Originally from Buffalo, NY, in 2009 Jason completed an MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His research interests center on Zionism and its critics. Jason recently completed his masters thesis entitled "Resigning to Change: The Foundation and Transformation of the American Council for Judaism," in which he studied the formation of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism in 1942 and the intellectual and organizational forces that secularized this originally Reform Rabbinical organization. Jason is also deeply interested in the thought of Simon Rawidowicz, and plans to continue his research on Jewish nationalist thought that has been subsumed into Zionism as well as the relationship between Jewish life in 19th century Russia and the Yishuv.