Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Winter is usually the season associated with sickness, a time when sub-zero weather leads to runny noses and aching heads. Yet, this year, just as the days were beginning to get longer and the green grass was beginning to appear from beneath the layers of white snow, another slew of illness hit. As if trying […]
Three weeks ago, Brandeis Hillel’s exclusion of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) caused a stir in the American Jewish community. It highlighted the controversial ambiguity between religion, community and politics by raising the question: Does Judaism necessarily mean Zionism? The exclusion of a Jewish group from Hillel based on our political beliefs, namely, opposition to […]
You know when you go to the movies and there is the famed intro of, “Please, don’t spoil the movie by adding your own soundtrack?” Well there should be another one that goes something like, “Please, don’t spoil the bathroom by leaving remnants of your excreta.” What you do in the comfort of your own […]
In the last couple of weeks, numerous friends of mine have been flooding my Facebook news feed with statuses relating to Israel. Some posts are coherent, such as my cousin’s post: “In the last three days over 70 missiles were fired into Israel. A bomb was strapped to a phone booth at a Jerusalem bus […]
If Congress doesn’t agree on a budget for the current fiscal year by April 8, the federal government will be forced to shut down. The odds of this happening vary from day to day, depending on the mercurial negotiations currently being held on Capitol Hill. But with the Democratic and Republican proposals still differing by […]
Like most Brandeisians, I spend much of my waking existence withering away in the library. I usually arrive at 9 or 10 p.m. (after many hours of skillful procrastination) and I burrow myself on the second or third floor, in a land with no cell phone service, no talking and really no distractions outside of […]
As Colonel Moammar Gadhafi’s forces renew the offensive against the rebels, President Obama and the defense department are determined to keep the war from spinning out of control. The absolute worst case scenario seems to be the idea of troops on the ground although others claim that continued U.S. presence in the region increases America’s […]
President Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 as the only electable candidate who initially opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Unfortunately for him, there were originally better reasons and more support for toppling Saddam Hussein than there were for going after Colonel Muammar Qadaffi. As a result, Obama has, to a certain extent, undermined his […]
When it comes to the complexities of relationships, I try to maintain a sort of “don’t judge” mentality, because you never know exactly what the circumstances in any relationship are if you’re not a part of it. Things get complicated, however, when one of the people is in a previously-defined relationship and these complications can […]
Noam Shouster’s typical summer day began early in the morning. Armed with a bag of a dozen soccer balls in one hand, and arts and crafts and perhaps even a drum in the other hand, she started preparing for the arrival of 45 energetic 12 to 13 year olds. Yet this place was anything but […]
