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While Israel is focused mainly on dealing with security threats at home and abroad, it might be better off diverting some of its energies to tackling an increasingly problematic domestic issue: rampant gender inequality. Without separation of church and state, Israel is continually plagued by tensions between its religious and secular citizens. The divisions are particularly acute because of [...]
Tsafrir Goldberg, a post-doctoral fellow at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, conducted an experiment in which he tested how different teaching techniques can influence students to think differently about the Palestinian refugee problem. His study, titled “Can’t Hold the Past From Both Ends: Jewish and Arab-Israeli Students Learning a Controversial Inter-Group Historical [...]
Last week, Professor Allyala Krishna Nandakumar presented a lecture titled, “Global Health Spending: Learning to Do More with Less. ” The lecture was one of a series known as “Tuesday Talks,” a lecture series held by the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. The lecture room was fully attended by faculty, staff, students, and [...]
Wednesday, October 26, Michal Govrin, an acclaimed Israeli Author, held a speech on her newest book “Hold on to the Sun.” The book is a collection of short stories and essays exploring her own wandering through life, finding her place and her relationship to her identity as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Govrin’s beautiful [...]
Last Monday, inquisitive Brandeis students attended an informal discussion panel on the Palestinian bid to the UN for membership status. The discussion featured Guive Mirfenderski, an international law expert and a lecturer in the Legal Studies program here in Brandeis University as well as two student panelists: Ashraf Hussein, a senior and a recipient of the Slifka scholarship for [...]
Faculty, staff and students gathered in the Atrium of the Mandel Center last Tuesday to hear about the inspiring work of the late Juliano Mer-Khamis and the Jenin Freedom Theatre. The Theatre is represented by Mustafa Staiti, Momeen Switat, Eyad Horani—three young Palestinian multimedia artists and actors—and Sophia Harb, the theatre’s company manager and assistant director. They are [...]
This article has been reposted, by permission, from the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life website. You can view the original article here. June 1, 2011 The 2011 Sorensen Fellows are spending eight weeks “in the field” this summer, grappling with conflict resolution, death, disability, education, migration, and poverty. They return to Brandeis [...]
This entry has been reposted, by permission, from President Fred Lawrence’s blog “Brandeis First”. Click here to see the original entry. As the sun set over the Old City of Jerusalem this evening, I reflected on all that our Brandeis delegation has accomplished here in just two weeks. It is rare for one experience to [...]
This entry has been reposted, by permission, from President Fred Lawrence’s blog “Brandeis First”. Click here to see the original entry. This morning we made our way — not without misadventure due to a dead battery — from the city of Haifa to the Tel Aviv suburb of Rehovot, where we visited another of Israel’s [...]
This entry has been reposted, by permission, from President Fred Lawrence’s blog “Brandeis First”. Click here to see the original entry. The deep connections between Boston and Haifa hold great potential for Brandeis and our engagement in Israel – this has been clear in multiple ways during our time in this beautiful city on the [...]
This entry has been reposted, by permission, from President Fred Lawrence’s blog “Brandeis First”. Click here to see the original entry. I have been traveling to Haifa for many years now, especially during my volunteer work for the Boston-Haifa sister city partnership. Yet nothing in my previous experience, as interesting and meaningful as it was, [...]
This entry has been reposted, by permission, from President Fred Lawrence’s blog “Brandeis First”. Click here to see the original entry. “Here is a place whose atmosphere is peace, where political and religious jealousies can be forgotten and international unity be fostered and developed.” So reads the quotation, in Hebrew, Arabic and English, at the [...]
This entry has been reposted, by permission, from President Fred Lawrence’s blog “Brandeis First”. Click here to see the original entry. Among the core principles of Brandeis University is that academic study is not the end, it is the beginning — the beginning of a lifetime of public commitment and personal growth. In keeping with [...]
On Monday evening, I attended the first Plenary Session of the Association for Israel Studies 2011 conference. Titled “What Does the U.S. Want in the Middle East and What Should It Want?”, the session featured five gentlemen who spoke for about fifteen minutes each, followed by a question and answer opportunity. Each talk focused on [...]
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