Last week, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, J Street U Brandeis hosted its third event of the semester, “Non-Violence Amid Violent Conflict: A Conversation with Ali Abu Awwad.” Awwad is a leading nonviolent Palestinian activist and member of the Parents Circle Families Forum, an organization that brings together Israelis and Palestinians who have lost family members to the violence of the conflict.
On Sept. 21, several disparate groups of environmentalists descended on New York City for the People’s Climate March.
In response to your editorial “Evaluate goals of sexual assault protest” (Sept. 16):As someone who was involved in the student protest at the “Light of Reason” installation, reading the Justice’s “Evaluate goals of sexual assault protest” editorial was an extremely frustrating experience.
Last week, student protestors in Hong Kong quickly escalated their demonstrations against last month’s announcement by China’s rubber-stamp National People’s Congress (NPC) that Hong Kong’s political future would be decided by Beijing alone.
In her memoir Off The Sidelines, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recalls the numerous times her male colleagues on the Hill made comments about her weight, including “You know, Kirsten, you’re even pretty when you’re fat.”
President Barack Obama has asked congressional leaders to give him the power to launch airstrikes in Syria against the radical extremist group known as the Islamic State.
On Wednesday, about 50 student protesters stood silently with signs carrying messages about sexual violence at the opening of “Light of Reason,” the new permanent installation outside the Rose Art Museum.
When I applied to Brandeis, I applied because it met a set of criteria that I was pursuing: a respected liberal arts school, with a small student-to-professor ratio, academically strong in my areas of interest that regularly accepts students with my high school grade point average and course rigor.
The immigration debate, one of America’s oldest and most divisive issues, has recently taken on a sensitive new cast.
Over the summer, I read Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, Hard Choices, which chronicled her tenure as secretary of state.
In the age of British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem “The White Man’s Burden,” which starts with the lines, “Take up the White Man’s burden?/Send forth the best ye breed?/Go bind your sons to exile/To serve your captives’ need.” Whether you perceive this poem to be satirical or serious, the words echo true today, in a new guise.
This past summer, Israel launched a military campaign within the Gaza Strip, responding to Hamas rocket fire and the kidnappings and deaths of three Israeli teenagers.
I first joined Amnesty International as a first-year, newly soaked in the importance of social justice.
Let me tell you about my older brother. He has been married for a little over a year now, and currently lives happily in a cozy apartment in Israel with his wife.
On Aug. 9, white police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
On August 11, a World Health Organization panel found that, in order to combat the current Ebola crisis in West Africa, it may be ethical for doctors to use “unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects.”
In an email on April 24, Director of Strategic Procurement John Storti informed the student body that the University had partnered with Xerox Corporation to begin renovating and improving Mail Services, the Copy Center and printing services on campus.
Last week, I was asked by the Justice to write a piece on the Palestine-Israel conflict. I said no.
Brandeis AAUP demands admin to cease business with Enterprise Rent-a-Car, primary provider of ICE’s vehicles
Brandeis community reflects on antisemitism and campus support
AFCON Tournament result controversially overturned
The Boston Red Sox still need improvement
FreePlay Theater’s “The Aliens”: An Immersive Look at Being Human