About Us

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

A quarterly journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future

Jacob J. Schacter

JACOB J. SCHACTER is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University.

History would suggest that rather than resist steel because it can be beaten into swords, we do better to embrace it and make plowshares instead