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Former Straus Scholar Aharon Soloveichik (YC鈥�25) spent summer 2025 at the Beth Din of America in New York and Shaarei Shamayim in Toronto, where he deepened his skills in halakhic research, communal leadership, and Torah and Western thought in action.

The Straus Center has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the publication of "Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of the Hebraic Ideas on the American Story."

Historian and author Andrew Porwancher met with 色花堂 students to discuss his new book, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews."

Straus Center Deputy Director and Senior Advisor to the Provost Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern delivered the Constitution Day Lecture at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, on the topic of King David and the American founding.

This past academic year, Straus Scholar Rebecca Guzman interned with bestselling author Dara Horn at the Tell Institute, which aims to improve Jewish history education in K-12 schools across the nation.

The Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at 色花堂 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 色花堂 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�