Defying academic divisions
"Do not run away from yourself. You will see strife and mercy all around. There will always be wars, the barricades of those who pile up treasure, the arrogant who want to be celebrated.
Elior Moskowitz
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A comedian with heart
If you are a Brandeis student, then you have probably laughed along with your peers at the "Sh*t Brandeis Students Don't Say" video on YouTube, or perhaps you've seen the video of a Brandeis student interviewing admitted students under the mask of a horsehead. But who is the man beneath the horsehead, and how does he manage to continually catch us off guard with his satirical wit and absurdity? His name is Paul Gale '12, a recent YouTube comedy success story whose roots as a comedian date back to his antics as an undergraduate at Brandeis. Gale is a growing sensation ever since he took his comedy to the Internet and used his sardonic humor to not only entertain the Brandeis community but also to connect them with one another. During his time at Brandeis, Gale, a Film, Television, and Interactive Media major, was a member of the comedy troupe Boris' Kitchen, a member of the improvisation group Crowd Control, a writer for the now-defunct Blowfish satire newspaper, and a coordinator for a monthly comedy showcase at Cholmondeley's.
Serving up justice
Things heated up this Saturday night as students competed in an event titled, "Magic Can't Create Food, Can You?" It was hosted by the Harry Potter Alliance, a club on campus that uses pop culture to promote activism and community service.
Multi-faceted memorial
In 2004, Dr. Karen Frostig, a Women's Studies Research Center Scholar, discovered a box of letters written from her grandparents to her father during the Holocaust.
Lopatin speaks about innovative Orthodoxy
Last Wednesday, almost 90 students attended "The Tradition of Innovation in Orthodox Judaism" to hear Rabbi Asher Lopatin speak about the integration of openness into Modern Orthodoxy. The president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, a Modern and Open Orthodox rabbinical school in New York, Lopatin is a prominent figure in the Jewish Orthodox community who advocates in favor of a forward-thinking form of Modern Orthodoxy called Open Orthodoxy. In explaining the foundation for such beliefs, Lopatin first described the struggle that Modern Orthodox Jews (and Jews of many other sects) face as they grapple with the question of how to understand the Torah, the words of which can be taken literally or understood figuratively. Lopatin said that "everything is open to interpretation." "The core of Modern Open Orthodoxy is that you're always open to people asking questions and changing the status quo," said Lopatin.
Brandeis Jewish Bund holds protest to go “All out for Palestine”
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