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By dhharrison WALTHAM, Massachusetts–It was a rare opportunity. Not only did I visit Brandeis University for the first time, but I observed two of the world’s most respected Jewish figures review the severe accusations against Israel contained in the United Nations document known as the Goldstone r...

By azhar@thefire.org (Azhar Majeed) In an op-ed in the Yale Daily News, Yale University Law Professor Anthony Kronman attempts to defend Yale's decision to censor the Mohammed cartoons. Kronman makes a number of points in an effort to show that the decision to remove the cartoons from author and Brandeis University Profess...

By azhar@thefire.org (Azhar Majeed) Simply stated, Yale must not be the arbiter of what is 'safe' to publish. Such censorship corrodes the intellectual freedom that is the foundation of the entire university community. It also violates Yale's own explicit policy: 'Above all, every member of the university has an obligatio...

By FIRE Flemming Rose brings a unique and international perspective to Yale's academically baseless censorship of images of Mohammed," Kissel said. "He appreciates academic freedom more than Yale University did in this case. Will scholars fully trust Yale Press with controversial books in t...

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) Former FIRE intern and Brandeis University student Daniel Ortner published another excellent op-ed in The Brandeis Hoot last week (his previous op-ed about free expression and other problems at Brandeis is here). In the article, Daniel specifically criticizes the Office of Student...

By peter@thefire.org (Peter Bonilla) Elsewhere, Will's editorial in the Providence Journal takes Yale University Press to task this week over its capitulation to political correctness and the generalized threat of violence by removing cartoons depicting Mohammed from the book The Cartoons That Shook the World, by Bran...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) The media is abuzz today with news of the resignation of Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz. According to The Brandeis Hoot, resignation talks between Reinharz and Board of Trustees Chair Malcolm Sherman began about "three and a half weeks ago," just at the time FIRE launc...

By FIRE Jehuda Reinharz, President, Brandeis University: 781-736-3001; jreinhar@brandeis.edu Lou Anna K. Simon, President, Michigan State University: 517-355-6560; presmail@msu.edu Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University: 617-627-3300; bacow@tufts.edu

By robert@thefire.org (Robert Shibley) For instance, Johns Hopkins University, known for its prestigious medical school, saw fit to punish an undergraduate for an insufficiently politically correct party invitation on Facebook. Brandeis University, named after one of America's most important defenders of free spe...

By Deborah Barlow Facing what has been described as a potential $79m (£52.5m) deficit over the next six years, a dwindling endowment and a near-exhausted reserve fund, Brandeis University in Massachusetts announced earlier this year that it had no other choice but to close its prestigious Rose Art Museu...

By justnotnormal From 1967 through 1970 my father, composer Harold Shapero, was director of the Brandeis University electronic music studio. The studio was equipped with a Buchla 100 modular synthesizer, which was at the time the state of the art. Though I was not a Brandeis student, but still in high schoo...

 OR - David Sarasohn It must also occur to Obama -- pondering Brandeis University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University and Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland -- that this is his most direct route to appointing a justice ...

 MA SALON OF THE ARTS The Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Kniznick Gallery, 515 South St., presents, WSRC Salon of the Arts 2009: Cairns, an elegant and eclectic mix of art by WSRC scholars. Exhibiting artists include Marguerite ...

Waltham & Newton Calendar 4/16  MA 100 DAYS Brandeis University is hosting a distinguished panel of experts who will evaluate the Obama Administration's conduct in three key areas for the first 100 days: the economy, foreign policy, and health care. The event is Sunday, April 19, ...

 United States A recent study by Brandeis University found that financial education, combined with the tax credit, helps many families jump-start a savings program or take other steps toward building assets. The ability to build assets, as opposed to just earning ...

 MA BRANDEIS THEATER COMPANY presents "Hecuba," a new translation of Euripides' story of one woman's devotion and revenge, April 2-5 at the Mainstage Theater, Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham. Tickets are $18-$20. Call 781-736-3400 or visit ...

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 DE Friedman is a native of Minnesota who received a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University, spending semesters abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American University in Cairo. He attended St. Antony's College, Oxford University, ...

Waltham & Newton Calendar 3/26  MA LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY In honor of Lincoln's 200th birthday, Brandeis University, 415 South St., will display as many as 300 artifacts pertaining to his presidency and the Civil War, in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War: A Commemorative Exhibition, ...

 NY From 1962 to 1970 he taught at Brandeis, where he conducted the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus which devoted much of its time to the performance of new music. Since 1970 he has taught at Wesleyan University where he is John Spencer Camp Professor ...

By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) At Brandeis University[3] a professor was found guilty of racial harassment for explaining and even criticizing the term "wetback" in his Latin American Politics class. The professor had taught there for 50 years. It's right out of a Philip Roth book-it's absolutely ridiculous. And it to...

Waltham & Newton Calendar 3/19  MA CHAMBER MUSIC A concert of chamber music performed by musicians in the Chamber Music Performance class at Brandeis University Rapaporte Treasure Hall, 415 South St., on Wednesday, March 25, noon. Tickets are $10, $5 for students/seniors. ...

By Deborah Barlow When a snow storm barreled into Boston early last week, Brandeis University’s imperiled Rose Art Museum had to postpone an all-star literary symposium being convened to analyze the school’s headline-making decision to shutter the museum and sell all or part of its modern and contempo...

 United States He was a graduate of Brooklyn College and, in the mid-1960s, received a doctorate in microbiology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He did postdoctoral work at Yale University, the University of Colorado and the National Jewish Health research ...

By peter@thefire.org (Peter Bonilla) In The Huffington Post, Greg seizes on the comparative lack of outrage spawned by Hindley's abhorrent treatment in light of the floodgates of coverage that the Rose closing has opened. The Justice, a student newspaper at Brandeis, features a guest editorial by Adam, in which he scrupulo...

By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) Brandeis' president and his administration appear to have not heeded the lessons from powerful executives in other arenas of American life. Leaders who believe that their high positions endow them with both infallible wisdom and unfettered authority all too frequently wreak great de...

By brandon@thefire.org (Brandon Stewart) The Rose Art Museum controversy is just the latest issue to put the president's judgment in question. With a declining endowment, donor outrage, withering press coverage, a sharp decrease in applications and extensive faculty and student resistance, Brandeis is only one or two steps f...

 France - New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, Brandeis University, Columbia University and the JEHT Foundation were also clients. ...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) Strangely, however, Reinharz and his provost, Marty Krauss, have refused to bring justice in Hindley's case. Thus, FIRE has kept Brandeis on our Red Alert list, reserved for the worst of the worst campus censors, and we have warned students to think twice before applying to Brandeis in a n...

By Deborah Barlow The message out of Brandeis University last week — to its own students and to the world — was that when the going gets tough, none of this matters. Art is dispensable. Bravo to Roberta Smith, the New York Times art critic who journeyed to Boston this weekend to see f

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 United States - For the many capital projects they undertook - a science center at Brandeis University to attract top scientists and students, a renovation of the public ...

 United States - By JM Lawrence The birth of Brandeis University as the nation's first Jewish-sponsored college inspired Arline (Goodman) Alpert of Fall River to help launch ...

 - He and his wife are the largest donors to Brandeis University in Waltham, 10 miles northwest of downtown Boston, giving more than $80 million to the ...

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The Culture Of Medicine press release) - Brandeis University senior scientist Dr. Linda Pololi and her colleagues conducted in-depth one-on-one interviews with faculty members in a variety of ...

Bentley University sophomore Anne Kaduboski (Dedham/Dedham HS) turned in another strong effort, but it wasn't enough as the Falcons dropped a 133-108 decision to crosstown rival Brandeis University Tuesday night in women's swimming at ...

Tufts University junior Dean Ladin expected to owe as much as $40,000 in student loans upon graduation and assumed he'd need to postpone for years his dream of working in youth services.But now he's planning to apply for a low-paying teaching job in a high-need setting. By doing so, he will b...

Brandeis University has announced a multi-year $1 million sponsored research agreement with Smart Balance Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary, the maker of Smart Balance® buttery spread and other low-fat and fat-free foods that help lower cholesterol through a patented blend o...

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) Ortner has hit the nail on the head. All Brandeis has to do to lose the dishonorable distinction of being on FIRE's Red Alert list and avoid all the bad press that goes with it is to reverse course with a simple action, embracing the legacy of its namesake Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:...

By none (Daniel Ortner) According to an ad placed by the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education in this years' US News and World Report, Brandeis is one of the "worst of the worst" in regards to liberty on campus. The World Net Daily and Jewish World Review declared that Brandeis University dishonors its na...

 United States - Oct 31, 2008 Now step into "Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy," a deep and moody exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, organized by the Rose's ...

Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., is named for the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, a passionate defender of freedom of speech. The university has dishonored its name, it appears, in its persecution of Prof. Donald Hindley, a politically liberal member of the faculty for...

By Michelle Haimoff The one issue that surpasses even those that center around civil liberties is the continued existence of the state of Israel. <p>If you're a Jew with Internet access, by now you've probably seen Sarah Silverman's video <a href="http://thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html"&...

By none (Nat Hentoff) At Brandeis University in Massachusetts, professor Donald Hindley, on the faculty for 48 years, teaches a course on Latin American politics. Last fall, he described how Mexican migrants to the United States used to be discriminatorily called "wetbacks." An anonymous student complain...

By robert@thefire.org (Robert Shibley) Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz has a problem on his hands. His administration has managed to take a student complaint—that a Politics professor uttered the word "wetbacks" in his class—and turn it into an open faculty revolt. Bewildered students are left wondering how t...

By cultureschlock Would he choose Smart Balance, the margarine spread developed at Brandeis University (the school he helped launch with his fundraising efforts) or would he be wooed by Lee Iacocca’s Olivio? Also, who is the Debra Messing or Albert Einstein of your alma mater?

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By none (Kimberly Wexler) Brandeis politics professor emeritus Seyom Brown, Hindley's colleague for 29 years, said Hindley's brazenness should not be mistaken for disrespect. Kissel said the implications extend to other schools, including Boston University.

Jehuda Reinharz, President, Brandeis University Marc Brettler, Chair, Faculty Senate, Brandeis University Members of the Board of Trustees, Brandeis University David Pepose, The Brandeis Hoot American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

Historians of Southern Jewish culture fit roughly into two camps: those who believe that the Jewish experience in the South was fundamentally different from the Jewish experience in the North, and those who argue that similarities overwhelm differences. The Forward interviewed one r...

While thirty-five million Americans feel the physical effects of hunger each day, every household and individual in our nation feels the economic effects. So finds a new study released today by the Sodexho Foundation and researchers affiliated with Harvard University School of Publi...

The Jewish Mother, one of the most dominating icons of 20th-century American popular culture, has died. News of her death was released, inadvertently, by Brandeis University history professor Joyce Antler in “You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother.” Mother — als...

Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. I know that your new book on the Middle East is a hot bestseller. But what's with that title, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (Simon and Schuster, 264 pages, $33)? I pass over (no allusion intended) entirely its ungrammatical nature, but surely you -- and certainly your p...