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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

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Letters

Since the launch of SAPIR, we have received a number of letters to the editor, and have decided to begin publishing a select few on this page in the order we receive and review them. Although we cannot publish every letter, please know we read and appreciate all that we receive. Letters may be submitted through the form on the Contact Us page.

March 26, 2026

MIT professors on the roots of Israeli scientific excellence

‘For a small country, scientific excellence depends on deep integration into the global research ecosystem.’

March 26, 2026

Mijal Bitton responds to letters about “The Future Is Sephardic”

‘What gives me hope is that all three respondents agree on the diagnosis: American Jewish life needs to reorient around family, peoplehood, and the kind of internal confidence that doesn’t collapse when the surrounding culture turns hostile.’

March 26, 2026

Erez Levin to Mijal Bitton: Is developing a “thicker skin” the right answer?

‘We don’t need thicker skin; we need a thicker infrastructure of moral clarity that refuses to normalize the unacceptable.’

March 26, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Kraus on an Ashkenazi-Sephardic synthesis

‘Jewish civilization rarely advances through replacement. It advances through synthesis.’

March 26, 2026

Against the Ashkenazi versus Sephardic binary in Mijal Bitton’s “The Future Is Sephardic”

‘This binary reinforces destructive intra-Jewish divisions at precisely the moment we need unity’

February 24, 2026

Jordan Chandler Hirsch responds to letters about “The Need for a Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund”

‘The greatest risk to Jewish flourishing today isn’t that we wield our power too boldly, but that we will fail to adapt while the world shifts beneath us.’

February 24, 2026

Rachel Schwartz & Steve Schrauder on “Poverty and Jewish Community”

February 24, 2026

Emily Weiner on Ilana M. Horwitz’s “Poverty and Jewish Community”

January 27, 2026

Greg Borofsky responds to Jordan C. Hirsch on a Jewish sovereign wealth fund

November 19, 2025

Against a Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund: Renewing America’s Covenantal Promise

‘As an American Jewish conservative committed to renewing the institutions that have long sustained Jewish flourishing in this country, I share much of his concern. But we part ways on the remedy.’

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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

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