Scholar Yossi Shain, now a special adviser to President Liebowitz, talks about a new Brandeis program that envisions conferences, academic meetings, lectures, residencies, and other academic collaborations relating to Israel.
Too often, people look at Jewish rituals and say, "What does this have to do with anything?" Strassfeld '71, MA '72, said. In a new book, he explains how to make Judaism more relevant to people's lives.
Once an obscure term, tikkun olam is now ubiquitous in American Judaism. Professor Jonathan Krasner explains how the concept has evolved over the millennium.
Holidays and Religious Traditions
Professor Lisa Fishbayn Joffe explores the Jewish history and traditions that value and celebrate motherhood.
A new Brandeis University Press book examines the role Jews played in America's westward expansion, raising troubling questions about their complicity with this country's racist and colonial past.
The latest research into Jewish history and culture by world-class Brandeis faculty
Articles on current events in Israel and the Middle East
Profiles of students and alumni who are leading Jewish organizations and practicing "tikkun olam" or repairing the world
