Yeshiva University
Skip past mobile menu to footer
YU News
Latest News
Featured News
In the fall 2026 semester, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is offering numerous courses for Straus Scholars and Yeshiva University students to study the great texts, enduring ideas, and crucial traditions of Judaism and the West. Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, the…
At a YU Libraries Present book talk, Special Collections curator Shulamith Berger and Jai Zion discussed their book, The Ritz with a Shvitz, chronicling the rise and fall of a lavish 1920s Lower East Side Jewish hotel brought down by political corruption.
On October 22, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in partnership with the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program, welcomed Dr. Shilo Brooks for a lunchtime conversation on how books can change one’s life. Dr. Brooks is the President and CEO of the George W. Bush…
Tiferet Strulowitz (SCW '27) reflects on her summer internship with Congresswoman Nellie Pou (NJ-9). This summer, I had the opportunity to intern in the Washington, D.C. office of my representative, Congresswoman Nellie Pou. As a political science student, I came into the internship with an…
Straus Scholar Tzipora Einbinder (SCW '28) reflects on her internship conducting research at Hadassah Hospital and learning at Nishmat. What were the main tasks you undertook during your internship or fellowship? My internship focused on gaining experience in a biological research setting at ...
Sacks-Herenstein Scholar Ayelet (Friedman) Meisels (SCW '26) reflects on her internship at The Tell Institute. What were the main tasks you undertook during your internship or fellowship? As an intern at the Tell Institute, my primary responsibilities included researching to ensure historical ...
Straus Scholar Yaakov Feldman (YC '29) reflects on his research internship with Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg of Tel Aviv University. What were the main tasks you undertook during your internship or fellowship? My main focus was a close read of halachic works from the period of the early Acharonim ...
On October 21st, the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought’s Senior Scholar and Impact Office Director Dr. Tevi Troy introduced Tablet Magazine’s Special Features Editor Jacob Siegel, author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, and invited him to explain the book’s…
The Wurzweiler School of Social Work is pleased to announce that Ph.D. student, Allysha Bryant, has received the CSWE MFP Doctoral fellowship. In existence for over 50 years, the fellowship is designed to increase the numbers of doctoral-trained social workers to address the mental health and/or ...