The American Founders drew their understanding of law, liberty, and political covenant from the Hebrew Bible. To understand America without this inheritance is to miss a central element of America’s founding DNA. As the country celebrates 250 years of independence, we believe that national renewal depends on rediscovering our foundational biblical roots.
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He is a senior fellow and contributor at Tikvah and the senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He is also director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.
Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured internationally to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to faith in America, the Hebraic roots of the American Founding, Jewish theology, Jewish-Christian relations, the miracle of modern Israel, wartime ethics, bioethics, and more. He writes a monthly column in Commentary magazine, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Mosaic, First Things, Azure, Tradition, the Jewish Review of Books, and many other outlets. Rabbi Soloveichik is a descendant of one of the Jewish world’s great rabbinic dynasties. He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and studied at its Beren Kollel Elyon. He has also studied at Yale Divinity School, and in 2010 received his doctorate in religion from Princeton University.
