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Born and raised in Chicago, Meir Soloveichik attended Yeshiva College in New York, studied religious philosophy at the Yale Divinity School, and earned his PhD in religion from Princeton University. He serves as Director of Yeshiva University’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and as Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. Soloveichik has published widely on both Jewish and American history and has lectured around the world on the intersection of religious and political thought. Most recently, Bible 365, a six-days-a-week podcast that guides listeners through the entire Hebrew Bible, has struck a deep chord among audiences religious and non-religious alike. Soloveichik has testified before the U.S. Congress on the subjects of law and religion and served as a member of the State Department’s Commission on Inalienable Human Rights.
“Drawing upon a mastery of Jewish diplomatic history from King David to David Ben Gurion, an equally astounding familiarity with American culture, and a literary gift that would be the envy of many novelists, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik has produced a book that is a pleasure to read and a delight to the mind.” —Norman Podhoretz, Former editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine and author of Why Are Jews Liberals? “Meir Soloveichik has given us a fascinating read. Providence and Power is more than engaging, however. It's also an important contribution to the ongoing reflection by multiple parties on the relationship of religious conviction to statecraft-and it will thus reward close reading by political thinkers, lawmakers, people of biblical faith, and interested citizens everywhere.” —George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center “Winston Churchill once told a young American to study history ‘as therein lies all the secrets of statecraft.’ Rabbi Soloveichik has taken this advice to heart, revealing the secrets of Jewish statesmanship over the millennia with a historian’s scholarship but also with a novelist’s eye for anecdote and a pleasing wit. By drawing out common themes, this is also an important handbook for leadership in our own times.”= —Andrew Roberts, author: ‘Churchill: Walking with Destiny’ How did the Jewish people continue to govern itself through the hard millennia of separation from its land? This exciting book locates a key to the mystery in the overlooked area of Jewish statecraft, and in men and women—monarchs, scholar-rabbis, self-appointed leaders—who negotiated successfully between divine providence and earthly power. Rabbi Soloveichik’s uniquely personal engagement with the whole sweep of Jewish experience makes his telling of their stories every bit as inspiring as its subjects. —Ruth Wisse, Professor Emerita, Harvard University, author: Free As A Jew
