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Breaking News Brandeis Suspends Ties With Palestinian Al Quds University Over ‘Nazi’ Rallies
Brandeis University has suspended its partnership with the Palestinian Al-Quds University. Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence made the announcement Monday, saying the university will re-evaluate the relationship in the future. The universities have been sister institutions since 1998. The decision was made in light of recent events at the university, which has campuses in Jerusalem,…
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Opinion Pew Confesses: The News Wasn’t as Bad as It Looked
The good people at Pew Research have come up with a brief, fascinating addendum to their recent survey of Jewish Americans, aiming to clear up some of the furor the survey touched off over the closely related questions of intermarriage, religious identity and overall Jewish population numbers. Some quick background, in case you just got…
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Breaking News Brandeis Scores $5M Gift From Mandel Foundation
The Cleveland-based Mandel Foundation awarded $5.25 million to Brandeis University to endow a professorship in Jewish education research. The suburban Boston university on Monday announced the gift by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation to fund the faculty chair and strengthen the programming at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in…
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Breaking News Slain Boston Bomber Carried Out 9/11 Triple Murder of Jews, Prosecutors Say
Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took part in a 2011 triple murder — including two Jewish victims — in a nearby suburb, according to a Chechen immigrant who was himself killed when approached by investigators for questioning, federal prosecutors said on Monday in newly filed court papers. Ibragim Todashev, 27, who has been…
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Breaking News Brandeis Wins Apology From Babson for ‘Happy Holocaust’ Signs
Babson College formally apologized to Brandeis University for the anti-Semitic behavior of its men’s soccer team 35 years ago. Babson President Len Schlesinger delivered an official apology on Wednesday at the ADL New England headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League, according to Boston.com., and announced that the college is creating a partnership with the ADL aimed…
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The Schmooze The Literature Professor Who Was Duped by An Anti-Semite
Born in the Bronx to a Jewish family, Milton Hindus (1916-1998) became professor of literature at Brandeis University. Although Hindus published on subjects from poet Charles Reznikoff to the Lower East Side, he is mostly remembered for more sinister fare. In the 1930s, Hindus became a fan of the ferociously anti-Semitic French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s…
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Opinion U.S. Groups Raise $40 Million for Settlements
American Jewish not-for-profits raised $40 million for Israeli settlements in 2007, about the same amount they raised for progressive groups in Israel, a new Brandeis University study shows. The study, released April 27, is the first comprehensive study of the rapidly growing field of Israel-focused “American Friends” organizations, U.S.-based not-for-profits that send funds to Israeli…
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Life Israeli Politics at Brandeis University
For a period of a few weeks the Jewish community followed the events of Israel Peace Week and Israel Apartheid Week at my school, Brandeis University. Looking back, there seems to have been a large disconnect between the amount of attention the events received in the Jewish press and the reality that exists on my…
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