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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 Yeshiva University’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 Yeshiva University 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.

On May 3rd, 2023, the Straus Center and the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program hosted Dr. Marc B. Shapiro, a renowned scholar of Jewish history, theology, philosophy and Jewish literature.

On May 7, 2023, students and faculty of the Straus Center convened for the Straus Scholars Program's Closing Dinner at Congregation Shearith Israel in New York.

As the Spring 2023 semester wraps up and the summer approaches, Straus Scholars at Yeshiva University are poised to begin jobs, internships and fellowships in political science, law, philosophy and Jewish studies.

YU News profiles Straus Scholar Natan Ehrenreich, who has held prestigious summer fellowships at the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Hertog Foundation.