What is the history of the “Jewish vote” and what roles have American Jews played in American presidential politics? Explore the history of how American Jews have thought about presidential politics and consider how this history might inform how we think about the 2024 election.

Jonathan Golden is the founder of HeartStance Education Consulting. He teaches at Hebrew College and the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and serves as a fellow at the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.

Jonathan was the Israel Curriculum Coordinator and a history teacher at Gann Academy, a pluralistic Jewish high school in Waltham, MA, where he taught from 1999 to 2023. A graduate of Princeton University, he received his M.J.Ed. from Hebrew College and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. At Brandeis, he studied American Jewish history under Professor Jonathan Sarna and wrote a dissertation entitled From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Rise and Fall of the Synagogue Council of America.

He has participated in the Schusterman Center Summer Institute for Israel Studies, which in 2022 included participants from Abraham Accords countries (Morocco, Bahrain, UAE). Jonathan has also taught the Myra Kraft Seminar on Israel to first-year students in the Hornstein program at Brandeis University.