginning on January 24th via Jewish Insider. For this issue we asked ourselve...
You are the editor of Sapir, a new quarterly journal of Jewish ideas published by the Maimonides Fund. How’s that going, and what’s the theme of the next one? It’s now a permanent thing. We started with the idea of four issu...
We are pleased to announce the third issue of Sapir: A Journal of Jewish Conversations. Centered around the theme of continuity, articles will be released beginning on October 28th via Jewish Insider. Publisher Mark Charendoff introduc...
"Many of the Sapir authors offer different perspectives on the complexity and nuances of Jewish power, recognizing that power is deeply flawed and requires self-critique, while reminding us that possessing power and agency is essential to...
We are pleased to announce the second issue of Sapir: A Journal of Jewish Conversations. Centered around the theme of power, articles will be released beginning on July 26th via Jewish Insider. Publisher Mark Charendoff introduces the volu...
The powerful, incisive essays and the conversations they prompted can be seen as geared toward those in American Jewish leadership positions who are facing increasingly hostile anti-Jewish viewpoints from their mostly Jewish patrons and pa...
Dr. Einat Wilf's article "How Not to Think About the Conflict" has been published in Spanish. ...
Matti Friedman's article "Eight Tips for Reading About Israel" has been published in Spanish and Hebrew. ...
In this barrenness of ideas, there is nonetheless good news. One particular movement, incipient as it may be, gives me special hope: The re-emergence of Jewish journals of ideas. In the last few months, a number of journals have come out; ...
Maimonides Fund is pleased to announce the launch of Sapir: A Journal of Jewish Conversations. Sapir is a limited-run journal. It will include four issues exploring different themes, to be released quarterly over the course of the coming y...