When it comes to many of the great cultural and political issues of our age—religious freedom, school choice, the culture of the family, love of Israel—Jews and Christians are indispensable allies to one another and essential leaders for the country. The time has come to form a deeper cultural and political alliance between our two communities in the public arena, while respecting the permanent theological differences that will forever define our distinct identities as Jews and as Christians.
Gary L. Bauer
Gary Bauer is one of America’s most effective spokesmen for pro-life, pro-family, and pro-growth values. He served in President Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years. While serving at the Education Department, Bauer was named Chairman of President Reagan's Special Working Group on the Family.
Completing his service in the Reagan White House in late 1988, Gary Bauer became President of the Family Research Council and a Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family. He took his pro-family, pro-life message across the country in 1999 and into the 2000 Republican presidential debates and primaries. He has continued to champion these and other causes at American Values, a non-profit educational organization Bauer founded after the 2000 presidential campaign.
Bauer is also a leading Christian advocate for a strong and secure Israel and has devoted considerable time and energy to strengthening the shared values of the Israeli/American alliance.
He is the author of Our Journey Home, published in October 1992; co-author of Children at Risk: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Our Kids written with Focus on the Family Chairman and Founder, Dr. James Dobson; author of Our Hopes, Our Dreams: A Vision for America, published in 1996, and Doing Things Right, published in 2001.
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is one of the world’s preeminent Jewish thinkers and educators, and he’s one of America’s most influential religious leaders. He is the senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He is also director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured internationally to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to faith in America, the Hebraic roots of the American founding, Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, Jewish-Christian relations, and more. He writes a monthly column in Commentary magazine, and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Mosaic, First Things, Azure, Tradition, Jewish Review of Books, and many other outlets. Rabbi Soloveichik is a descendant of one of the Jewish world’s great rabbinic dynasties. He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and studied at its Beren Kollel Elyon. He has also studied at Yale Divinity School, and in 2010 received his doctorate in religion from Princeton University.