LISTEN TO DAVID HAZONY ON TALKING POINT:
Jewish Priorities – 65 Proposals for the Future of our People
In the aftermath of the Hamas Massacre, Laura speaks with award-winning editor, translator, and author David Hazony about his newest work, Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (Wicked Son, 2023), which brings together 65 diverse contemporary thought leaders from across the Jewish world.
Hazony discusses how he has personally been affected by October 7, what it’s like to have five kids in the IDF at the same time, why America Jewry needs to focus on good news more than bad news, how to get out of the rut of ‘fire extinguisher Judaism,’ the power of ‘no,’ and drawing inspiration from our youngest heroes.
DAVID HAZONY is an award-winning editor, translator, and author. His newest work, Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (Wicked Son, 2023), brings together a remarkable array of new essays from across the Jewish world.
He is the former editor-in-chief of the journal Azure and was the founding editor of TheTower.org. His book The Ten Commandments (Scribner, 2010) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His translation of Uri Bar-Joseph’s The Angel (Harper-Collins, 2016) was a winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
He has edited two previous anthologies: Essential Essays on Judaism by Eliezer Berkovits (Shalem, 2002), and, with Yoram Hazony and Michael B. Oren, New Essays on Zionism (Shalem, 2007). He has a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem.
