December 19, 2025 Scene at Brandeis is a recurring feature highlighting the work of Brandeis' photographers. By staff ...

A group of right-wing extremists attacked two mosques in New Zealand on March 14, an act of terror that is currently being called “one of New Zealand’s darkest ...

The Impact of the May 2021 Hamas-Israel Confrontation A Conversation with Shai Feldman Organized and edited by David Siddhartha Patel October 28, 2021 For 12 days in May 2021, Israel and Hamas ...

Ennahda: Before and After the Coup in Tunisia A Conversation with Andrew F. March Organized and edited by David Siddhartha Patel July 8, 2022 After the Jasmine Revolution of 2011, the Islamist ...

Becoming Hezbollah: The Party’s Evolution and Changing Roles A Conversation with Mohammad Ataie Organized and edited by David Siddhartha Patel January 27, 2023 Over its forty-year history, the ...

Donald Trump has said that Jews will be to blame if he loses the election and that, unless he is elected, Israel will be annihilated. Whatever one’s political commitments, these comments should be ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. An anti-Semitic hoax more than a century old reared its ugly head again as the Republican National Convention was underway last week. Surely no ...

It’s a busy time for Allan Lichtman ’67, the so-called “prediction professor” who has built a national profile correctly forecasting the outcome of U.S. presidential elections since 1984 using his ...

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 ...

A bold vision for a new era of higher education. Since its founding in 1948, Brandeis University has been defined by academic excellence and the generation of new knowledge with an ethos of critical ...

Shepsl Rotholc was a famous champion Jewish boxer in Poland in the 1930s. When the Nazis rose to power in neighboring Germany, he beat their fighters in bout after bout. "Rotholc Triumphs over the ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. Jonathan Sarna is University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis. One of the many horrifying ...