RABBI STUART HALPERN serves as the Senior Advisor to the Provost and Deputy Director of the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. His writing on the Hebrew Bible's impact on the United States has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Tablet, Jewish Review of Books, and First Things. Among his edited books are The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggadah, Esther in America, and Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States.