David Hazony

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David Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He is editor of The Tower Magazine,[1] and a senior member of The Israel Project.

Hazony has written for the New Republic,[2] CNN.com,[3] The Forward,[4] Commentary,[5] Moment,[6] the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, and Jewish Ideas Daily.[7] 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. He has appeared on CNN,[8] MSNBC,[9] and Fox News.[10]

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 recently published a controversial series of essays about the growing distance between American Jews and Israelis.

Hazony is an expert on the Jewish philosopher Eliezer Berkovits.

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).

References

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  1. The Tower Magazine
  2. "Virtually Normal," The New Republic, June 11, 2008.
  3. "Are the Ten Commandments Still Relevant?" December 14, 2010.
  4. David Hazony's articles in The Forward.
  5. David Hazony's posts on Contentions, the weblog of Commentary Magazine.
  6. "Welcome to Fire-Extinguisher Judaism," Moment, May/June 2010.
  7. David Hazony's writings at Jewish Ideas Daily.
  8. Appearance on Erin Burnett Out Front, March 2015.
  9. Appearance on Luke Russert show, March 2, 2015.
  10. Appearance on FoxNews, November 12, 2010.