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Exclusion at the Involvement Fair
(09/09/25 10:00am)
During Brandeis’ 2025 Fall Involvement Fair, which showcased 201 varied clubs and organizations to the student body, one organization found itself facing major intervention from other students and the Department of Student Engagement. The Brandeis Jewish Bund, an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist group, has been operating on campus for the past year, hosting vigils, sit-ins, protests and Jewish culture events. As I was walking around the Involvement Fair, I witnessed Bund members “tabling” on a blanket near the Shapiro Campus Center, facing verbal aggression and intimidation from students holding “Brandeis Students Support Israel” signs. Five anonymous students gave statements of what they witnessed happening between the Bund and other students at the fair.
A snapshot of the personality of Brandeis students
(09/09/25 10:00am)
I’ve recently set about collecting data that might give me a peek into the general personality of Brandeis students. For this study, I used the “Big Five personality traits” framework because it’s one of the most frequently used models of measuring personality. It observes all personalities as having varying levels of the same five traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. These traits are defined by Mark Dziak in his article, “Big Five personality traits.” Openness is defined as “a person’s willingness to engage with novel ideas and experiences.” Extraversion is “marked by sociability and assertiveness.” Conscientiousness is one’s tendency to be “organized and goal-oriented.” Agreeableness is one’s tendency to be “kind and empathetic” towards others. Finally, neuroticism is “associated with emotional instability and anxiety.”
Letter to the Editor — Jon Hochschartner
(09/09/25 10:00am)
Lock up fascist criminals and rebuild America
Is Brandeis better yet?
(09/09/25 10:00am)
At the start of this new academic year, marked by leadership changes, University restructuring and ongoing geopolitical issues, The Justice Editorial Board hopes to give the student body a comprehensive look into the state of Brandeis as it stands today.
Letter to the Editor — Mateo Levin
(05/19/25 10:00am)
To the Editor:
Letter to the Editor — Betzalel Hochberg
(05/19/25 10:00am)
Let us call a spade a spade. The Jewish Bund is a Pro-Palestine group first and a Jewish group second. They have held far more Pro-Palestine events than they have Jewish ones, and at their events there are always more keffiyehs than kippahs. There is nothing wrong with this, nor is this statement meant as criticism, it is simply a fact. However, it is also the case that they are not interested in any form of dialogue in good faith, else they would not have protested the Hillel Israel fest. Celebration of Israeli culture is in no way an endorsement of Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank. In fact the event had a memorial explicitly for civilians tragically killed in Gaza. The Bund may hold up their name and their Jewish identities as a paper shield, but there is a word for the belief that the only good Jew is an anti-Zionist Jew, and the rest are culpable for genocide: antisemitism.
Letter to the Editor — Matthew Pfeffer
(05/19/25 10:00am)
Dear Editor,
Letter to the Editor — Brandeis Jewish Bund
(05/19/25 10:00am)
Sack Matt Rushton!
Thank you to our seniors!
(05/19/25 10:00am)
This editorial board wants to take this opportunity to recognize the incredible contributions made by our ten graduating seniors over the past four years. Despite being a club, the ample amount of work and dedication that goes into maintaining The Justice can often feel like a full-time commitment, but these graduates have taken these challenges in stride. Although we will miss sharing our late nights in the office with them, we are more than excited to see what their bright futures have in store for them!
A home run for homeless families
(05/19/25 10:00am)
Meritocracy does not exist — privilege does. Sorry, but one’s understanding of someone else’s hard work and merit guiding their life’s outcome is not always true. While hard work certainly matters, it is rarely the case that someone’s hard work alone will determine their life’s outcomes. Luck and arbitrary circumstances matter just as much or even more. This is especially true for people dealing with homelessness. Those experiencing housing instability have higher instances of adverse childhood experiences than the general population, according to a publication in the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology journal. Additionally, a study from the American Medical Association has revealed that people sleeping outside in Massachusetts die at three times the rate of people sleeping in shelters and around ten times the rate of the general population. The response to homelessness is not blaming the homeless for their “self-inflicted” problems, rather, it is getting the homeless off the streets and putting them in shelters for long enough to help them find permanent housing solutions.
The joys and the curse of having free will
(05/19/25 10:00am)
How lucky we are to not have our life planned for us. How privileged am I to have self-determination, to become whatever I wish. Generations of women before me did not have self-autonomy — their fate was decided for them. And yet, here I am, a liberated woman of the 21st century, and I tremble with fear at my own power to make whatever I wish of myself.
Fear, courage and the sea
(05/19/25 10:00am)
Despite having grown up fascinated with the sea, a budding patron of the water as a coastal Californian child, I have never been able to shake my innate fear of it.
Doxxing has no place at Brandeis
(04/29/25 10:00am)
In this time of crackdowns and fear, we are responsible for keeping each other safe. Safety does not mean protection from ideas we do not like, but rather, freedom from persecution for these ideas. The freedom to explore and express our ideas is foundational to our mission: “By being a nonsectarian university that welcomes students, teachers and staff of every nationality, religion and orientation, Brandeis renews the American heritage of cultural diversity, equal access to opportunity and freedom of expression.”
Jewish students are not a monolith. Brandeis must stop treating us like one.
(04/29/25 10:00am)
As a prospective student, I was told Brandeis would be a place to explore my Jewish identity. Quickly, I learned I was a lesser member of the community than the legitimate Jewish students — the ones who grew up going to Jewish day schools and went to Israel during their gap years. I was an aberration, a Jew who felt no connection to Israel and wasn’t particularly interested in making one.
Letter to the Editor — Mike Sawyer
(04/29/25 10:00am)
In my chat about house paint with the 3-year home & garden corporate America store employee, I discovered that he was a 32-year-retired high school music teacher. He was proud of his former students in professional musician and band director careers. He never had much bad behavior because the students wanted to be in his elective class. “What do you miss the most from teaching?” No hesitation, with a smile, he replied, “Nothing yet.”
Letter to the Editor — John Plotz
(04/29/25 10:00am)
To the Editors:
Letter to the Editor — Matthew Rushton
(04/29/25 10:00am)
To the Editor:
Letter to the Editor — Jon Hochschartner
(04/29/25 10:00am)
Fund cultivated-meat research to stop pandemics
The past, present and future of campus protest
(04/29/25 10:00am)
Over the past 75 years, Brandeis students have exercised their right to freedom of speech by conducting protests and rallies on campus. In 1969, on January 8, a group of African-American students staged a takeover of Ford Hall, demanding a change for better minority representation on campus. This sparked waves across the University, as other students went on hunger strikes and conducted sit-ins as a way of expressing solidarity. This protest lasted eleven days, and while not all demands were met, student protestors were granted amnesty. A year later, the University administration signed an agreement with the Afro-American Organization to bring 80 additional minority students to Brandeis. This is just one example of protest demonstrations on campus. Since 1969 there have been other instances of students, faculty and facilities fighting for social change: the Pearlman Hall take-over (1970), Apartheid Protest and Divestment movements (1970), the Ford Hall protest (2015), Brandeis Employee rallies (2024), Brandeis staff, students and facilities protest against merit delays (2024). Protesting is at the core of a University that since its founding has prided itself on valuing inclusion and justice. As best demonstrated in Brandeis’ mission statement, this institution “Honors freedom of expression and civility of discourse as fundamental educational cornerstones.”