Carl Alpert (Hebrew: קרל אלפרט; May 12, 1913 – May 12, 2005) was a Boston-born journalist, author, communal worker and public relations specialist, first in America and then in Israel (where he settled in 1952 after making Aliyah).

[7] Alpert began his career serving as a copywriter at the Bay State Mailing Service in Boston in 1930, becoming a reporter at the city’s Jewish Advocate newspaper in 1932[1] and then its editor from 1935-40.

[29][30] From the beginning of his career, Alpert was recognized as “one of the hardest-working Anglo-Jewish editors in the profession.”[31] On several occasions he took on controversial subjects in the media, including responses to a widely-discussed 1949 Commentary article by Isaac Rosenfeld[32] and to a 1951 The New York Times editorial which faulted President Harry Truman for recognizing Israel.

He excelled at sharing those paradoxes.”[4] “An Alpert column followed a pattern,” stated another editor, “the presentation of an interesting personality or issue, followed by a description … of various points of view on the subject.

But I joined rather than fought.”[35] In 2013, an article in The American Jewish Archives Journal (Volume 65 containing numbers 1 & 2) featured Carl Alpert's 1938 reportage.

[36] In 2002, Alpert was cited for his work at the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel[37] (for which he had served as president from 1957 to 1959),[38] and that December in Haifa he was awarded the title of “Citizen of Merit” for his journalism career.