Dr. Andrew Bostom

Rick Sopher, is a banker turned self-described “Interfaith activist.” Sopher has launched a personal jihad of the mouth and pen to combat what he terms “Quranophobia,” culminating in his just released collaborative book entitled, Illuminating Scriptural Connections. A gushing account … Continue reading →

Shlomo Dov [S. D.] Goitein (1900–1985) was a historian of Muslim-Jewish relations and a Jewish ethnographer, renowned for his expositions of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages (c. 950–1250 CE), based on the careful analysis of thousands of Geniza … Continue reading →

Here is the verbatim text of the article: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/links-quran-torah-build-bridges-ndhnjfxc2 “Links between Quran and Torah can help build interfaith bridges” Instead of being a source of tension between faiths, a recognition of the connections between the scriptures has the potential to … Continue reading →

Transcript of lecture given by Rick Sopher, July 30, 2026 at The ISGAP Summer Institute Link to video of lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Q2kEEsdcU&t=1s So, as the Wolf Institute, we really are bridge builders, and I think Rick Sofer, who’s joining us here … Continue reading →

Embedded video just below: Link to pdf of slide presentation: 9.17.26 presentation for Landes Link to pdf of lecture transcript: Transcript for 9112026 lecture video

(*Forme Fruste per Merriam Webster: “an atypical and usually incomplete manifestation of a disease”) Sylvia Haim (Kedourie) one of the most esteemed 20th century scholars of so-called “secular” Arab nationalism long ago demonstrated that this ideology was in fact another expression … Continue reading →

My recent (Thursday 8/20/26) lecture for the Zionist Organization of America (video embedded below) & its Conclusions:  

Link to pdf of presentation slides: ZOA Pres 8.20.26

My 8/11/26 interview (embedded just below) with Scott Jennings and a  transcript of the interview (below the video). We discussed my Real CLear Investigations essay, “Anatomy of the ‘Islamophobic’ Shooting That Wasn’t” TRANSCRIPT [Scott Jennings] “This is the Scott Jennings … Continue reading →