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Below is just a sampling of recent 2009 HBI headlines. To receive HBI Founding Director Shulamit Reinharz's weekly Jewish Advocate column by email, please contact Jessica Parlon at jparlon@brandeis.edu.
"A Disturbing, Mostly Nonexistent Trend" Tablet Magazine, July 27, 2009
Do b'nai mitzvah engage in oral sex?!
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"Daily Link Roundup" Jewesses With Attitude, JWA Blog, July 27, 2009
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute releases a new issue of HBI 614 eZINE on the titillating topic of Jewish Sex!
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"Kids nowadays" TheJC.com, July 27, 2009
614 has a new issue online, dedicated to Jewish Sex ("a new look at an old act").
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"Learning how to speak for Israel" The Jewish Advocate, May 14, 2009
"Let's go to the Israeli movies" The Jewish Advocate, May 7, 2009
"Jewish prayer aids the ailing" The Jewish Advocate, April 30, 2009
"Sweden is not what it used to be" The Jewish Advocate, March 26, 2009
"Obits section for organizations?" The Jewish Advocate, March 19, 2009
"Human rights on trial" The Justice Online, March 17, 2009
A Supreme Court justice of Canada speaks about opportunity and equality.
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"Presenting a different sort of diary" The Jewish Advocate, March 12, 2009
"A mayor worthy of emulation" The Jewish Advocate, March 5, 2009
"A preview of the March 8 HBI event on gender and human rights" BrandeisNOW, March 3, 2009
On Sunday, March 8, Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella will deliver the second annual Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights. BrandeisNOW talked with Justice Abella about her upcoming speech and her distinguished legal career.
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"Justice in Canada and for all" The Jewish Advocate, February 26, 2009
"Coming together for Shabbat" The Jewish Advocate, February 19, 2009
"A Turkish Jewish woman's question" The Jewish Advocate, February 12, 2009
"Celebrating love, Jewish style" The Jewish Advocate, February 5, 2009
"Proliferation of Jewish books" The Jewish Advocate, January 29, 2009
"How are Israel's wars unique?" The Jewish Advocate, January 22, 2009
"No clergy in the inauguration" The Jewish Advocate, January 15, 2009
"The return of the 'Zionist entity'" The Jewish Advocate, January 8, 2009
"Immigrant courage inspires hope" The Jewish Advocate, January 5, 2009
"Did Madoff go to Hebrew school?" The Jewish Advocate, December 24, 2008
"From Russia, but without love" The Jewish Advocate, December 11, 2008
"Shloshim - an idea for our time" The Jewish Advocate, December 4, 2008
"Revolutionary ideas in Boston" The Jewish Advocate, November 26, 2008
"Historic election for blacks, Jews" The Jewish Advocate, November 20, 2008
"Grand/daughters write the past" The Jewish Advocate, November 13, 2008
"Next Year, A Peaceful Yom Kippur" The Jewish Advocate, November 7, 2008
"Speaking truth to the powerless" The Jewish Advocate, October 30, 2008
"Scottish Jews Keep Zionist Ideals" The Jewish Advocate, October 16, 2008
"On the Dilemna of a Shofar" The Jewish Advocate, October 2, 2008
"A Call for Jewish Renaissance?" On Point with Tom Ashbrook, September 26, 2008
Tom Ashbrook interviewed Sylvia Barack Fishman, co-director of the HBI, and Edgar Bronfman, prominent Jewish philanthropist and leader, about new ways of identity building in the Jewish community in North America, on the radio program "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" The show aired on NPR.
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"Celebrating Half a Rosh Hashanah" The Jewish Advocate, September 25, 2008
"Selecting God as a running mate" The Jewish Advocate, September 18, 2008
"The Land of Milk, Honey and More" The Jewish Advocate, September 11, 2008
"Jews - A Valuable Israeli Export" The Jewish Advocate, September 4, 2008
"Does Judaism have a 'boy crisis'?" Beyond the Pale, August 31, 2008
Co-founder of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Sylvia Barack Fishman was interviewed about her recent monograph, "Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent" on the radio program, "Beyond the Pale." The show aired on WBAI in New York (99.5 FM).
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"Seeing is Believing in Holland" The Jewish Advocate, August 28, 2008
"Dutch Repositories of Memories" The Jewish Advocate, August 22, 2008
"Memorials or Unnoticed Plaques" The Jewish Advocate, August 15, 2008
"Noa of Sinai to Noa of Amsterdam" The Jewish Advocate, August 7, 2008
"A History of a Europe without Jews" The Jewish Advocate, July 31, 2008
New Hadassah-Brandeis Institute calendar celebrates "cutting edge" craft. Brandeis University website, July 24, 2008
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"Summer School Brings Surprises" The Jewish Advocate, July 24, 2008
"Victim Impact Statements Needed" The Jewish Advocate, July 17, 2008
Shulamit Reinharz, Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and founder of the Women’s Studies Research Center and The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute looks at the impact of victim impact statements in the news.
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"The Summer Vacation from Hell" The Jewish Advocate, July 10, 2008
"Uncovering the fate of Crete's Jews" The Jewish Advocate, July 3, 2008
"On the Jesuits and the Jews" The Jewish Advocate, June 26, 2008
"Where Have all the Men Gone?" The Boston Globe, June 22, 2008
As the role of women increases in Judaism, questions swirl about a gender imbalance.
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"Production provokes a nightmare" The Jewish Advocate, June 19, 2008
"Are Jewish Men Losing Their Faith?" The Brandeis University Website, June 16, 2008
New Brandeis study co-authored by HBI co-founder Sylvia Barack Fishman, finds that Jewish males are significantly less involved with Judaism than their female counterparts.
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"Reexamining the Land of my Birth" The Jewish Advocate, June 12, 2008
"I Hear Israeli Society Singing" The Jewish Advocate, June 5, 2008
"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.
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"On Bowling Together in Israel" The Jewish Advocate, May 29, 2008
"Creating Art, Promoting Change" exhibition (VIDEO), Brandeis University website, May 28, 2008
Director of Communications, Lindsey Fieldman and Communications Coordinator, Rosalind Landman give a brief tour of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's latest traveling exhibit.
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"Creating Change: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Celebrates Activism Through the Arts on a Grand Scale" Brandeis University website, May 19, 2008
The “Creating Art, Promoting Change” exhibit is inspired by the HBI calendar of the same name. Utilizing six-double sided panels that are each seven feet tall, the show highlights the work of 13 Jewish women from around the world, including groundbreaking artists such as Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro.
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"Upping the Ante in this Election" The Jewish Advocate, May 22, 2008
"Is Being Jewish Relevant Today?" The Jewish Advocate, May 15, 2008
"Study Finds 'Man Crisis' in Liberal Jewish Circles" Arutz Sheva, IsraelNationalNews.com, May 13, 2008
Sylvia Barack Fishman co-founder of The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, has authored a new study carried out at Brandeis University that has found that Jewish men are appearing to be losing their interest in their Jewishnesss.
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"A Conversation About Intermarriage" The Jewish Advocate, May 8, 2008
"Reflections on Passover 2008" The Jewish Advocate, May 1, 2008
"Muslim Views of Israel at 60" The Jewish Advocate, April 24, 2008
"15 Seconds of Shame in Sderot" The Jewish Advocate, April 17, 2008
"Brandeis Welcomes Nobel Peace Prize Laureates" The Daily News Tribune, April 15, 2008
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute welcomed two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist and University of Houston Prof. Jody Williams to the Brandeis campus this week. This event was part of the HBI's project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law.
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"New study ponders key question: How to promote active converts?" JTA, April 12, 2008
A new report, compiled by Brandeis University professor and HBI co-director, Sylvia Barack Fishman, has widespread implications for a community grappling with the reality of mixed marriages.
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"Students Ready to Change the World" The Jewish Advocate, April 10, 2008
"But Will the Chicken Soup Taste as Good? Gentile Mothers Raise Jewish Kids" The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2008
Sylvia Barack Fishman, co-founder of the The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute is featured in an article documenting this phenomenon.
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"The Bittersweet Exodus From Egypt" The Jewish Advocate, April 3, 2008
"The Missing Piece" World Jewish Digest, March 31, 2008
Sylvia Barack Fishman, co-founder of the The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute is issuing a forthcoming monograph written in colaboration with Daniel Parmer, "Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent: The Gender Imbalance in American Jewish Life."
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"Israeli Democarcy and Evacuation" The Jewish Advocate, March 27, 2008
"Ebadi: Defender of Human Rights" The Jewish Advocate, March 20, 2008
"Jewish Women in WWII" The Justice, March 18, 2008
Lenore Weitzman, an author and Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Scholar-in-Residence, discussed the work of the kashariyot, women who helped Jews in ghettos during the Holocaust, and the role that their gender has played in their disappearance from history. For the past 12 years, Weitzman has been researching the relationship between gender and the Holocaust. She found that the acts of the kashariyot, which means "couriers" in Hebrew, have been virtually ignored by post-war historians despite the fact that they were significant contributors to the Jewish resistance in the era when Eastern Europe was occupied by Nazis.
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"Two Queens' Unending Stories" The Jewish Advocate, March 13, 2008
"Parenting in Movies and Real Life" The Jewish Advocate, March 6, 2008
"Preserving a Distant Synagogue" The Jewish Advocate, February 28, 2008
"JDate in the News" JMag, February, 2008
614: The HBI eZine's most recent issue, "How is JDate Shaking Up Judaism?" is featured on JMag, a magazine of JDate.
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"Honoring the Life of Miles Lerman" The Jewish Advocate, February 21, 2008
"Theodor Hertzl and the Electric Car" The Jewish Advocate, February 14, 2008
"Ruth Cobb versus Andy Warhol" The Jewish Advocate, February 7, 2008
"The French are Coming - to Israel" The Jewish Advocate, January 31, 2008
"A Lesson in Proper Pronunciation" The Jewish Advocate, January 24, 2008
"Martin Luther King Jr. and Jews" The Jerusalem Connection, January 22, 2008
Shulamit Reinharz's original article reprinted from The Jewish Advocate, February 15, 2007.
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"Interactive Community Local HBI Group Joins Conversation About Jewish Women's Issues" The Washington Jewish Week, January 22, 2008
Part reading club, part author series; the HBI Conversations, sponsored by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, launches its Bethesda group.
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"Wall is Keeping Graffiti Artists Safe" The Jewish Advocate, January 17, 2008
"Christmas Without Christians?" The Jewish Advocate, January 10, 2008
"Discovering What's in our Name" The Jewish Advocate, January 3, 2008
"Feminine Mystique" The Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2008
Sylvia Barack Fishman, co-founder of the The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute discusses how Judaism is experiencing a degree of 'feminization.'
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