Tikvah Fund
Tikvah receives largest grant in NEH history to fight Jew-hatred
“At this weighty moment in the history of the West, we believe that Jewish ideas are essential to strengthening the best of our shared American culture,” stated Eric Cohen, the CEO of Tikvah.
“We Jews are the blue and white in the red, white and blue,” the Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse told attendees of the Jewish Leadership Conference.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has “spoken out forcefully against campus antisemitism,” Kenneth Marcus told JNS.
“It’s got to occur to the Israelis—the iron is hot, do we strike now?” Elliott Abrams, former U.S. special representative for Iran, told JNS.
“This waiting period [ahead of the IDF operation in Rafah] is giving political groups an opportunity to be center stage,” said Shimon Or, whose nephew Avinatan is in Gaza.
It is a joint project of the Tikvah Fund and the University of Dallas.
While several speakers pushed back on American liberalism and “wokeism” gone mad, the focus was kept on Jewish conservatism and education, and Israel’s future as a conservative democracy.
“Once people have tasted freedom in economics, or ideas, it’s hard to return them to the cell,” says Israeli Freedom Movement founder.
“A Jewish museum that has permitted [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to speak during her campaign for election is stating falsehoods when it says [Ron] DeSantis can’t speak because ‘we don’t do politics,’ ” said Elliott Abrams, chairman of the Tikvah Fund.
Students engage in talks with professors, policy experts, writers and rabbis, who share experiences and wisdom with the hope that participants can apply the lessons to their own lives.
Israelis tend towards conservatism because of complex security needs and a social structure that promotes “personal relationships between individuals and communities,” says Tikvah Fund Israel CEO Amiad Cohen.
