Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

06/17/2026

We're hiring! HBI and the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University are hiring a program coordinator to provide administrative support.

For HBI (75%), the program coordinator plays a key role in supporting new research on the diversity of Jewish women’s experience and the meaning of gender in Jewish life and culture.
▪︎HBI Event Support
▪︎Manage the HBI Research Awards Program
▪︎General Administration for HBI

For the Mandel Center (20%), this position acts as the main administrative support, enabling the success of a research center dedicated to advancing the field of Jewish educational scholarship through expansive research on teaching and learning.

Other Duties: Other duties as assigned (5%)

Job Requirements
▪︎Education: HS/GED; AS or BA preferred
▪︎Work Experience: 1-3 years

Full-time. The salary range for the position is $47,500-$59,200.

More info: https://brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Brandeis---Waltham-Campus/Program-Coordinator--HBI-Mandel-Center_R0013282-1

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06/10/2026

HBI is delighted to announce the newest publication of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues featuring JEWS AND REPRODUCTION with consulting editors 2024 HBI Scholar in Residence Rachel Kranson and Marjorie Lehman. The issue includes work by HBI Director Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, “Antisemitism, Blood Libels and Holocaust Denial: Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada”, past HBI Scholars and Research Award recipients Michal Raucher, with Samantha Gelberg, “ # ShoutYourAbortion from the Bimah: U.S. Abortion Masterplots and Jewish Counternarratives from Rabbis for Repro”, Lori Harrison-Kahan, “Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy Popkin” (review), Elly Teman, with Orit Chorowicz Bar-Am, “The Double Legal Consciousness of Religious Jewish Surrogates”, reviews by HBI founders and co-directors Shulamit Reinharz and Sylvia Barack Fishman, and many more.

Nashim is a joint publication of HBI, The Schechter Institutes of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and Indiana University Press.

The most recent edition of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues features JEWS AND REPRODUCTION with the Consulting Editors: Rachel Kranson and Marjorie Lehman. Yes, it is available during Israel's Book Week!

Nashim offers readers a wealth of deeply sourced material on Jewish women and gender, in today’s world, throughout Jewish history and literature, and in Jewish art and texts.

Nashim is an international, interdisciplinary, scholarly and creative forum in
Jewish women's and gender studies. It is a joint publication of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and Indiana University Press.

You can find a copy through: https://iupress.org/journals/nashim/

image: Judith Margolis, Song without Words (2019), 12″ × 15.75″. Glicée print on
archival board.

06/05/2026

Congratulations to Boston-based photographer Hannah Altman on her powerful, new permanent exhibition, “Grounded Glass”, opening June 21 at Archer at House 88, the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88—a project of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). https://www.counterextremism.com/press/new-exhibition-photographer-hannah-altman-retrace-physical-and-emotional-journey-holocaust?fbclid=IwY2xjawSQC0lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeAn7y3FrRdjLkjzmi_3rMwmzC4qaJoHroOCxfzOBkYx9hR2O9a4j-QQ70rAY_aem_NK6vI3HwL8wSh_wOm0Qm8w

In 2025, HBI was honored to host Altman’s exhibition, “As It Were, Suspended in Midair”, an examination of how Jewish myths are shared, inherited, and reshaped across the diaspora, at the Brandeis University Kniznick Gallery. In “As It Were”, Altman drew from Yiddish literature and Jewish mystical texts, situating her female protagonists in lush landscapes and fraught interiors. More on Altman's 2025 HBI exhibition here: https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/artist-program/past/hannah-altman/index.html

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is proud to organize Ground Glass: Reframing the World of Lens-Maker and Holocaust Victim Lore Sternfeld, a new exhibition by Jewish-American photographer Hannah Altman (b. 1995). The exhibition honors the life and work of Holocaust victim Lore Sternfeld (1915-194...

05/29/2026

Delighted to share this online talk presented by Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD, HBI Founding Co-Director and the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies, Emerita, in the Brandeis University Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department. June 11th, 1-2 pm PST.

Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies, Emerita, in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and the Founding Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

She will draw on recent American and Israeli novels that portray what it's like to be a Jew in each country and changing relationships between Jews in America and Jews in Israel, as Jews in both countries feel threatened by unanticipated challenges.

Thanks to Congregation Or Tzion for co-sponsoring this class. Secure your spot today! https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/class/whos-the-anomaly-american-jews-and-israel-israelis-in-contemporary-novels/

05/27/2026

Congratulations to Adam S. Ferziger, Bar-Ilan University professor and 2021 HBI Scholar in Residence, on receiving the Association for Israel Studies Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies for "Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism" (NYU Press, 2025). HBI is delighted to have supported Ferziger’s research on the role American women played in promoting the rise of a transnational community of moderate Jewish Orthodoxy during his HBI residency.

Co-Winner, 2026 Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies, given by the Association for Israel StudiesThe rise of moderate Orthodox Judaism in Israel and...

05/20/2026

HBI Research Associate Joanna Beata Michlic, PhD, internationally acclaimed social and cultural Holocaust historian and incoming Gratz College Associate Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights, reflects on how we tell more complex and historically honest stories about Jewish children’s survival during the Holocaust.

Too often, Michlic finds, rescue is remembered through simplified narratives of heroism alone, yet the lived experiences of Jewish children reveal a far more complicated reality—one involving courage, fear, dependency, emotional ambiguity, exploitation, mental, physical, and sexual abuse and, importantly, children’s own agency in navigating impossible circumstances.

Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Her research focuses on Jewish childhood, rescue, and the long-term impact of genocide. Michlic is author…

05/14/2026

In advance of Brandeis University’s commencement this Sunday, HBI congratulates all the graduates of the class of 2026! We’re sending extra special congratulations to the wonderful graduating Brandeis students we’ve worked with over the past several years.

Congratulations!!

✨ Esther Bistricer, gallery docent, event staff, and recipient of the Commitment to Service, Bronze Level Medal

✨ Grace Mwiza Gondwe, gallery docent and event staff

✨ Tal Pemstein, gallery docent, WSRC Louise Weinberg Arts Intern, Kniznick Gallery, and recipient of the Commitment to Service, Bronze Level Medal and the Katharine A. Chernosky Memorial Award for Conscientious and Creative Living

✨ Casey Tan, gallery docent and event staff

We will miss you and wish you much success in all you do! Mazel tov!