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As part of its America 250 celebration, Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C. campus recently welcomed three leading scholars on August 24th for a wide-ranging conversation on how Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish thought each shaped the ideas underlying the American founding. The panel, comprised of…

On August 31, Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, the Deputy Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, and Dr. Shaina Trapedo, Resident Scholar and Recruitment Officer, joined Dr. Mark David Hall to lecture online with Regent University for a discussion exploring the Jewish roots of ...

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At the Katz School's 2026 Graduate Computer Science and Engineering Research Forum, Jelidah Nayingwa, a student in the Katz School's M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, presented research showing how AI can turn plain English questions into the code needed to retrieve information from hospital…

At the 2026 Symposium on Science, Technology and Health, Nicole Aziz, a student in the Katz School's M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology program, presented research that examines whether whispering truly harms the voice more than normal speech, challenging a long-standing recommendation in voice…

The Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is honored to welcome Professor Barry Strauss to ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ for a series of lectures, classroom visits, and special events centered on the Judeo-Roman conflict. One of the world's leading scholars of classical history, Professor Strauss is ...

On July 29th, Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, Senior Advisor to the Provost and Deputy Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, presented alongside David Barton of WallBuilders — a historian and founder of the organization known for ...

On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted its annual high school seminar, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation, at the Moise Safra Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Each year, this selective program invites current high school ...

As Americans marked the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought brought YU students on a journey through key sites of the American founding to explore the deep and often overlooked role that Jewish ideas ...