News

Spring 2013

At Home in Russian Jewish Space: a Visual Quest of a Culture

Graduation 2013

Doctors and Doctrines: Discovering the Role of Religion in Modern Healthcare

Citizens of Nowhere - African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Modern Day Israel

Red Star Over the Shtetl - Soviet Nostalgia in the Post-Soviet Jewish Culture

Spring Retreat March 1-3, 2013. Sturbridge Host Hotel.


Winter 2012/2013

A group of Hornsyein Students Visits the Jewish Communities in Ukraine

How Do You Jew? - explore what it means to be Jewish. Special guest speaker - Yuri Foreman, World Boxing Champion

Lost & Found project "Doroga" - an experimental, interactive play that explores Russian-Jewish immigrant experience



Fall 2012

Applications are now being accepted for the BGI undergraduate fellowship, starting Fall 2013.

Gary Shteyngart's visit to Brandeis University was one of the major on-campus events this fall. 

Brandeis community and BGI fellows explored the geopolitical situation in the Middle East with Natasha Mozgovaya, chief U.S. correspondent for Haaretz


Spring 2012

The Second Volume of "Individual Lives, Common Story" is published by the BGI Fellows

BGI Fellows present a Sino-Judaic Colloquium

BGI Fellows Raise Funds for the Children of Sderot in Israel.

BGI fellows held a Purim Carnival for Russian and Israeli students

The Present Emerges from the Past: Lessons from Ukraine

BGI Fellows organize a full day of volunteering and community service at Rosie's Place Women's Shelter and Family Table Kosher Food Pantry

BGI Fellows create, organize and facilitate a day of learning about Israel and its culture for the entire Brandeis community


Fall 2011

Russian-Speaking Bima and Genesis Alumni reunite at the 2nd annual BGI Retreat. 

Russian Jewry: On Crossroads of Times and Civilizations.

BGI Fellows reconnect after the summer at the Fall Shabbaton at Camp Yavneh in New Hampshire.

BGI welcomes new undergraduate and graduate fellows.


Summer 2011

In The Ukraine BGI Fellows Explore Jewish Past, Present, and Future


Winter/Spring 2011

BGI Graduation Ceremony

BGI Fellows create and publish a unique scrapbook "Individual Lives, Common Story"

Our Passover by Avraham Eli Tukachinsky '11

Undergraduate Fellows Win the KVN Presidential Award for the Most Intellectual Jokes

BGI Undergraduate Fellows What I Think You Think of Me Spring Retreat Plus

Faces of Babi Yar in Felix Lembersky's Art: Presence and Absence

Press Release:  A New Leader for the Brandeis-Genesis Institute

Russian speaking BIMA and Genesis alumni from Israel, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev came together for a 3 day retreat in the North of Israel at Kibbutz Channaton

Yuri Foreman: World Champion and would be Rabbi speaks at Brandeis to BGI and the Brandeis Community.

BGI Fellows Visit Russian Jewish Community Center Makor

The Jewish Daily Forward published Professor Jonathan Sarna's article -  Returning to Moscow: A Place for Building, Not Fleeing

Update on the Distance-Learning Program for Teenagers from Russian-Speaking Jewish Families around the World

Undergraduate Fellows - What I did during the semester break

BGI Graduate Hornstein Fellows Traveled to Israel and Russia


Fall 2010

BGI Graduate Hornstein Fellow Dmitry Levin attends the UJA's The Wall Street Dinner

BGI Fellows celebrate and discuss the meaning of Hanukkah during a festive lunch.

Brandeis Launches Distance-Learning Program for Teenagers from Russian-Speaking Jewish Families around the World

Differences between Russians and Americans

Fellows attend the 6th Annual Sderot Charity Ball, 2010

Russian-American Jewish Author Lara Vapnyar Discusses "Jews in My House"

Undergraduate Fellows' Community Outreach Projects 2010-11

International Law in Russian Constitutional Justice: A Case Study in Capital Punishment

Undergraduate Fellows Enjoy The KVN Concert by "Pyramid"

BGI Undergraduate Fellows Study, Bond and Sing Together at Fall Retreat

BGI Seeking Applicants for 2011 Undergraduate Fellowship Program

The BGI: Year Two Begins. The Brandeis-Genesis Institute has begun its second full year of operation!


Summer 2010

Undergraduate Fellows work, study and play in summer 2010


Spring 2010

The Russian Jewish-Dilemma: BGI Undergraduate Fellows Reflect on the Program's First Year

BGI Undergraduate Fellows Serve Campus, Communities Through 2009-10 Outreach Projects

Eleventh Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest in the heritage speaker-level one category

The Brandeis Hoot: Klionsky paints the Russian Jewish experience

The Brandeis Justice: Clashing identities connect in Klionsky's art

BGI Fellow Nera Lerner assists her grandparents with NY housing voucher program


Fall 2009

Undergraduate Fellows' Community Outreach Projects 2009-10

Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz Joins Genesis Philanthropy Group Advisory Board

Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry Opening Reception

Julia Rabkin '11 speaks at the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry Opening Reception


Spring 2009

Genesis Philanthropy Group Makes $10.8 Million Grant to Brandeis University

Brandeis University is pleased to announce an exciting new scholarship opportunity for Russian-speaking students who wish to be of service to the Jewish community