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As part of its America 250 celebration, Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C. campus recently welcomed three leading scholars on August 24th for a wide-ranging conversation on how Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish thought each shaped the ideas underlying the American founding. The panel, comprised of…

On August 31, Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, the Deputy Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, and Dr. Shaina Trapedo, Resident Scholar and Recruitment Officer, joined Dr. Mark David Hall to lecture online with Regent University for a discussion exploring the Jewish roots of ...

The Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is honored to welcome Professor Barry Strauss to Yeshiva University for a series of lectures, classroom visits, and special events centered on the Judeo-Roman conflict. One of the world's leading scholars of classical history, Professor Strauss is ...

On July 29th, Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, Senior Advisor to the Provost and Deputy Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, presented alongside David Barton of WallBuilders — a historian and founder of the organization known for ...

On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted its annual high school seminar, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation, at the Moise Safra Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Each year, this selective program invites current high school ...

As Americans marked the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, the Yeshiva University Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought brought YU students on a journey through key sites of the American founding to explore the deep and often overlooked role that Jewish ideas ...

From June 1 to June 4, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought joined Operation Benjamin , the American Battle Monuments Commission, and Operation Levi, an initiative of the German War Graves Commission, for a historic trip to Verdun, France, honoring American…

On Monday, May 4, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Henry Sapoznik in conversation with Straus Center Senior Scholar Dr. Tevi Troy. Sapoznik, a native Yiddish speaker and a five-time Grammy-nominated producer/performer, spoke about his book The ...

Straus Scholar Rebecca Guzman (SCW ‘26) has been awarded a John and Daria Barry Foundation Scholarship, a graduate scholarship for American students attending the University of Oxford who have been nominated by professors of leading universities and academic institutions. The Scholarship is hosted…

On April 13, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in conjunction with the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, hosted Dr. Carl Richard to discuss his book So Help Us, God: American Presidents and the Bible and the role scripture has played in shaping…