Adam S. Ferziger holds the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch chair and is professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He is co-convener of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism, University of Oxford. His monograph, 'Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism' (Wayne State University Press, 2015), won a National Jewish Book Award. His newest book is 'Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism' (NYU Press, 2025).