Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Professor Antony Polonsky does not just lecture from a book. Rather, he draws on his travels and the people he has met to create a unique learning environment. Polonsky teaches three specific areas of study at Brandeis: the Holocaust, the history of Jews in Eastern Europe and the history of secular Jews. On their own, […]
When I first told my parents that I was considering staying at Brandeis for a fifth year to get my master’s degree in Global Studies, they were very skeptical. They thought I was signing up for another year of crazy parties and drunken shenanigans with my friends. To be honest, a part of me hoped […]
Emory University Professor Emerita Frances Smith Foster was formally awarded this year’s Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize Tuesday, in Rapaporte Treasure Hall. As a co-recipient of the prize with Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson, Foster is an authority on African American family life and slavery narratives, and has published more than a dozen books […]
Dear Leah and Morgan, I have never had any problems with roommates in the past. After the housing lottery left my friends and me with less-than-ideal numbers, we decided to move off campus together. Everything was great at the beginning of the semester, but as the year has progressed I have been having problems with […]
The Brandeis Sephardic Initiative hosted a henna night Thursday, to educate students about the centuries-old practice of henna applications in the Sephardi Jewish tradition. The Brandeis Sephardic Initiative is in its second semester on campus. A cultural club under the Hillel umbrella, they are dedicated to Sephardic culture, and are open to anybody, whether they’re […]
At the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, urgency has prompted an art sale. Sound familiar? The gallery located at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., has announced it will be selling a 1919 still life by Marsden Hartley, which one expert told the Kansas City Star was the “crown jewel” of the collection. The estimated proceeds range […]
After eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving break, coming back to dining hall food was not easy. I had forgotten what it felt like to eat without having to show anyone your ID, without having to count how much money your food would cost in order to decide if you were […]
Children pepper sprayed in the face. Pregnant women shoved to the ground. Men trampled to death. Frenzied rioters just daring the police to step in and stop them. But don’t be mistaken—these are not downtrodden people fighting an oppressive government for the rights we consider basic to living; no, these are heartless people fighting each […]
One of the first changes I made when I came to college was shifting a majority of my purchases from trips to the store to a few clicks on my computer. I didn’t have a car, the Boston shuttle equaled a three-hour round-trip if I caught successive shuttles and being a college student didn’t erase […]
Hello. My name is Morgan Gross and I may or may not be addicted to my iPhone. To understand how this happened—it certainly hasn’t always been this way—we must go back a few weeks in time. I have been a BlackBerry owner, tried and true, for years. While I have always been reliant on my […]
