Historian and author Andrew Porwancher met with YU 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.

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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’ 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, “Puritan New England: From Settlement to Salem,” taught by Dr. Yisroel Benporat and offered under the auspices of…

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