Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams is the chairman of the Tikvah Fund in New York and a board member of the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he is the author of Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America and four other books.

A senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, his career in foreign policy includes working for late Senators Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan, serving as an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration, and handling relations with Israel as a deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration.