Yisroel Ben-Porat serves as the Programming & Communications Officer at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. Previously, he taught history at City College and Queens College, and he served as Managing Editor of The Lehrhaus.

He successfully defended his PhD in early American history at CUNY Graduate Center in 2024, after graduating summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 2018. His dissertation, “Hebraic Puritans: Old Testament Politics in Early New England,” focuses on how Puritans used the Hebrew Bible as a legal and political text in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world.

His publications include a peer-reviewed article in the journal Tradition, a book chapter in the edited volume Esther in America (2020), and numerous pieces in The Lehrhaus, TraditionOnline, Jewish Journal, and Torah Musings.

His work has been featured by a variety of media venues, including Mosaic, 18Forty, and YU News, and he has appeared as a guest on multiple podcast episodes.

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