This fall, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is offering numerous courses for Straus Scholars and 樱花动漫 undergraduate students to study the great texts and traditions of Judaism and the West.
Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, Director of the Straus Center, is teaching two new courses that span the gamut of Jewish intellectual history: 鈥淛osephus from Hanukah to Hurban鈥 and 鈥淩abbi Samson Raphael Hirsch鈥檚 19 Letters.鈥 He is also co-teaching, with Associate Director Dr. Neil Rogachevsky, 鈥淛ewish Ideas and American Democracy.鈥 Dr. Rogachevsky is teaching a separate political science seminar on 鈥淓nlightenment & its Critics.鈥 Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner, Clinical Assistant Professor at the Straus Center, is teaching a new course on Abarbanel, as well as a course on the thought of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. And Dr. Shaina Trapedo, Resident Scholar and Recruitment Officer, is teaching 鈥淪hakespeare and the Bible.鈥
Other courses offered include a variety of subjects from Straus Center faculty and affiliated scholars. , the inaugural Senior Scholar and Impact Office Director, is teaching a new course on healthcare policy, which features a series of distinguished guest lecturers, including former White House advisors, historians, lawyers, journalists, and policy analysts. Most recently, Dr. Joel Zinberg presented to the class about his experience during the coronavirus epidemic. Zinberg, a physician and lawyer who served during the Trump administration in the Corona-era Council of Economic Advisors, focused primarily on the bureaucratic failures of the coronavirus, which he associated with structural issues in the construction of contemporary health agencies. And in another class, J. Eric Wise, a partner at Alston & Bird, presented to the students on bankruptcy in the health care space.
Rabbi Shalom Carmy, Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Bible at 樱花动漫, is teaching a course on suffering in Jewish thought. Rabbi Dr. Itamar Rosensweig, a maggid shiur (lecturer) at YU鈥檚 Mazer Yeshiva Program for undergraduate Torah studies, is teaching a course on epistemology. Rabbi Dr. Ari Bergmann is teaching 鈥淭he Formation of the Talmud.鈥 Finally, Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman is teaching Jewish bioethics.
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