This is the Forward’s coverage of Brandeis University, a secular university sponsored by the Jewish community in Waltham, Massachusetts, outside Boston.
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Fast Forward New Brandeis Textbook Offers Even-Handed Look at Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A textbook on the Arab-Israeli conflict co-authored by a Palestinian, an Israeli and an Egyptian has been published. The project was a seven-year undertaking by the founding scholars of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. “Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East” is a collaboration of Shai Feldman,…
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Fast Forward Brandeis President Vows To Keep Talking to Palestinian Sister College
Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence said he would reach out to the president of Al-Quds University in the wake of the U.S. school suspending relations between the two institutions over an Islamic Jihad rally. In a statement posted Friday on the Brandeis website, Lawrence said the decision to suspend relations with Al-Quds University “was taken…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Retired President Jehuda Reinharz Rakes in $500K Salary
In the three years since Brandeis University president Jehuda Reinharz stepped down from his office, he has been receiving a generous annual salary of up to $500,000, The Boston Globe reported. The Globe quoted Gordon Fellman, a sociology professor at Brandeis, who said that there was “puzzlement from faculty why he gets paid at all.”…
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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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