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name: David Hazony
about: David Hazony is the author of "The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life" (Scribner, 2010), which was a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award. To order, click here: http://bit.ly/cy5lkB David's writings have appeared in The New Republic, Commentary, the Forward, CNN.com, the Jewish Chronicle, The New York Sun, Policy Review, the Jerusalem Post, and others. He blogs regularly at Contentions, the blog of Commentary Magazine. From 2004-2007, Hazony served as editor-in-chief of Azure, the quarterly journal of Jewish public thought published by the Shalem Center. He completed his PhD at Hebrew University in Jewish Philosophy, and has focused his research on the thought of Eliezer Berkovits, including David Hazony is the author of "The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life" (Scribner, 2010), which was a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award. To order, click here: http://bit.ly/cy5lkB David's writings have appeared in The New Republic, Commentary, the Forward, CNN.com, the Jewish Chronicle, The New York Sun, Policy Review, the Jerusalem Post, and others. He blogs regularly at Contentions, the blog of Commentary Magazine. From 2004-2007, Hazony served as editor-in-chief of Azure, the quarterly journal of Jewish public thought published by the Shalem Center. He completed his PhD at Hebrew University in Jewish Philosophy, and has focused his research on the thought of Eliezer Berkovits, including two major essays on his thought, and editing two volumes of Berkovits' writings. Hazony also translated Emunah Elon's novel "If You Awaken Love," which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 2007; and Uri Bar-Joseph's Bestseller "The Angel" (HarperCollins, 2014).From 2013-2017, he moved to Washington DC where he served as Founding Editor of The Tower Magazine, a publication covering politics and culture of the Middle East. Today he serves as Executive Director of The Israel Innovation Fund (http://tiif.org), a foundation dedicated to Israeli culture. ...more