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Feldman’s work is focused on making sense of our complex world. He writes and speaks on constitutional law, history, technology, religion and the importance of being human.

Professor Noah Feldman's new Substack, launching in 2026: Actionable wisdom for challenging times.

I write about the ideas, large and small, that we can use to make sense of our complex and uncertain world and to live meaningfully in it. I write about democracy, power, technology, and how those interact. I offer advice about how to design your own life strategies, the way I do for my student mentees. I will also offer reflections on the contemplative and spiritual sides of life. I will tell you about books that I’ve found especially useful and about other aspects of culture that I think would be valuable to you, including men’s style.

Clear explanations of complex ideas about public life, ethics, power, and meaning
Reflections on books, culture, style, and the habits of a thoughtful life
Mentorship-style guidance on judgment, responsibility, and how to live well in uncertain times
Spiritual and contemplative reflections on stillness, wisdom, and inner life
Cultural commentary that slows the news cycle down to reveal what actually matters

1,000+

Articles published

20+

Years of experience

10+

Books authored

To Be A Jew Today - A New Guide to God, Israel and the Jewish People

New York Times Bestseller!

To Be A Jew Today - A New Guide to God, Israel and the Jewish People

What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of world- wide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and writer Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other— and live their lives accordingly?

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Praise for To Be A Jew Today

"To Be a Jew Today is a beautiful book, a necessary and important book. Written with learning, insight, and anguish, it is a provocation to be argued over (I certainly did) and wrestled with, but it cannot be ignored."

RABBI BENAY LAPPE
President and Rosh Yeshiva of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva

“To Be a Jew Today is a field guide to a richer, more meaningful spiritual life—and not just for Jews. Feldman's answers to the question of 'What's the point of being a Jew?' offer a whole new paradigm for how to think about Jewishness, one that will change how you walk through the world, whether you're Jewish or not."

DAVID WOLPE
Rabbi emeritus of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, and author of David: The Divided Heart and Why Faith Matters

"More than with any book I've read in years, Jewish readers will draw new insights into their own Judaism from Noah Feldman's fresh, fascinating, and compelling analyses of contemporary Jewish life. Feldman exhibits the gift of all great teachers and influential public intellectuals: the ability to take even the most complex ideas and convey them with clarity, context, and honesty."

RABBI DAVID SAPERSTEIN
Director emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom

"To Be a Jew Today is an instant classic, not only because it explains being Jewish in our lifetime, but also because it talks about timeless universal Jewish themes in a magnetic and accessible way."

ROSALIE SILBERMAN ABELLA
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Pisar Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School

"In this exciting and passionately argued new book, Noah Feldman offers us a lifetime of thinking and struggling with being a Jew, and thinking with Judaism, in America today. Broad in scope, sparkling with new insights, often provocative and daring, and deeply rooted in the Jewish textual tradition, Feldman deftly weaves memoir, philosophy, legal theory, and sociological analysis to paint a complex yet accessible portrait of being a Jew and taking Judaism seriously in this crucial time of transition. Highly recommended."

SHAUL MAGID
Professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College and author of The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance

"To Be a Jew Today takes the reader on a rich and nourishing journey that is at once spiritual, emotional, and intellectual while deeply engaged in untangling and understanding and holding space for the mysterious and the unknown. It speaks to those ready to be welcomed into a sacred conversation."

LILA KAGEDA
Director of Biomedical Ethics and the Humanities and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, New York Medical College

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