Tag: Judaism
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Religion and the Presidency
In The Hoot’s recent article about the selection of Frederick Lawrence as the new University President, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Malcolm Sherman was asked about the impact of Lawrence’s religion on his confirmation: Malcolm Sherman, Chairman of the Brandeis Board of Trustees said Lawrence’s Judaism was “a consideration” at a school that self-identifies as a […]
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The New Media Meme: “Brandeis Hates Israel!!!”
Last Wednesday, Jonathan Mark of The Jewish Week published an article striking back at the perception that Israel is, even among Jews, losing the respect of the American people that it has enjoyed for so long. While I try to avoid injecting myself into Israeli political debates as much as possible, I do find it […]
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An Interfaith Success Story
If you could sum up successful interfaith dialogue in three words, what would they be? How about “Homies in Harmony”? If those aren’t quite the words you had in mind, then you clearly weren’t one of the organizers of last week’s Jews and Muslims Session: Homies in Harmony III. I wish that I had been […]