Upcoming Events
At a Glance
February 24 - Anti-Fascist Pioneers: Jewish Volunteers from Palestine in the Spanish Civil War
SPOTLIGHT EVENT:
February 26 - Partners for Peace: Israeli Settlers and West Bank Palestinians Working Together for Reconciliation
March 3 - The Rebellious Daughters of Abraham: Global Feminism across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
March 6 - Jewish Communists in Egypt and Iraq: Between Feminism, Nationalism and Transnationalism
March 6 - Cut.Loose - A Live Dance-Theater Performance
March 26 - Imagining a "We" in Israel-Palestine
April 3 - Weaving Transnational Threads: Mizrahi Feminist Thought and Organizing at This Global Political Moment
April 24 - Navigating Bourgeois Status, Socialism, and Nationalism: Comparing Armenian and Jewish "Repatriations" From Egypt
May 8 - Sephardic Public Figures in the Argentine and Brazilian Left: Revisiting an Entangled History
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Image courtesy of Raanan Rein
February 24, 2025
Monday, February 24
February 26, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
6:00-7:30 PM in the International Lounge, Usdan
For members of the Brandeis community
Pizza will be provided
Register by February 24
Register by feb. 24
The Brandeis community is invited to join us for a conversation with Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Khaled Abu Awwad, leaders of Roots/Shorashim/Judur, an Israeli-Palestinian grassroots initiative, based in the West Bank, which fosters understanding, nonviolence, and transformation. They represent a unique network of Palestinians and Israelis who have come to see each other as partners in the work to make changes to end the conflict.
Come hear about their groundbreakin
March 3, 2025
Monday, March 3
4 PM ET in HBI | Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall
Join us to celebrate the launch of Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel with a panel about feminisms across Abrahamic traditions. We will be joined by panelists who will speak both personally and from a scholarly perspective about the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities in Israel and the United States.
Panelists:
Alexander Kaye, Celene Ibrahim, and Rev. Laura Everett in conversation with authors Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks
Moderator: Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Holy Rebellion is a Brandeis University Press publication in the Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law. Created under the auspices of HBI in conjunction with its Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law, this series emphasizes cross-cultural and interdisciplinary scholarship concerning Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and other religious traditions.
This event is co-sponsored by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
March 6, 2025
Thursday, March 6
3:55 to 5:15 PM
Merrick Theater, in the Spingold Theater Center
"Cut.Loose" is a physical and vocal duet by Stav Marin and Neta Weiner that explores the violence and tenderness of a couple in the present moment and place. This dance-theater piece delves into the nuances of relationships and power dynamics across various domains, including gender, militarism, popular culture, and politics. The production examines different forms of communication, such as masculine and feminine language, body language, and spoken language. "Cut.Loose" has won multiple awards: Israel Festival Award, Acco Festival 2016; "Stage Language" Prize, Golden Hedgehog Awards, 2017; Best Duet Prize, DanceTalk 2017.
Neta Weiner is a musician, actor, and director, and Stav Marin is a choreographer, dancer, and performer. Both are independent artists from Jaffa. Their work investigates the relationship between text, body, and voice, drawing from various theater, dance, spoken word, music, and martial arts traditions.
This event is hosted as part of Professor Ilana Szobel’s WGS 205A course, “Graduate Foundations in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.”
Image courtesy of Neta Weiner and Stav Marin.
March 26, 2025
Wednesday, March 26
4:o0pm-5:30pm in Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Join us for a conversation with Maurice Ebileeni and Ayelet Ben-Yishai.
In the fall of 2022, Ayelet Ben Yishai and Maurice Ebileeni – both faculty members in the English department at the University of Haifa – co-authored an op-ed. While in agreement on much of its content, they faced an unforeseen difficulty in forging an authorial “we” to speak in one voice on equal terms. Ben-Yishai, a Jewish Israeli, and Ebileeni, a Palestinian and a citizen of Israel, have since engaged in a candid (and mostly difficult) dialogue, writing to and with each other, testing out the possibilities for a common existence for themselves as colleagues and friends, and for Israelis and Palestinians in general – “from the river to the sea.” The dialogue is ongoing but has, since last year, taken on a new urgency and assumed the form of a work-in-progress.
This event invites the audience to join in, exploring questions of identity, culture, complicity, Zionism, the occupation, Palestinian displacement, history, the present, and the future.
Presented by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities and cosponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.