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
Rebecca Kobrin
REBECCA KOBRIN is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University and the co-director of Columbia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and American Finance, 1873-1930 (Harvard University Press, 2026).