Our mission
at the Academic Torah Institute is to democratize scholarship on the Bible and foundational Jewish texts—making it accessible, relevant, and compelling for readers from all backgrounds.
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We believe
that knowledge-driven, intellectually honest engagement with tradition is essential to cultivating a more tolerant and educated society for generations to come.
The Academic Torah Institute serves a broad and diverse audience, including clergy, educators, students, and laypeople seeking intellectually rigorous yet accessible engagement with the Bible, Talmud, and other Jewish texts.
Authors Over 580 contributing scholars from universities across the globe including: Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Duke, Brown, NYU (USA), Hebrew U., Tel Aviv U., Bar-Ilan U., Haifa U. (Israel), Oxford and Cambridge (UK), and universities in Canada, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Finland and Japan.
Scholarship across academic disciplines, including history, archaeology, ancient Near Eastern studies, Egyptology, Semitic languages, textual criticism, literary criticism, and source criticism, among other fields.
Readership Millions of page visits annually across our English and Hebrew platforms.
Credibility University professors trust and assign our articles as required reading, and clergy and educators rely on our resources for teaching and study.
Rabbi David Steinberg
Co-Founder and Director
Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler
Supervising Editor and Co-Founder
Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber
Senior Editor and Fellow
Dr. Tina M. Sherman
Editor, TheTorah.com
Dr. Hilary Lipka
Editor, TheTorah.com
Emily Branton
Editor, TheTorah.com
Dr. Avi Dentelski
Fellow
David Bar-Cohn
Manager of Operations
Dr. Flora Anthony
Director of Grants
Dr. Gili Kugler
Academic Editor, TheTorah.co.il
Dr. Shira Golani
Academic Editor, TheTorah.co.il
Hila Hershkowitz
Associate Editor, TheTorah.co.il
Oded Levine
Associate Editor, TheTorah.co.il
Educators, clergy, and thought leaders reflect on the impact of our work:
The Academic Torah Institute (formerly Project TABS) is a registered 501(c)(3). We bring traditional Torah learning into conversation with rigorous academic scholarship, working with individuals, scholars, educators, and institutions who share this mission.
Through scholarly collaboration, educational initiatives, content creation, and strategic partnerships, we will grow our library, spark meaningful dialogue, and launch projects that bring critical Jewish scholarship to life for a broad audience.
To explore collaboration, contact:
Rabbi David Steinberg, Director and Co-Founder
director@thetorah.com
