at
Hudson Institute Hertog is co-president of the Hertog Foundation. He currently serves as the executive committee chairman for the
New York Historical Society’s board of directors, and as a board member at the Alexander Hamilton Society. Hertog has spent time on the boards of the
American Enterprise Institute,
New York Public Library,
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the
Washington Institute for Near-East Policy, and is a chairman emeritus of the
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He was a part-owner of now-defunct
The New York Sun and
The New Republic, and is a board member at
Commentary. He is also a major supporter of
National Affairs magazine, edited by
Yuval Levin. Hertog often donates to Jewish and Israeli organizations, and is the chairman of the Tikvah Fund. Hertog has also given money to the
Anti-Defamation League,
Taglit-Birthright Israel, and American Friends of Shalva. He sponsored the creation of the
Bronx Library Center, which opened in 2006. In the 1990s, Hertog, along with other investors, launched one of the first privately funded school-voucher programs, funding 1,000 scholarships annually for poor families interested in sending their children to private schools. Over 25,000 applied for the scholarships. He has invested in the Success Charter Network and Families for Excellent Schools in New York, and funded a study on the charter school movement in New York City. On November 15, 2007, Hertog was awarded a
National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony with
U.S. President George W. Bush. He won the
William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2010. ==See also==