MV Summer Institute Speaker – Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman
To Be a Jew Today: Wrestling with God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Noah Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, all at Harvard University. He specializes in constitutional studies, with emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas.
A policy and public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, Feldman also writes for The New York Review of Books and was a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine for nearly a decade. He hosts the Deep Background podcast, exploring the historical, scientific, legal and cultural context behind the biggest stories in the news.
Through his consultancy, Ethical Compass, Feldman advises clients like Facebook and eBay on how to improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions. He is the author of 10 books, including his latest forthcoming title, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel and the Jewish People (Farrar Straus and Giroux, spring 2024).
