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The Straus Center is proud to announce the incoming class of ten Straus Scholars who will form the seventh cohort of the Straus Scholars Program.
This fall, the Straus Center welcomes three new members to its team. Dr. Tevi Troy joins as the inaugural Senior Scholar & Impact Office Director, Yisroel Ben-Porat serves as the new Programming & Communications Officer, and Sarah Wapner returns as the new Impact Officer.
This coming fall semester, Dr. Tevi Troy will join the Straus Center as the inaugural Senior Scholar & Impact Office Director.
On June 20 and June 22, 2023, the Straus Center hosted its annual summer seminars for high school students, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation.
On June 16th, 2023, fellows of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa joined the Straus Center for a lecture on the history of Modern Orthodoxy and ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵÎÛ’s role as America’s premier institution for Jewish education.
Straus Center Director Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik’s new book, Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship, explores models of Jewish leadership throughout history.
In Spring 2023, Rabbi Shalom Carmy, Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Bible at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵÎÛ and renowned scholar of Jewish thought, taught a Straus Center course on the philosophy of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook.
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern reviews Bezalel Naor's "Souls in the World of Chaos."
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern reviews Jeremy Brown's "The Eleventh Plague".
On March 26th, 2023, Straus Scholar Yaakov Willner (YC ’25) was invited to present on his paper The Eichmann Trial and Rousseau’s Social Contract at the eighth annual Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference at the University of Chicago.