

Alex Sinclair is a lecturer in the International MA in Jewish Education program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a consultant for educational initiatives by major Jewish philanthropies in Europe and America. He has written and spoken widely on Jewish education, Israel-Diaspora relations, and Israeli society, in both academic and popular contexts. He has worked or consulted for many of the finest Jewish educational and communal institutions in North America, Europe and Israel, including the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, and the Hartman Institute. His first book, published in 2013, Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and he has published two novels, Perfect Enemy in 2023 and Everybody's Hero in 2025. He holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Balliol College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Hebrew University. He lives in Modi’in, Israel with his wife, and sometimes also with his sons, daughter, and daughter-in-law.
