Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

January 22, 2019

First Annual Study Abroad Week---a whole week to research, apply, and get excited for a semester, year, or summer abroad! Join one or more of 11 events hosted during the week!

January 25, 2019

Roots:  A local Palestinian Israeli initiative for understanding, nonviolence, and transformation.

Hanan Schlesinger, an Orthodox Rabbi and passionate Zionest settler, and Palestinian Shadi Abu Awwad, the architect and coordinator of the Roots youth movement, share their personal stories and how they are working together to build a better future for their peoples through Roots/Shorashim/Judur.

Sponsored by Brandeis Hillel.

January 15, 2019

Lecture by Elliot Wolfson.

Professor Wolfson received his PhD from Brandeis in 1986 and is currently the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Sponsored by the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies,the Mandel Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, the Program in Religious Studies, and the History of Ideas Program.

November 8, 2018

Rights and Nationhood from 1948 to the Present

Lecture by Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Yale University

Sponsored by the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry with the support of the Valya and Robert Shapiro Endowment and the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

November 8, 2018

The Arabic Language Program invites you to enjoy Middle Eastern refreshments and desserts at 5:30 p.m. and meet guest calligrapher, Hajj Wafaa.

Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Arabic Language Program.

October 15, 2018

Offered the week of October 15, 2018

Join us for a week of amazing performances by international Israeli artists starting October 15, 2018.  Note events are in Hebrew and/or English.  All are welcome.

Sponsored by: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, NEJS, Consulate General of Israel to New England, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, CGES, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Hillel at Brandeis, Department of Theater Arts

October 11, 2018

The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof."

Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Yiddish Program.

October 8, 2018

Guest lecture by Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University

Moultrie has recently published Passionate and Pious:  Religious Media and Black Women's Sexuality (2017)

Offered by The Program in Religious Studies and the Kraft Hiatt Fund; co-sponsored by Office of Spiritual and Religious Life and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion