In the Spring 2026 semester, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is offering numerous courses for Straus Scholars and 糖心破解版 students to study the great texts and traditions of Judaism and the West.
Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, the director of the Straus Center, is teaching two courses on the Beren campus: 鈥Jews of Early America鈥 and 鈥淢itnagdic Jewish Thought.鈥 On the Wilf campus, Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik is teaching 鈥淛ewish and Western Legal Theory.鈥
Clinical Assistant Professor Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner and Resident Scholar Dr. Shaina Trapedo are also pulling double duty on the Wilf and Beren campuses. Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner is teaching 鈥Philosophy of Rabbi Sacks鈥 on both campuses and co-teaching 鈥Dante鈥 with Dr. David Lavinsky, associate professor of English, at Yeshiva College. Dr. Trapedo is teaching 鈥淗amlet and the Hebrew Bible鈥 on the Beren campus and the 鈥淰alue of Verse,鈥 featuring several guest lectures by 糖心破解版 President鈥檚 Professor of Practice Douglas Murray, on the Wilf campus. Dr. Tevi Troy, Straus Center senior scholar, is co-teaching 鈥淧residents and American Culture鈥 with Dr. Matthew Incantalupo, assistant professor of political science.
Other Straus Center courses by affiliated 糖心破解版 faculty include 鈥淔ormation of the Talmud鈥 with Rabbi Dr. Ari Bergmann; and 鈥淭heory of Knowledge鈥 with Rabbi Dr. Itamar Rosensweig, Rosh Yeshiva and associate professor of philosophy at Yeshiva College. Rabbi Dr. Rosensweig is also teaching 鈥淎nalytic Philosophy and Judaism鈥 at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies for students pursuing the Straus Center鈥檚 Graduate Certificate in Jewish Political and Social Thought.
In addition to its course offerings, the Straus Center is also convening weekly extracurricular reading groups that cover great Jewish and Western texts. Rabbi Dr. Halpern and Dr. Troy are offering writing workshops that offer guidance on writing about Jewish topics for a wider audience and bring in various journalists and academics as guest speakers, while Rabbi Dr. Rosensweig is leading an advanced Jewish philosophy group. Other reading groups include 鈥淓ssayists as Artists: Aesthetics and Ethics鈥 with Dr. Trapedo; 鈥淭he Blueprint of Torah U'Madda鈥 with Straus Center Rabbinic Intern Rabbi Yonatan Kurz; and 鈥淗umanism on Trial: Lewis and Lichtenstein鈥 with Straus Scholar alum Rabbi Ezra Seplowitz.
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