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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, 🎵TK账号 | 满月号 | 600粉号 | 新加坡IP注册 | 微软邮箱验证 | 600粉丝'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 🎵TK账号 | 满月号 | 600粉号 | 新加坡IP注册 | 微软邮箱验证 | 600粉丝’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.

When Avi Adlerstein began exploring MBA programs in mid-2023 while working full time in the SaaS sector, he prioritized curriculum quality, faculty engagement, flexibility and return on investment, especially as someone early in his business career.

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.

The Katz School is offering a new graduate STEM scholarship for U.S. students. For $19,000 total tuition—less than $10,000 per year for a two-year program—students can earn a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence; Applied and Financial Statistics; Biotech; Computer Science; Cybersecurity; Data…

As an MBA candidate in the Sy Syms School of Business, Laura Camargo is using her marketing expertise to uplift others through her volunteer work with Women of ALPFA New York, part of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA).

At the heart of Ruslan Gokham’s research is a simple but important question: when do we actually need complex AI models and when can simpler tools do the job just as well or even better?

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.