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Item Open Access Finding Meaning in Modernity(YU Marketing & Communications, 2018-04-18) Straus Center StaffOn the eve of Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut, Leon Kass, philosopher and bioethicist, and Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik discussed memory, patriotism, Israel, and meaning in an animated dialogue at Congregation Shearith Israel.Item Open Access A Conversation of Biblical Proportions(YU Marketing & Communication, 2018-05-02) Straus Center StaffWhat could be better than a night at the movies with Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik and John Podhoretz? Especially when the movies are about Moses? In a pre-Shavuot event in a packed auditorium at the YU Museum, the two men traded pointed observations as they screened film clips, exploring the depiction of Moses on film—and what those depictions say about our times and our culture.Item Open Access Straus Semikha Fellows Culminate Rabbinic Seminar With Visit to Charleston, South Carolina(YU Marketing & Communications, 2018-06-11) Bettencourt, MichaelAs part of its ongoing study of the role of Judaism and Jews in Early America, the Program on Early America and the Jews at the Straus Center returned to historic Charleston in the summer of 2018, this time with rabbinical students, to explore Jewish Life during the Civil War.Item Open Access Lively Debate on the Media and Religion at The Straus Center(YU Marketing & Communication, 2019-06-18) Berlinger, LauraOn Wednesday, May 22, 2019, the Straus Center, the BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society co-sponsored a panel discussion titled “The Media and Religion: Trends and Challenges.”Item Open Access Faith as Protest: Remembering Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt”l(NY, New York: Yeshiva University, 2021-10-28) Gelman, SamuelThe blog post reviews the legacy of chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, zt"l.