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Professor Emeritus Benjamin Ravid (NEJS) delivered the 47th annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture Wednesday. Ravid, Rawidowicz’s son, spoke about the problems, stereotypes and mentality associated with Jewish ghettos, from the Middle Ages to today. Ravid, who was chosen for this year’s lecture in part to recognize his last semester as a professor, described the shifting […]
Student Union President Andy Hogan ’11 promised a fresh start to student government with planned reforms in his second State of the Union address to the student body, faculty and administration Tuesday. Hogan also cited new inroads in student involvement with university decision-making “concerning over-crowding” in his address. Hogan described this year’s Constitutional Review Committee […]
Fundraising for the Brandeis Haiti Relief Effort (BHRE) continued this week, getting Brandeis even closer to the goal of $25,000. BHRE has tentatively raised more than twenty thousand dollars, but exact figures are still being determined. Money raised will be donated to Hope for Haiti, Partners in Health and Empowerment Through Education camp, a camp […]
Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA, discussed the often-neglected stories of Soviet territories occupied by the Nazis during World War II and the Nuremburg trials during a lecture Wednesday in Hassenfeld Conference Center. Rubenstein, the author of “The Unknown Black Book,” which examines the stories of Jews who survived German attacks on […]
The false choice between a nation’s environmentalism and economy, as well as the effects of emissions control on the global climate conditon were the focus of a lecture, on Monday given by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Kristen Taddonio. Taddonio, who also is the head of sales and marketing for the ENERGY STAR appliance program […]
If you attend college, chances are you’ve heard about the “freshman 15.” Though some say it’s just a myth, for many college students the freshman 15 is a very real problem. What else could we expect? With unlimited access to junk food at anytime of the day, it’s no wonder that some college students are […]
I have to confess that I was initially less than enthusiastic about attending this year’s production of playwright Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” which was staged last weekend to packed audiences in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. Not possessing a vagina myself, I thought that I would feel out-of-place and that I simply wasn’t in […]
Groundbreaking for the large-scale public artwork commissioned by Brandeis for the Festival of the Arts began Wednesday outside The Rose Art Museum. The work by Michael Dowling will be in the form of an elaborate copper fountain and will be completed in time for the Festival of The Arts, which begins April 28. Dowling has […]
In cooperation with New York’s Primary Stages, the Brandeis Theater Company last weekend presented the debut of playwright Rogelio Martinez’s “Cocktail Time in Cuba,” a play which juxtaposes one journalist’s identity crisis against the background of a Cuba potentially in upheaval. In the hopes of reenergizing his lagging career, journalist Michael Thompson (Ben Rosenblatt) arrives […]
Johnny Weir, three time United States men’s figure skating champion, 2008 Worlds bronze medalist, and two-time Olympian (fifth in Torino, sixth in Vancouver), announced a week ago that he will not compete at the World Figure Skating Competition which begins this weekend. According to media outlets, Weir is taking time to “reassess” his “strategies and […]
