New York–Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought presents a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will and New York University President John Sexton on “Baseball, Tradition, and God” on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at Shenk Community Shul, 560 West 185th Street, New York City. The discussion, moderated by Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center, will begin at 7 p.m.

Will is one of the country’s most widely read political columnists, as well as its foremost conservative voice. His popular twice-weekly column for The Washington Post syndicate reaches nearly 475 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe. He appears regularly on FOX News’s daytime and prime-time programming and as a contributing analyst with ABC News and ABC’s This Week. Will is the author of New York Times Bestsellers Bunts (1999) and Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (1991). His latest book, A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, was published in March 2014.

President Sexton, the 15th President of New York University, is also the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School’s Dean Emeritus. Sexton, who holds an honorary degree from Yeshiva University, among many other universities, is an author of numerous books, including his latest, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, published in March 2013.

The Straus Center’s mission is to help develop Jewish thinkers and wisdom-seeking Jews by deepening their education in the best of the Jewish tradition, by exposing them to the richness of human knowledge and insight from across the ages, and by confronting them with the great moral, philosophical, and theological questions of our age.

The event is free and open to the public. Will’s book, A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, and Sexton’s book, Baseball as a Road to God, will both be available for sale. To RSVP, please email [email protected].