Leora Faye Batnitzky (born 1966) is an American philosopher and the current Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies at Princeton University.
[1] Her research interests include religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory.
[2] She has been called "the most incisive and remarkable scholar of modern Jewish thought of our time," and is considered to have introduced a paradigm shift to academic political theology, Zionism, and Judaic Studies.
[4] How Judaism Became a Religion was named by The Forward as one of the most important books to read to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Her mother taught Judaic studies at the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in Overland Park, Kansas.