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Tziporah Pinczower
November 29, 2023
In response to the horrors of Hamas’ massacre on October 7th and the ensuing war in Israel, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought has been outspoken in its defense of the Jewish state, publishing writings and op-eds across several leading publications. Straus Scholar…
Tevi Troy Book
November 28, 2023
In the past month, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought has continued making a significant impact across the media landscape, with multiple new publications, podcasts, lectures, and other contributions. Staff, faculty, and students at the Straus Center have published…
November 27, 2023
When more than 70 YU students  signed on to this year’s Torah Tours®, they expected to do what thousands of volunteers have done since the program’s inception in 1974: invigorate Jewish communities across North America during Simchat Torah  with youthful energy and a love of Torah. Over the years,…
November 27, 2023
On Monday, September 11, students from the S. Daniel Abraham Program at Stern College for Women were privileged to hear from Henry Moss, a remarkable man whose memories span nearly a century. He shared his recollections of prewar Jewish German life and his family's experiences in the lead up to the…
Tocqueville
November 20, 2023
This academic year, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is conducting a new Graduate Fellowship for Aspiring & Current Educators, with a cohort of fourteen students and alumni from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Graduate Program in Advanced Talmud/…
Group rally photo
November 17, 2023
On, Tuesday, Nov. 14, thousands of YU students, faculty, staff, alumni, Roshei Yeshiva and rebbeim travelled to Washington, D.C., to put their values in action at the “March For Israel.” More than 2,500 people, wearing blue YU sweatshirts made for the event, filled 44 buses to make the…
Jenny Rapp
November 13, 2023
  As part of their education and training to be Modern Orthodox leaders of the future, Straus Scholars are encouraged to take summer jobs, internships, and fellowships that allow them to build on their Straus Center studies. Many Scholars spent this past summer participating in programs from a…
Straus Center
November 10, 2023
As part of the Straus Scholars Program of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Straus Scholars participate in weekly reading groups outside the classroom that cover the great texts of the West and Judaism. Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva Universty, is…
Straus Center
November 9, 2023
From November 3rd-4th, 2023, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought held its annual shabbaton at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, a warm and vibrant community in Queens, NY. Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, Director of the Straus Center, also served as scholar-in-…
November 8, 2023
When the Central community committed to this year’s theme of positivity, no one could have imagined what the global events of the semester would bring. But this ethos has been leading the Central community in its initiatives since October 7. “We are here, and our hearts are in Israel,” said Central…

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