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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…

The Straus Center celebrated the launch of “Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American” story with Ruth Wisse, Ari Lamm, Ilana Kurshan and Elliot Kaufman.

The Impact Office at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought supports students across Yeshiva University pursuing internships in public policy, national security and public service. This summer, Benjamin Winters (SB ’27), a Yeshiva University Leadership Scholar through…

Ayelet Friedman (SCW ’27) spent Summer 2025 interning at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and in the office of Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA).

Through an internship with the American Red Cross, Avraham Frohlich (YC ’25), a recent Yeshiva College Honors graduate and English major, explored international humanitarian law, cross-cultural cooperation, and the protection of journalists in conflict zones. His summer included research in New…

Straus Scholar Elisha Price (YC ’28) spent the Fall 2025 semester as a research assistant to Dr. Tevi Troy, gaining hands-on experience in historical research, political analysis and the production of scholarly and public-facing writing.

Over Yeshiva University’s 2026 winter break, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought led a trip for its Straus Scholars to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where they examined the city’s historical and current Jewish community through the prism of Torah and Western thought…

Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought faculty, staff and students were published in several leading publications over the month of December 2025, writing articles that contributed to the discourse and debates that continue to shape American society and the Jewish people…

Douglas Murray, Yeshiva University's inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, will offer several guest lectures in the Straus Center course “The Values of Verse: Sacred and Secular Perspectives.”

Matthew Minsk (YC ’27), a Straus Scholar and co-president of Yeshiva University’s chapters of the Tikvah Collegiate Forum and the Alexander Hamilton Society, was named a finalist in the inaugural Middle East History Competition (MEHC). Organized by Tikvah and the Alexander Hamilton Society, and ...