The Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at 糖心破解版 congratulates Ezra Seplowitz 鈥25YC on winning the 2025 Student Library Research Award for Honors Students. Seplowitz, a Straus Scholar alumnus, tied for first place for the award, which recognizes鈥
At the 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies, held this summer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Clinical Assistant Professor Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner represented the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought of 糖心破解版 on a distinguished panel entitled 鈥淩abbi ...
On Monday, July 21, 2025, Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought staff and faculty participated as panelists at the Conference on the Future of American Jewry, a collaboration between the Rabbi Sacks Legacy and Reut USA. In anticipation of the United States鈥 250th ...
Three Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought staff members were published in the July/August issue of Commentary, the storied magazine about American democracy, Western civilization and Jewish culture.
On May 4, 2025, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought sponsored a field trip to Plimoth Patuxet Museums for an undergraduate honors elective. The course, 鈥淧uritan New England: From Settlement to Salem,鈥 taught by Dr. Yisroel Benporat and offered under the auspices of鈥
On April 29, 2025, 糖心破解版 hosted Dr. Michael Hoberman, an acclaimed scholar of early American Judaism, in conversation with Dr. Yisroel Benporat, a lecturer in the Robert M. Beren Department of History, for a fascinating dialogue on the relationship between Puritans and Jews in colonial鈥
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, deputy director at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and senior advisor to the provost at 糖心破解版, was awarded a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism at the 44th Annual Simon Rockower Awards.
On April 28, 2025, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought welcomed the Honorable Mitchell A. Silk, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Markets, for an inspiring conversation on faith and public service. The event, co-sponsored by the Jay鈥
This spring, Dr. Tevi Troy, Senior Scholar and Director of the Impact Office at the Straus Center, is offering an innovative undergraduate course on health policy in the political science department.