Z3 Institute Welcomes Joseph Schwartz and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour as Adjunct Fellows

David H.—The Z3 Institute is expanding! We are thrilled to welcome Joseph Schwartz and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour to our growing roster of fellows at the Z3 Institute of Jewish Priorities.

I’ve known Joe Schwartz for years as a deep thinker, passionate Jew and Zionist, and a wise and creative analyst. He’ll be working on a study of Jews and cities—why we are so attracted to urban life, what it reveals about us, and how we have contributed to societies through them.

Hussein is a newer friend, a brilliant scholar, who will be researching the “green” side of the modern antisemitic radical Left, also known as the “red-green alliance.” In the tradition of scholars like Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami, Hussein looks deep into the rise of jihadism in the Arab world and its surging influence in Western countries.

Both of their bios are below. Welcome aboard!

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Joseph Schwartz is an educator, rabbi and attorney. He is the Director of Makom: the Israel Education laboratory of the Jewish Agency for Israel, where he focuses on developing tools for conveying complexity simply. He has taught groups from across the Jewish world and lectured widely. Joseph has been a Jewish entrepreneur, a congregational rabbi in New York City’s Greenwich Village, and a litigator. He has published in Jewish Priorities, the Forward, Ha’aretz, and in many other outlets, as well as on his Substack, Bones of Joseph. Born and raised in New York City, in 2020 Joseph made Aliya with his family. He is married to Avigail and is kvelling father to Zev, Paz and Shai. They live in Tel Aviv.

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is an Egyptian-American writer specializing in modern intellectual history. His work focuses on Arab political thought, Arab intellectual history, and the globalization of antisemitism and revolutionary radicalism. Hussein previously served as an assistant professor of Hebrew language and culture at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. His writings have appeared in Commentary, Tablet, Mosaic, and the Athens Review of Books. Hussein is a sought-after commentator and speaker on issues of antisemitism and extremism in the Middle East. In 2022, he was awarded the Per Ahlmark Award by the UN Watch for his advocacy for human rights, and in 2024, he was awarded the German Mercator Fellowship from the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg. He is a senior research fellow at ISGAP, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.

Save the date! The Z3 Conference is returning to Palo Alto this year on November 5. I’ll be there as well as many of the Z3 Institute scholars. Learn more here. Tickets will go on sale soon—stay tuned.