Welcome to the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute


	Please scroll down to learn more about current HBI projects and events. This summer, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute announces their new traveling exhibit, and welcomes a fresh round of Lily Safra Interns. We extend an invitation to all of you to explore our areas of research and join us at our public events.


	The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) develops fresh ways of thinking about Jews and gender worldwide. The HBI provides opportunities to scholars and artists through the HBI Scholars -in-Residence program and Research Awards. We also offer a variety of publications, including our most recent series, The Reuben/Rifkin Jewish Women Writers Series: A Joint Project of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Feminist Press.

The Latest News from the HBI:

Groundbreaking Gender Monograph now Available

"Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Decent: The Gender Imbalance in American Jewish Life” by HBI co-director, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Ph.D. and Daniel Parmer (2008).

A new study has just been published by The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute that finds that as the liberal Jewish community empowers its women, its men appear to be losing interest in their Jewishness.

Click here to download a pdf or to purchase a copy of the monograph.

Creating Art, Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women - The Exhibit is now available!

Creating Art, Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women - The Exhibit is the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's newest traveling exhbit. Complemented in style and content by the weekly planner of the same name, the traveling exhibition features 13 Jewish women artists who have taken deliberate actions to bring about a positive social and/or political change. With strength, integrity, and creativity, they encourage us to engage in Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) and make the world a better place.

Read more. . .

"Academic Excellence" Hadassah Magazine, June/July 2008, Vol. 89, No. 10
National Hadassah President, Nancy Falchuk, dedicates her column to the 10th anniversary of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
Read more. . .

Check out the current issue of 614 the HBI E-Zine!

More than 25 percent of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion (Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life). We have included in this issue essays from a young black woman on her way to converting; a gay woman who adopted black children; and several other essays you may or may not agree with. What do you think makes a family Jewish?
Read on.

Announcements and Deadlines:

The HBI Introduces Innovations to the Scholar-in-Residence Program

The HBI now offers three unique opportunities to be in residence at Brandeis University while working on a significant project in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies:

The HBI Scholar-in-Residence Program (Fall 2008)

The HBI Seminar Series: Gender and Jewish Thought (Spring 2009)

The HBI Summer Scholar-in-Residence Program (Summer 2009)

Click here for program details.