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Krav Maga teaches self-defense, prepares students for potentially dangerous situations

(11/26/19 11:00am)

The Brandeis Krav Maga Club is a student-run club that teaches self-defense using realistic training and real-world scenarios in order to make students accustomed to the stresses of situations where self-defense is necessary. Krav Maga is a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli security forces. Students are taught verbal and physical methods to avoid potential threats, in addition to defensive and offensive maneuvers in cases when avoidance fails. It is a combination of boxing, wrestling, aikido, judo and karate along with realistic fight training. According to the Krav Maga Boston Club ,“The principles of Krav Maga are simple: 1) Address an immediate danger, 2) Attack simultaneously, 3) Eliminate the threat, 4) Disengage.”  

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/krav-maga-teaches-self-defense-prepares-students-for-potentially-dangerous-situations

JustArts Spotlight On The Faculty/Staff Art exhibition 2019 11/19/2019

(11/19/19 11:00am)

      While I was walking around the JustArts Faculty and Staff exhibition during its Oct. 24 opening reception day, I saw a table in the middle of the gallery with dozens of figures made out of metal wire. Some of them were animals like birds, dogs and giraffes, while some of them were human faces. While I was observing the pieces, a man standing next to the table told me to poke one of them. I followed his instructions. Guess what? The wire puppy started nodding at me! 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/kinetic-mobile-arts

The Mystic Light In Poetry

(11/19/19 11:00am)

   Most Hebrew speakers around the world are familiar with the work of Chaim Nachman Bialik, whether they realize it or not. Lauded as the father of modern Hebrew poetry, he has also been named the national poet of Israel, though he died before the founding of the modern State of Israel. His works span genres and languages: over the course of his life he wrote epic poems, love songs, religious verse and children’s nursery rhymes in Hebrew and Yiddish. I first became familiar with Bialik when I learned that many Israeli songs I loved were actually his poems set to music. So when I saw that there was going to be a lecture on campus about his works, I knew I had to go.

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/mystic-light-and-despair

Union president issues email apology to community following Judiciary hearing

(11/12/19 11:00am)

Student Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 apologized for her role in breaking down communication within the Union in an email to the Brandeis community on Friday. “I apologize for the role that I played in perpetuating this cycle and want to make it clear that my focus moving forward within the parameters of my role is to ensure that these lines are strengthened via internal restructuring and overall policy changes,” she wrote. 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/union-president-issues-email-apology-to-community-following-judiciary-hearing-brandeis

‘Unforgotten Songs’ addresses history that should not be forgot

(11/12/19 11:00am)

Eighty seven years ago, World War II surged across the globe with invasions and massacres. Across 6,563 miles on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, while men were fighting against the invasion from the Axis Alliance, women in occupied areas of East and South East Asia were captured and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. More than 30,000 women from Korea, China and other countries became what were known as “comfort women” between 1932 and 1945, and their stories were recorded in history. On Nov. 16, from 8 to 10 p.m., the “MusicUnitesUS” program will collaborate with Korean musician gamin, New York-based visual artist Chang-Jin Lee, Skakuhachi (Japanese traditional musical instrument) player Adam Robinson and the Lydian String Quartet. The concert, “Unforgotten Song,” commemorates the suffering comfort women experienced during wartime. Last week, the Justice had the opportunity to talk to Prof. Judith Eissenberg (MUS), the director of “MusicUnitesUS” and a member of the Advisory Board of the Korean Cultural Society in Boston, about the inspiration and motivation behind the concert.

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/unforgotten-songs

JustArts Spotlight On The Faculty/Staff Art Exhibition 11/11/2019

(11/12/19 11:00am)

  One of the oldest objects in my house in China was a wooden baseball bat. During the war time in the 1940s, my grandparents fled home in Wuhan for a few years when the city was occupied. When the war ended, they made their way back to the city, with not much left in the house except a baseball bat left by the occupier who was no longer there. Fascinated by this equipment from a sport that almost no one watched back home, it was kept by my family until today, as a token from an era. 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/artifact-concertina

Senate discusses special election, Union President’s apology following Judiciary case

(11/05/19 11:00am)

The Student Union Senate held a short meeting on Sunday, where they discussed the upcoming special election, talked about Student Union President Simran Tatuskar’s ’21 public apology for the recent Judiciary case and voted on a new amendment about Senate committee requirements. 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/11/brandeis-senate-discusses-special-election-union-presidents-apology-following-judiciary-case