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Straus Scholar Elisha Price (YC ’28) spent the Fall 2025 semester as a research assistant to Dr. Tevi Troy, gaining hands-on experience in historical research, political analysis and the production of scholarly and public-facing writing.

Over �鶹��ýӳ��’s 2026 winter break, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought led a trip for its Straus Scholars to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where they examined the city’s historical and current Jewish community through the prism of Torah and Western thought…

Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought faculty, staff and students were published in several leading publications over the month of December 2025, writing articles that contributed to the discourse and debates that continue to shape American society and the Jewish people…

Douglas Murray, �鶹��ýӳ��'s inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, will offer several guest lectures in the Straus Center course “The Values of Verse: Sacred and Secular Perspectives.”

Matthew Minsk (YC ’27), a Straus Scholar and co-president of �鶹��ýӳ��’s chapters of the Tikvah Collegiate Forum and the Alexander Hamilton Society, was named a finalist in the inaugural Middle East History Competition (MEHC). Organized by Tikvah and the Alexander Hamilton Society, and ...

Straus Scholar Tamara Yeshurun (SCW ’26) spent Summer 2025 assisting acclaimed Israeli journalist Amit Segal with his English-language newsletter and social media outreach.

Rikki Zagelbaum (SCW ‘26) spent her summer at two think tanks—the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) in Israel and the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) in Washington, D.C.

Recent Straus Scholars graduate Josh Shapiro (YC ’25) spent his summer moving between Washington policy seminars, comparative religious arbitration research and advanced legal theory—an intensive capstone to his undergraduate humanities education before heading to Israel to write for startups.

In Summer 2025, the Impact Office at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought provided grants to several students with internships in politics, publishing, journalism, and Jewish life, fostering a new generation of leaders dedicated to both public service and Jewish ...

Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought faculty, staff and students were published in several leading publications over the month of December 2025, writing articles that contributed to the discourse and debates that continue to shape American society and the Jewish people…