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The Straus Center is offering many courses for the spring 2022 semester.

By Sam Gelman Straus Center Communications and Program Officer For spring 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in collaboration with and , is offering numerous courses for Straus Scholars and 麻豆传媒映画 undergraduate students to study the great texts and traditions of the West and Judaism. On the Beren campus, Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner is teaching Philosophy of Maimonides, while Dr. Neil Rogachevsky is offering Great Political Thinkers. Straus Center Director Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik is teaching two courses downtown: Rabbis and Lords: The Jews of England and The Haggadah: A Classic of Jewish Political Thought. Finally, Dr. Shaina Trapedo will be offering a new course on Tehilim and the Human Condition. 鈥淲hen my students fret over knowing what they want to say but not how to say it, I assure them they are in good company,鈥� said Dr. Trapedo. 鈥淔or centuries, poets, leaders, and Nobel Prize winners have relied on verses from the Psalms to convey their lament, intent, and aspirations. Together we will examine Sefer 罢别丑颈濒濒颈尘鈥�s unique capacity to furnish wisdom and inspire literary, oratorial efficacy, and excellence. I anticipate that together we will approach our study of the Psalms like 鈥榯he mighty rejoicing to run the course鈥� (Tehilim 19:6).鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 important for every thoughtful person, and especially for every student of politics and philosophy, to have some exposure to the works of thinkers in the Western tradition like Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli,鈥� added Dr. Rogachevsky. 鈥淭he study of these works helps students think about perennial questions of human life as well as the world around them today.鈥� One the Wilf Campus, Dr. Rogachevsky is also offering Great Political Thinkers, while Rabbi Shalom Carmy is bringing back his Character and Ethics course. Rabbi Dr. Lerner is bringing his very popular Stern College class on the Thought of Rabbi Sacks to Yeshiva College and is also co-teaching Milton and Religion with Dr. David Lavinsky of the English department. 鈥淚n an age of profound polarization, and the combination of decadence, doubt, and disorientation, Rabbi Sacks鈥� writings in the realms of theology, ethics, and politics, could not be more urgent or apt,鈥� Rabbi Dr. Lerner noted. 鈥淣ot only will we seek to secure the legacy of an inimitable thinker for the future, but we will explore his thought in a bid to address so many of the questions that we face today.鈥� The Straus Center is also offering Athens and Jerusalem, which compares and contrasts the thinkers of classical antiquity and Judaism, through its Graduate Certificate in Political and Social Thought. Co-taught by Dr. Rogachevsky and Rabbi Dr. Soloveichik, the class is open to Beren and Wilf campus juniors and seniors. You can learn more about the Straus Center by signing up for our newsletter . Be sure to also like us on , follow us on  and  and connect with us on .