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
In a powerful piece for the Washington Post, Mark Lasswell cited Yoni Heilman’s war diary published in Sapir. Read the full piece here, and revisit Heilman’s multi-part diary here.
Sapir was proud to see Michael Oren’s recent piece on what happens after the war highlighted in the New York Post and The Free Press. Israel war: The Day After the End Israelis “want to know how, apart from defeating Hamas” their nation “defines victory. What, they ask, does the day after look like,” notes Michael […]
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 director, the organization announced on Wednesday. According to Maimonides Fund President Mark Charendoff, the impetus for Sapir Institute […]
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 we launched Sapir, our intent was for it to be a limited run […]
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.
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 free mind in increasingly illiberal educational environments? Articles on these […]
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.” As we at Young Judaea celebrate our 70th year as one of the largest non-Orthodox gap year providers, we […]
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 ourselves, “What is a Jewish moonshot?” We wanted our moonshots to be audacious but also achievable, with a […]
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 issues on four big topics. We’ve done social justice, power, and continuity, and the theme of […]
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 introduces the volume by asking: Is “continuity” worth redeeming? The term seems unimportant, but the discussion it prompted in the […]