Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Expertise: Jewish thought, intellectual history, political thought, legal history

Expertise: Israeli history, gender, Orthodox Jews, politics of popular culture, television and film, nationalism, politics

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Keren Goodblatt has been with the Center for over 12 years. Before coming to Brandeis, she was the student life coordinator at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Keren was born in Israel and grew up in California. She has a BA in French from UCLA, and studied romance philology, semiotics and sociolinguistics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Keren speaks Italian, French, Hebrew and Welsh.

Mengqi is a Brandeis alumna ('21) who majored in psychology and education studies. In her prior work, she focused on supporting educational and psychological services and research in universities and NGOs across the United States, United Kingdom and China. She also has an MEd in human development and education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her native language is Mandarin Chinese.

Before joining the Schusterman Center in the fall 2018, Wendy served as the admissions coordinator for the Trust Center for Early Education at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline and has worked for Eim Chai, a local start-up Jewish women’s organization, to name a few. She also spent 13 summers as the office manager for Camp Pembroke, a Jewish girls' overnight camp, in Pembroke, Massachusetts.