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Testimony given before the Committee on Veterans (held jointly with the Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction) on Mental Health Services for Veterans in Response to COVID-19, and Alternative Treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): 11/17/2021 Kimberly Moore testifies…

Dr. Alexander Kaye The inaugural recipient of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Center for Israel Studies’ (CIS) Leon Charney Book Award in Israel Studies is Dr. Alexander Kaye, the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Assistant Professor of Israel Studies in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University…

Leading the way for the Maccabees has been senior Ryan Turell. D3hoops.com released its first Top 25 Men’s Basketball Poll of the season, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, and the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ men’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the country. The Maccabees earned 13 first-place votes. It marks…

Sam Gelman Straus Center Communications and Program Officer Alexis de Tocqueville On Tuesday, Nov. 23, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Ran Halévi, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), for a lecture titled ...

Rabbi Marc Eichenbaum Straus Center Researcher Maimonides On Tuesday evening, Nov. 23, 2021, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Elisha Russ-Fishbane, associate professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University (NÂ鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­), for a lecture on Maimonides…

We’re living in historic times in the wake of the Abraham Accords, with extremely positive developments dramatically changing the Middle East. That’s the message Shaikh Abdulla Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States, shared with a group of 100 Yeshiva ...

Dr. Erica Brown Dr. Ari Berman, President of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­, announced today the appointment of Dr. Erica Brown as Vice Provost of Values and Leadership and inaugural Director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership, founded by Terri and Andrew Herenstein. “We are ...

Samuel Gelman Communications and Program Officer Rabbi Mordechai Schiffman For the fall 2021 semester, Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman, Clinical Assistant Professor of Jewish education, is teaching Psychology and Jewish Thought, which is being offered at Stern College for Women in collaboration with…

Sarah Wapner , Straus Center Impact and Recruitment Officer, has been accepted to the Krauthammer Fellowship, while Sam Gelman, Straus Center Communications and Program Officer, has been accepted into the Machon Siach Graduate Fellowship. Sarah Wapner Sponsored by the Tikvah Fund, the Krauthammer…

By Samuel Gelman Communications and Program Officer Dr. Neil Rogachevsky, associate director and assistant professor at the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, recently published a chapter in Brill’s Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline, a…