Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation
Tag: Straus Center
“Gather Around and I Will Tell You”: Glikl of Hameln and Her Ethical Will
Adapted from the Course Matriarchs and Memoirs
Be the Light
On Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020—a week before Chanukah—the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted a tour de force talk for undergraduate students by Dr. Erica Brown ’88S, prolific scholar, author and director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at George Washington University, on “What Chanukah Teaches Us […]
A New Approach to Religious Freedom
A Deeper Look at American Thinking About Religion and Law
Having an Impact as a Straus Scholar
Noam Josse and the Alexander Hamilton Society
Straus Center Course Spotlight: Philosophy of Law
Course Explores the Nature, Purpose, and Merits of Law
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends”: Henry V and Kingship
A Study of the Torah’s Influence on William Shakespeare
Judah Ibn Tibbon’s Ethical Will
Part of Yeshiva College’s Spiritual Autobiographies Course
Straus Center Course Spotlight: Spiritual Autobiographies
A New Straus Center Course
Straus Center Class Spotlight: The Architecture of Election
Dr. Joseph Angel on Temple Architecture in Judaism and Western Thought