American founding

Observation · November 20, 2025
The Christian-Jewish Alliance and Its Enemies
By Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
For Hashem, for country, and for Yale.
Observation · October 30, 2019
God’s American Israel
By Daniel L. Dreisbach
As two new books show, the influence of the Hebrew Bible (and of biblical models) on the founding generations of Americans was as vast as the new country they were trying to create.
Observation · December 12, 2017
An Eye-Opening Introduction to the Jewish Influence on America’s Founding
By Tevi Troy
A new online course illuminates how Jewish teachings, combined with the age's best Enlightenment sensibilities, helped to create and to guide the young republic.
Observation · April 6, 2017
The Illusory Quest for a Vital American Center
By Peter Berkowitz
What a new history of American civil religion gets wrong.