I just finished the 2005 book called "Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels." On page 153, the author Hella Winston writes: "Brandeis…accessible to him only by commuter rail — or, he later learned, the "f— truck" from Harvard, named for the supposed ...

Brandeis president: We’re liquidating our art museum to pay for hookers and blow. World: DIAF. President: I meant we might sell a “minute number� of works if absolutely necessary. World: DIAF The backtracking on the (rumored?) closing of the Rose Art Museum has begun… Jehuda with hookers and...

The sudden evaporation of about $50b via a Ponzi Scheme is going to hurt the economy as a whole, but especially Jewish philanthropy. Many of those who entrusted money with Maddoff were well to do and philanthropic Jews. One thing, as a Brandeis alum, that stood out at me while reading the NY Post’...

Chabad targets Jews who won't pay hundreds of dollars to mark holy days Jennifer GreenThe Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Synagogues in Ottawa will charge families hundreds, even thousands of dollars, for Yom Kippur services tonight -- except for a Jewish outreach group whose services are...

If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means 'to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the c...

JP-A new study released just this Sunday by Brandeis University shows and interesting change in the attitudes of non-orthodox Jews. Until now it had been non- orthodox women leaving the fold it what they believed to be a chauvinistic religion. The tide is changing and now it's the non-orthodox men w...

This update purely for the purpose of aww-ing at the tour guide who just brought a group of prospies and their parents into the library entrance--and conducted her entire spiel in whispers. I kind of wanted to tell her hey, it's okay to talk on this floor, really. Though I can certainly see how one ...

Growing up at Congregation Olam Tikvah, Michelle Pearlstein remembers how Israel was taught at religious school: "Black and white -- you can't trust anyone, and it was a united front in support of Israel." Today, Pearlstein, 35, is the Israel specialist at the Fairfax synagogue, where she teaches......

Growing up at Congregation Olam Tikvah, Michelle Pearlstein remembers how Israel was taught at religious school: "Black and white -- you can't trust anyone, and it was a united front in support of Israel." Today, Pearlstein, 35, is the Israel specialist at the Fairfax synagogue, where she teaches......

Growing up at Congregation Olam Tikvah, Michelle Pearlstein remembers how Israel was taught at religious school: "Black and white -- you can't trust anyone, and it was a united front in support of Israel." Today, Pearlstein, 35, is the Israel specialist at the Fairfax synagogue, where she teaches......