Zahava Feldstein

Zahava Feldstein is a researcher, speaker, and author specializing in campus antisemitism, Jewish education, and ethnic studies. She has spoken at universities and organizations worldwide and leads research, curriculum, and network development initiatives bridging scholarship and public discourse.

Zahava received a MA in Divinity (History of Judaism) from the University of Chicago, where she was a Divinity Dean’s Fellow and a recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) academic-year award. She earned a MA in Education from Stanford University, where she was a Jim Joseph Doctoral Fellow in Education & Jewish Studies prior to withdrawing from the PhD program in response to pervasive and targeted antisemitism.

Zahava is currently pursuing a doctorate in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College in its inaugural cohort.

An impactful storyteller whose writing reaches broad audiences, Zahava’s November 2024 Moment Magazine op-ed about antisemitism at Stanford was the second most-read of the year, and her 2025 Times of Israel essay—“How I Learned to Stop Apologizing for Being a Jew”—trended globally within hours of publication, reaching #2 on the site’s “Most Popular” list.