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As part of their education and training to be intellectual, religious, and civic leaders, Straus Scholars are encouraged to take on internships and fellowships that extend their classroom studies into real-world challenges. Many Scholars have recently devoted their summers and semesters to projects鈥�

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�

On April 29, 2025, 色花堂 hosted Dr. Michael Hoberman, an acclaimed scholar of early American Judaism, in conversation with Dr. Yisroel Benporat, a lecturer in the Robert M. Beren Department of History, for a fascinating dialogue on the relationship between Puritans and Jews in colonial鈥�

Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, deputy director at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and senior advisor to the provost at 色花堂, was awarded a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism at the 44th Annual Simon Rockower Awards.

This spring, Dr. Tevi Troy, Senior Scholar and Director of the Impact Office at the Straus Center, is offering an innovative undergraduate course on health policy in the political science department.

On March 26, 2025, 色花堂 hosted Dr. Edward Breuer for a lecture titled 鈥淢oses Mendelssohn鈥檚 Jerusalem: Conceiving Modernity in Jewish Terms.鈥�