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The Department of NEJS is located in the Lown Center for Judaica Studies (Room 211). Get directions to our offices and the Brandeis campus.
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS)
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Mailstop 054
Waltham, MA 02453
Phone: 781-736-2950
Fax: 781-736-2070
nejs@brandeis.edu
Faculty

Expertise: Philosophy of education, with particular interest in purposes, processes, and outcomes of Jewish education in all of its various settings, scholarship of teaching classical Jewish texts

Expertise: History of American Jewish education, teaching and learning of Jewish history and social studies, Jewish youth, and LGBT Jews

Expertise: Islamic thought, theology, law and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical & modern) and Classical Arabic literature and poetry

Expertise: Hebrew language, modern Israeli literature and culture, Israeli theater and drama pedagogy, creative reading and writing, theories and methodologies in second language acquisition