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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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 Brandeis U. Press and a historian split over how to talk about Jews and white supremacy
Marc Dollinger’s book, “Black Power, Jewish Politics,” sold more than expected in this year of racial reckoning, and by September, there were only 150 copies left. Since the police killing of George Floyd in May, Dollinger and his book have been in high demand in liberal Jewish communities grappling with structural racism. Dollinger, a historian…
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Fast Forward Brandeis targeted by bomb threat
(JTA) – Brandeis University was the target of a bomb threat on Thursday, less than a week before classes for the fall semester are set to begin. An alert was sent through the Boston-area university’s alert system at 10:55 a.m. advising those on campus to seek shelter and those off campus to remain there. An…
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Fast Forward Two Brandeis Students Stabbed, 16-Year-Old ‘Covered In Blood’ Arrested
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in connection to the stabbing of two Brandeis University graduate students early Monday morning, the Boston Herald reported. Police in Waltham, Massachusetts responded at around 1:37 a.m. to a report of a stabbing inside a home a block away from campus. They discovered the two female students, who had been…
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Fast Forward Pictures of Brandeis Students, Professors Uploaded To White Nationalist Website
(JTA) — Photos of several students and professors from Brandeis University, which has Jewish roots, were posted to a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website. The photos were posted on the Vanguard News Network Forum, in a thread that mocked Jews’ for their appearance, the Associated Press reported. There are hundreds of other images posted in…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Dumps Officials After Report On Abusive Basketball Coach
Four months after Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach due to allegations of verbal abuse and racial discrimination, the university has accepted the resignation of one top official and demoted two others who were supposed to supervise him, Deadspin reported. Vice president of student affairs Sheryl Sousa resigned, and athletic director Lynn Dempsey and…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Basketball Coach Called Student ‘Jew Boy’
Brandeis University fired head basketball coach Brian Meehan last week, citing multiple complaints about racial discrimination from players dating back years. Now new reports say the complaints date back five years — and he also allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks to a student manager on the team, Deadspin reported. The former student manager, Phil Keisman, told…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Fires Basketball Coach Over Racial Harassment Complaints
Updated 7:00 p.m. Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach on Thursday after receiving complaints alleging what the school called “preferential and discriminatory treatment, unprofessional behavior, and racially biased harassment.” University president Ronald Liebowitz announced the firing of coach Brian Meehan move in a Facebook post that did not once mention Meehan’s name. Meehan has…
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