By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org Earlier this year, Barry Chazan, professor emeritus of education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, penned an op-ed for the ...
Think of Yiddish today and you might picture Hasidic Brooklyn, Haredi neighborhoods in Israel or scholars working to preserve a language too often falsely written off as “dead” or “dying.” But Texas? Ikh ken es nisht gleybn! (I can’t believe it!) Sebastian Schulman, director of partnerships at the Yiddish Book Center, has spent the past... […]
A quarter of college students who view Israel favorably also believe its government is committing genocide. That’s according to a Brandeis study published earlier this month, which surveyed nearly 4,000 students across 303 colleges in fall 2025 about their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and concluded views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are more nuanced than... […]