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10/20/2026

Elena Ruiz co-founded a bioethics club, captained her varsity soccer team, and spent a gap year in Edinburgh mentoring teens. A National Latin Exam awardee who has studied Latin, Koine Greek, Arabic, and Spanish, she is now a Rosenthal-Levy Scholar at the University of Florida, pursuing a degree in Great Books and Ideas with a minor in Arabic. She’s one of many scholars who refuse to pick just one lane of study, or take any of them lightly.

The scholarship covers full tuition for all four years and a $7,000 yearly living stipend.

Rosenthal-Levy early track closes Dec. 15. UF regular application closes Jan. 15. Students apply to the University of Florida and to Rosenthal-Levy separately.

Apply now: rosenthallevyscholars.org/eligibility-application-process/

10/20/2026

At a lunch in 2012, Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak sat beside Bernard Lewis and heard a prediction he couldn't accept: that Turkey might one day become an existential threat to Israel. Years later, writing on Turkish-Israeli relations, he can no longer dismiss it. Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/tjeFF6naw4c

10/19/2026

What does it take to prepare young people for a life of consequence? That’s the question behind the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program.

At The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Civic Leadership, it takes serious study of the ideas and institutions that make free societies possible—civics, great books, philosophy, politics, economics, and strategy—alongside a full tuition award and a $7,000 yearly living stipend.

UT Austin regular application closes Dec. 1. Rosenthal-Levy early track closes Dec. 15. Students apply to UT Austin and to Rosenthal-Levy separately.

Learn more about the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program: rosenthallevyscholars.org/eligibility-application-process/

10/19/2026

Rachel Fish offers her read on what drives some scholars' hostility toward Israel. She calls it moral narcissism: a compulsion to distance oneself, to declare "not in my name," and to insist Israel was born in sin. If that premise holds, she argues, being on the so-called right side of history means favoring the state's dissolution. You can watch the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-8DD6_wBc

10/16/2026

Not long ago, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour notes, no politician with hope of winning office would tell the public that American history was something to be ashamed of. Now candidates for the Senate and the presidency say it openly. His argument isn't that they came to believe it—it's that saying it became politically profitable. And he sees the same mechanism now operating around Israel. Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/2WVipRfcrLY

10/16/2026

Hebraic ideas helped shape America’s founding language of equality, covenant, liberty, and opposition to tyranny. In their new essay for National Affairs, Eric Cohen and Steven Price argue that work is far from finished—and that Jews and Christians alike share responsibility for transmitting this inheritance to the next generation. The argument builds on Cohen's earlier essay with Jonathan Silver in Mosaic, "America's Hebraic Awakening," which likewise argues that recovering America's Hebraic inheritance is essential to national renewal.

Read the full essay: https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/toward-renaissance-american-jewish-education

10/15/2026

A civilization endures only when each generation chooses to inherit it. Rosenthal-Levy Scholars study the ideas that built the West—and prepare to carry them forward.

Full tuition. $7,000 a year. Four years at the University of Florida or The University of Texas at Austin.

Through Dec. 15: Rosenthal-Levy early track.

Learn more about the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program: https://rosenthallevyscholars.org/eligibility-application-process/

10/15/2026

Turkey issued arrest warrants against Israel's prime minister and defense minister—which might look partisan, aimed at one government. But Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak points to another name on the sanctions list: Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, a figure Israelis regard as above politics and who would stay in place under any government. His conclusion: this isn't a quarrel with Netanyahu. It's with Israel itself. Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/tjeFF6naw4c

10/14/2026

Walter Russell Mead is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the UF Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several influential books, including The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.

He is one of the distinguished Rosenthal-Levy faculty—along with other scholars whose work has shaped the worlds of scholarship, public life, and statecraft, and who bring firsthand experience of leadership into the classroom.

Learn more about the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program, which comes with full tuition and a $7,000 annual stipend: https://rosenthallevyscholars.org/eligibility-application-process/

10/14/2026

Should Jewish art get its own gallery?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York displays its Hanukkah lamps and Torah crowns among European silver, as fine examples of Rococo and Baroque style. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston took the opposite approach, opening a gallery devoted entirely to Jewish ritual art, from a Yemenite headdress to a Baghdadi Torah case to work by contemporary Israeli artists.

In the latest installment of The Seeing Eye, Jacob Wisse visits both museums and asks which one lets you see these objects for what they really are.

Read the essay:

A tale of two museums.