The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program provides multi-year funding to promising early-career investigators conducting ...

Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, reflects on the internal and external pressures shaping Iran’s future — from ...

Brandeis Professor of Anthropology Jonathan Anjaria will co-lead new research under a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton ...

After the Israel-Hamas War: Israeli Perspectives. A Conversation with Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch and Shai Feldman. Organized and edited by Ramyar D. Rossoukh, Assistant Director for Research, and Naghmeh ...

Pennsylvania’s Jewish population includes 300,000 adults, nearly 3% of the state’s eligible voters. In 2016, Trump won Pennsylvania by a margin of less than .7%, while in 2020, Biden took the state by ...

If you asked a Jew in 19th-century Poland, Iraq, or even New York about tikkun olam, they might have shrugged their shoulders and said they didn't know much about it. "It was a pretty obscure term," ...

Every Passover, Jews set an extra cup of wine on the dinner table and open the door for the enigmatic prophet Elijah, hoping he will enter. An evolving symbol of hope and redemption in Judaism over ...

Statement on Israel. Note: This message was shared with the Brandeis community on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 7. Oct. 7, 2023. Dear Brandeis Community, ...

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in The Conversation.. Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of ...

May 13, 2022. According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2021 was a low point in the history of American antisemitism.. The organization tallied 2,717 antisemitic incidents for that year, the most since ...

After the Israel-Hamas War: Palestinian Perspectives. A Conversation with Yezid Sayigh and Khalil Shikaki. Organized and edited by Ramyar D. Rossoukh, Assistant Director for Research, and Naghmeh ...

The Ku Klux Klan’s failure to defeat the black civil rights moment is well documented, but the group’s lesser-known legacy may be its lasting impact on the U.S. political system, according to a paper ...