J.J. Kimche is a student, teacher, researcher, editor, ghostwriter, and translator, currently residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
J.J. is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where he specialises in the intersection between European and Jewish Intellectual history during the post-Enlightenment period. J.J. received his undergraduate education at Shalem College, Jerusalem, where he double-majored in Western philosophy and Jewish thought. Prior to that, he studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and completed his military service in the 101st Division of the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade.
J.J. has been involved in studying and teaching Jewish ideas his entire adult life. Over the past decade he has taught Jewish philosophy at a prominent Yeshivah, lectured on Greek philosophy at a pre-army academy, and worked as a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He has taught courses in Jewish and Western intellectual history at Harvard University, Brandeis University, Case Western Reserve University, and at Graetz College. J.J. also spent three years teaching Jewish subjects at MIT Hillel, and continues to lecture through various educational organisations.
His writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, First Things, and City Journal, as well as in a wide array of academic journals and popular platforms. He has ghostwritten two books on Jewish ideas, and his first academic book is due to be published in 2024.