A group of right-wing extremists attacked two mosques in New Zealand on March 14, an act of terror that is currently being called “one of New Zealand’s darkest ...

The Impact of the May 2021 Hamas-Israel Confrontation A Conversation with Shai Feldman Organized and edited by David Siddhartha Patel October 28, 2021 For 12 days in May 2021, Israel and Hamas ...

Beyond Erdoğan: Lessons from Turkey's 2024 Local Elections A Conversation with Evren Balta and Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu Organized and edited by Ramyar D. Rossoukh, Assistant Director for Research May 1, ...

Ennahda: Before and After the Coup in Tunisia A Conversation with Andrew F. March Organized and edited by David Siddhartha Patel July 8, 2022 After the Jasmine Revolution of 2011, the Islamist ...

Donald Trump has said that Jews will be to blame if he loses the election and that, unless he is elected, Israel will be annihilated. Whatever one’s political commitments, these comments should be ...

Becoming Hezbollah: The Party’s Evolution and Changing Roles A Conversation with Mohammad Ataie Organized and edited by David Siddhartha Patel January 27, 2023 Over its forty-year history, the ...

Every Passover, Jews set an extra cup of wine on the dinner table and open the door for the enigmatic prophet Elijah, hoping he will enter. An evolving symbol of hope and redemption in Judaism over ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. An anti-Semitic hoax more than a century old reared its ugly head again as the Republican National Convention was underway last week. Surely no ...

Brandeis was busy in 2025. World-class research. A bold new vision to meet the moment in higher education. Awards. Dialogue. And student success. Brandeis Stories shared the achievements, charted the ...

The Ku Klux Klan’s failure to defeat the black civil rights moment is well documented, but the group’s lesser-known legacy may be its lasting impact on the U.S. political system, according to a paper ...

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. Jonathan Sarna is University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis. One of the many horrifying ...