Join Freeport Wild Bird Supply and Maine Beer Company to celebrate the release of the 2nd Edition of Birdwatching in Maine.​   With over 470 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for the first time […]

The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom In person at Brandeis University (3:30-5:00 pm ET) and via Zoom (3:30-4:15 pm ET) A discussion, reception, and book signing with Ziva Hassenfeld (Brandeis University), author of The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom. This book is part of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish […]

In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Mazaltob with translators Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino. Register for the event! RSVP to let us know you're coming! Depending on the volume of responses, an RSVP may be required for entrance to the event. You will also be alerted to important details about the program, […]

Join us for a book launch celebration and discussion featuring translators/editors Frances Malino and Dr. Yaëlle Azagury and moderated by Jonathan Decter. Mazaltob, by Blanche Bendahan, is a fascinating portrait of a young Moroccan Sephardi woman as she navigates the ever-shifting ground between tradition and modernity, East and West, self and other, obligation and desire. Stylistically […]

  Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting the Black attorney Landsmarck with the American flag. The photograph shocked Boston and made front pages across the U.S. and the world and won a Pulitzer Prize. Masur has […]

Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at […]

Spring Songbirds Workshop Portland, 7–11 a.m. Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in environmental policy from […]

Join us on Zoom for a special webinar with Dr. Caren Irr, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University and of editor of Environmental Futures: An International […]

Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field A conversation with Sivan Zakai (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) and Matt Reingold (TanenbaumCHAT), editors of Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy […]

Rangeley Birding Workshop Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in environmental policy from Rutgers University, he […]

Summer Shorebirds Workshop Scarborough to Biddeford, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in […]