JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
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…
Sari Nusseibeh in his office at Al-Quds university / Haaretz Open Letter to Brandeis President Dear President Lawrence: By this letter I am resigning from the advisory board of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis. While I appreciate that you were willing to reappoint me for another term, I do…
Courtesy of Yonathan & Masha Films Yonathan and Masha Zur’s recent documentary “Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams,” screening May 17 at the New York Israel Film Festival, expertly circles around the question: What is the place of politics in literature, and vice versa? For Oz, the two cannot be disentangled. “To write what they…
