David Hazony
David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017,[1] and from 2017-2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund.[2]
Hazony has written for the New Republic,[3] CNN.com,[4] The Forward,[5] Commentary,[6] Moment,[7] the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, and Jewish Ideas Daily.[8] He is a regular contributor to Contentions, the weblog of Commentary Magazine. Until 2007, he was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by his older brother Yoram Hazony. In 2004–2007, he served as editor in chief of Azure, its quarterly.[9] He has appeared on CNN,[10] MSNBC,[11] and Fox News.[12]
Hazony has studied at Columbia University, received a B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University, and completed his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a contributing editor at The Forward, where he has published a series of essays about the growing distance between American Jews and Israelis.
Hazony is an expert on the Jewish philosopher Eliezer Berkovits.[13]
Books
- Author of The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life (Scribner, September 2010), a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award.
- Edited Eliezer Berkovits, Essential Essays on Judaism (Shalem Press, 2002); Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History (Shalem Press, 2004); and (together with Michael B. Oren and Yoram Hazony, eds.), New Essays on Zionism (Shalem Press, 2007).
- Translated Emuna Elon's novel If You Awaken Love (Toby, 2007), a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award.
- Translated Uri Bar-Joseph, "The Angel" (HarperCollins, 2016), winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.
Essays
- "Israeli Identity and the Future of American Jewry," The Tower Magazine, June-July 2017.[14]
- "The Mind of the President," The Tower Magazine, June 2016. [15]
- "Zionism and the Changing Global Structure" (with Adam Scott Bellos), The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2017.[16]
- "How Israel Is Solving the Global Water Crisis," The Tower Magazine, October 2015.[17]
References
- ^ "Magazine". TheTower.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Our Team". www.TIIFund.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Virtually Normal", The New Republic, June 11, 2008
- ^ "My Take: Are the Ten Commandments still relevant?". CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "David Hazony". Forward.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ David Hazony's posts on Contentions, the weblog of Commentary Magazine.
- ^ ""Welcome to Fire-Extinguisher Judaism," Moment, May/June 2010". MomentMag.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Jewish Ideas Daily » Authors » David Hazony". www.JewishIdeasDaily.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation". www.Azure.org.il. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Was Netanyahu's speech a success? - CNN Video". CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Looking at the politics behind Netanyahu's speech". MSNBC.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Setback in Mid-East Peace Talks". Fox News. May 3, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/06/essential-essays-on-judaism
- ^ http://www.thetower.org/article/israeli-identity-and-the-future-of-american-jewry/
- ^ http://www.thetower.org/article/the-mind-of-the-president/
- ^ https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Zionism-and-the-changing-global-structure-517864
- ^ http://www.thetower.org/article/how-israel-is-solving-the-global-water-crisis/
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