Maya Shwayder
By Maya Shwayder
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Fast Forward Brandeis reaches agreement with university president, ending public spat
Brandeis has extended the contact of President Ron Liebowitz for another five-year term, the university confirmed today. The news ends a dust-up between Liebowitz and the Board over his tenure and ensures continuity as the university navigates the new academic world brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The board had originally only offered Liebowitz a…
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News ‘A lot of work to do’: A Black female rabbi on the anti-racist progress the Jewish community has, and hasn’t, made
Rav Tiferet Berenbaum is a busy woman these days, but she will absolutely and happily find time to slot you in for a phone call while she runs out to get coffee for herself and her fellow rabbis. The pandemic has not slowed her duties: in addition to her usual work as a clergy member…
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News What on earth is happening at Brandeis?
Most institutions of higher learning will have to weather a certain number of scandals and bad press. These stories are usually balanced with coverage of great faculty discoveries, inspiring student stories, or big new donations for the next new student center or auditorium. Brandeis University, founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by…
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News Amid rancor and recrimination, Brandeis University president rejects contract
In an escalating row with Brandeis University, President Ron Liebowitz released a statement on Tuesday announcing that he would not accept an offer from the university’s Board of Trustees for a one-year contract. The dispute appears to be over missed fundraising targets over the past year. Liebowitz, who joined Brandeis in 2016 after serving as…
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News A Tufts student government fight shows what’s wrong with the Israel-Palestine debate
Those who’ve paid attention to Jewish media world in the past week have seen the dramatic build up and sudden dissipation of the story about Tufts University junior Max Price, an outspoken pro-Israel member of the student government, and the Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine group. Price became the cause celebre du jour for…
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Life Breakin Up by Text Is Un-Jewish
Thinkstock Texting is now the most popular way to break up with one’s partner, at least according to XOJane. Why? “It’s less awkward,” survey respondents said. My fellow millennials, let’s get one thing straight. Whipping off a short digital note with one hand and half a brain to someone with whom you’ve been recently and…
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The Schmooze Your Jewish Boyfriend Adam Brody Gets Engaged
After ten months of dating, “O.C.” star Adam Brody is engaged to “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester, Radar Online reported on Tuesday. That sound you hear is every single Jewish girl everywhere in the world quietly sobbing into her hair straightener. Brody, 33, and Meester, 27, were first romantically connected while filming “The Oranges” in…
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News Jewish Tycoons William Ackman and Dan Loeb in Feud Over Herbalife
It’s a financial dogfight for the ages. When billionaire investor and CEO of Pershing Square Capital hedge fund William Ackman short-sold $1 billion in stock of Herbalife, the Los Angeles-based nutrition company, he drew the ire not just of the company, but of other fellow hedge funders who saw Ackman as taking his legendary arrogance…
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