Benjamin Kerstein
Senior Fellow

Benjamin Kerstein is an Israeli-American writer and journalist. Born in Boston, he moved to Israel in 2002, where he received degrees in Jewish history from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including Azure, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, the Algemeiner, Quillette, and others. He is currently a Featured Columnist at JNS.org and writes the Substack journal No Delusions, No Despair. In 2024, he received the Louis Rappoport Award for Excellence in Commentary from the American Jewish Press Association.