David Benger

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May 1, 2021, 1:23 AM

Emor: Learning from Our Calendar After Catastrophe

A version of these remarks was delivered before the congregation of Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Massachusetts. When I accepted the honor of sharing a word of Torah this evening, I wrote a few different outlines of subjects I might discuss....

Apr 22, 2021, 1:47 PM

Choosing President Biden’s Antisemitism Ambassador

On April 19th, the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Antisemitism submitted a letter to President Biden urging him to “expeditiously nominate a qualified Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in order to confront the rising level of anti-Semitism...

Mar 2, 2021, 1:47 PM

The Extraordinary Catharsis of The InTeaFada

Twitter is not the real world, and often what transpires within the confines of that website is of no consequence. But on Monday, March 1st, Twitter played host to what I am labeling the InTeaFada. The InTeaFada was an...

Sep 8, 2019, 10:16 AM

Michael Bennet Is the Best Bet for US-Israel Relations

My grandparents’ generation in the United States opened the newspaper in the morning, scanned every headline, and asked themselves, “Is this good for the Jews or bad for the Jews?” This instinct, honed by centuries of persecution and attempted...

Mar 5, 2017, 2:11 PM

Jewish joy in Cambodia

A chuppah in the land returning from the killing fields celebrates world Jewry as much as it welcomes the new couple

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About Me

David is a research fellow at Harvard University, and a publishing Adjunct at The MirYam Institute. He is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as the chapter president of Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law, and the Events Chair of the HLS Alliance for Israel, as well as an editor on the Journal of Law and Public Policy and the HLS National Security Journal. Previously, he was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he studied international relations with a focus on international law and Israel-China relations. He received his BA summa cum laude in Politics and Russian Studies from Brandeis University. Please follow him on Twitter at @David_Benger