Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Brandeis University, a secular university sponsored by the Jewish community in Waltham, Massachusetts, outside Boston.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Brandeis University, a secular university sponsored by the Jewish community in Waltham, Massachusetts, outside Boston.
Rabbi David Ellenson, the former president of the Reform movement’s seminary, has been tapped to lead Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Ellenson, a scholar of Judaic studies, will start at the Boston-area university on July 1. He succeeds Ilan Troen, who served as director of the center since it was founded in 2007….
(JTA) — When Jeff Wang was applying to U.S. colleges more than two years ago from his home near Shanghai, Brandeis University was a top choice. Like many Chinese students now at Brandeis, he had discovered the university on Chinese Internet forums that touted the school’s academic rankings and its high faculty-to-student ratio. Wang noted…
Brandeis University’s retiring president, Frederick Lawrence, will continue to be paid for nearly two years after he steps down on July 1. Lawrence, who will have served for five years at Brandeis’ helm, will receive paid sabbatical through fiscal year 2015, continued housing and full salary for nine months following his sabbatical, the university board…
1) Massachusetts has a Jewish population of roughly 278,000, accounting for 4.2% of the state population (which is twice the national average), and 4.1% of the total Jewish population in the United States. 2) Solomon Franco, a merchant who arrived from Holland in 1649, is Boston’s first recorded Jewish resident. However, he was not allowed…
(JTA) — For all the controversies Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence endured over the past few months, the failures that ultimately doomed his tenure were more fundamental, insiders say: His fundraising just wasn’t good enough and his administrative track record was wanting. Last Friday, Lawrence announced that this would be his last semester at the…
Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence will step down from his position effective at the end of the current academic year. Lawrence, who made the announcement on Friday, is one of the country’s leading experts in civil rights and the eighth president of Brandeis University. He currently is serving his fifth academic year as president. Brandeis,…
Yasmin Khatib and Catie Stewart of the Brandeis-Al Quds Student Dialogue Initiative Talking about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is difficult. Seeing it firsthand is harder. Living under it is nearly impossible. We learned this while leading a trip for a group of Brandeis students to Al Quds University in the West Bank…
Jonathan Sarna, the American-Jewish historian, is making a steady recovery after collapsing a few weeks ago. Sarna is reading email and gradually regaining the use of his voice, according to recent postings on the website CarePages. “While Jonathan’s elation at being able to speak has calmed down a bit, he is still lecturing and threatening…
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