Liel Leibovitz

Senior Fellow

Leibovitz

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Liel Leibovitz is a senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. His work focuses on thinking about anti-Semitism as a national security threat.

Biography

Liel Leibovitz is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. His work focuses on thinking about anti-Semitism as a national security threat.

Leibovitz is an editor at large for Tablet and the host of several of its popular podcasts. He is also the author or coauthor of a number of books, including, most recently How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice From a Very Old Book, and Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization, soon to be a major motion picture. He also writes the regular “Leibovitz at Large” column for First Things, and is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and other national publications. 

He holds a PhD in communications from Columbia University, focusing on video games and human-machine interactions. He formerly served as associate professor at Barnard College and assistant professor at New York University, researching the intersections of interactive media and religion.

A noncommissioned officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Leibovitz also served as the senior press officer at the Consulate General of Israel in New York, and remains actively and enthusiastically involved in a number of Jewish and pro-Israeli organizations. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

Events
19
September 2024
Past Event
October 7 and the Coming Wars for Freedom
Featured Speakers:
Liel Leibovitz
Bernard-Henri Lévy
French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy speaks during an evening against the rise of antisemitism in Europe on June 3, 2024, in Paris. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)
19
September 2024
Past Event
October 7 and the Coming Wars for Freedom

Join renowned philosopher and author Bernard-Henri Lévy for a conversation with Hudson Senior Fellow Liel Leibovitz on how the attack of October 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza are likely to shape geopolitics for decades to come.

French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy speaks during an evening against the rise of antisemitism in Europe on June 3, 2024, in Paris. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Liel Leibovitz
Bernard-Henri Lévy
20
June 2024
Past Event
The Agendas of Jew Hatred
Featured Speakers:
Daniel Schwammenthal
Ilan Berman
Paul Caresse
Liel Leibovitz
Moderator:
Michael Doran
Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside the Fordham University Lincoln Center on May 1, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
20
June 2024
Past Event
The Agendas of Jew Hatred

What are the hidden agendas of antisemites and anti-Zionists? What are the implications of this agenda for national security? And what is to be done?

Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside the Fordham University Lincoln Center on May 1, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Daniel Schwammenthal
Ilan Berman
Paul Caresse
Liel Leibovitz
Moderator:
Michael Doran
07
May 2024
Past Event
The College Campus Tentifada: How It Started, Why It Matters, and How to Curb It
Featured Speakers:
Ran Kivetz
Liel Leibovitz
Asaf Romirowsky
Moderator:
Michael Doran
An American flag hangs from the roof of Lisner Hall of the George Washington University Law School as people walk around an encampment at University Yard on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some demonstrators calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
07
May 2024
Past Event
The College Campus Tentifada: How It Started, Why It Matters, and How to Curb It

Michael Doran hosts Professor Ran Kivetz, Asaf Romirowsky, and Liel Leibovitz to discuss the causes of the recent slate of pro-Hamas encampments on American college campuses.

An American flag hangs from the roof of Lisner Hall of the George Washington University Law School as people walk around an encampment at University Yard on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some demonstrators calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Ran Kivetz
Liel Leibovitz
Asaf Romirowsky
Moderator:
Michael Doran
Workers raise the Israeli flag at the Western Wall before the "In Memoriam of 1,400 Souls: Special Candle-Lighting Ceremony" begins marking 30 days since the Oct 7th Hamas attack, at the Western Wall on November 6, 2023 in Jerusalem. Families of victims killed, as well as those hostages and others effected participated in the ceremony, which included the lighting of over 1400 yahrzeit Memorial candles. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
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Workers raise the Israeli flag at the Western Wall before the ceremony begins marking 30 days since the Oct 7th Hamas attack on November 6, 2023, in Jerusalem. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)
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