June 23, 2025

The Sinai Awards, created by artist Judi Harvest for Tablet Magazine were presented on June 23, 2025 at Casa Cipriani in New York.

Presented to 36 people who have made the world freer for the rest of us

The names belong to people who've made the world freer in the past few years-not necessarily calmer, or safer, or prettier-or whose work in previous years laid the groundwork for others to be able to fight for freedom in this moment.

To honor Sinai recipients, Tablet commissioned artist Judi Harvest to create a unique award, which you can see in the picture above. Handmade in Murano from a lost-wax mold of a genuine piece of matzo baked in the Venice Ghetto, it is a beautiful, translucent emblem of the struggle toward freedom.

The recipients are:

Debra Messing, David Zweig, Justine Bateman, Bruce Pearl, Joel Salatin, Yisreal Aumann, He Jiankui, Matt Tabbi, JK Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Julian Assange, Oliver Assayas, Bernard-Henri Levy, Quentin Tarantino, Richie Torres, Bari Weiss, Ruth Wisse, Michael Houellebecq, John Fetterman, Stephen Friend, Coleman Hughes, George Deek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Natan Sharansky, Michael Solomonov, Cynthia Ozick, Masih Alinejad, Marc Andreessen, Nayib Bukele, John Huntsman, Conor McGregor, Nadine Strossen, Tu Youyou, Michael Walzer, Thomas Sowell, Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, Mark Laita