Cherishing and Strengthening America’s Heritage of Religious Freedom with Rabbi Soloveichik and Carlos Campo

Rabbi Soloveichik and Carlos Campus, moderated by Eric Cohen of the Tikvah Fund, delivered these remarks at the 2025-2026 series of the Levy Forum for Open Discourse. The Levy Forum is a speaker series hosted at the Palm Beach Synagogue, sponsored by ACTA board member Paul Levy and ACTA. The goal of these events is to promote the epistemic virtues that ACTA seeks to promote on university campuses across the country, such as curiosity, objectivity, and wisdom.

Carlos Campo is the president and chief executive officer of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. His appointment follows a distinguished career in higher education, including service as president of Ashland University, president of Regent University, and chief academic officer at the College of Southern Nevada. Dr. Campo serves as vice chair of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and is widely regarded as one of the nation’s most influential Latino Christian leaders. Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik is director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, and Israel on topics relating to Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations.