February 2026 saw several Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought faculty and staff publish in leading publications, contributing to the discourse and debates that continue to shape American society and the Jewish people.
Straus Center Director Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik published his monthly column in Commentary. Titled 鈥,鈥 it argued that the debate in Britain over assisted suicide reveals that the biblical heritage of the West has not yet entirely disappeared. Also for Commentary, Rabbi Soloveichik memorialized , the former editor-in-chief of the magazine and a pillar of the conservative intellectual movement. Finally, on The Tikvah Podcast, Rabbi Soloveichik joined Tikvah CEO Eric Cohen and Museum of the Bible CEO Carlos Campo for a discussion on .
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, deputy director of the Straus Center, published several reflections for President鈥檚 Day. For the American Bible Society, he looked at how, following the presidency of George Washington, American presidents continued to be for centuries. In ARC, he observed how , turning the nation鈥檚 founding into a biblical story of deliverance. And for the Jewish Journal, he recounted a meeting between . Also for the Jewish Journal, he reviewed Rabbi Mark Wildes鈥 and profiled a .
For the Wall Street Journal, Straus Center Senior Scholar Dr. Tevi Troy reviewed and looked back at some of the more in modern American history.
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