2007
February 2007
Saturday 3 February 2007
Sat 3 Feb, 8 pm. Paquito D’Rivera: “The Village Street Quartet” Yu-Hui Chang: “Shadow Chase” Beethoven: Quartet in C# Minor, Op. 131. 415 South Street, Waltham, 02454. Dennis Nealon, Media Relations Director, 781-736-4205, nealon@brandeis.edu. Brandeis University - [events]
Tuesday 6 February 2007
Tue 6 Feb, 12 pm. Day of Learning on Women, Gender Equality, and the Law in Israel Featured speaker Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari will deliver a lecture titled “Women's Rights and the Politics of Divorce in Israel.” Following lunch and conversation, attendees are invited to a screening of two provocative recent films which cast light on women's position under rabbinic family law in Israel. The Cohen's Wife, is a drama made at the Orthodox film school, Ma'ale, about how a couple deals with the fallout when the wife is sexually assaulted. Mekudeshet (Sentenced to Marriage) follows women and their toanot (female rabbinic court advocates) through their struggle to receive divorces from their husbands. All events are free and open to the public; attendees are welcome to join for an. 415 South Street, Waltham, 02454. Dennis Nealon, Media Relations Director, 781-736-4205, nealon@brandeis.edu. Brandeis University - [events]
Wednesday 7 February 2007
Wed 7 Feb, 4:30-6:30 pm. A Jewish Approach to Leadership Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, Waltham Join in a provocative conversation that will incorporate key Jewish texts on leadership and apply their principles to current leadership and management issues. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Fisher Bernstein Institute for Jewish Philanthropy and Leadership, Hornstein: The Jewish Professional Leadership Program and the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts. For reservations or more information, visit the websiet, call or email Masha Lokshin. 781-736-2314. 415 South Street, Waltham, 02454. Dennis Nealon, Media Relations Director, 781-736-4205, nealon@brandeis.edu. Brandeis University - [events]
Thursday 8 February 2007
Thu 8 Feb to Sun 18 Feb. by Lanford Wilson Directed by Adrianne Krystansky Laurie Theater In an all-night coffee shop on New York’s upper Broadway, where the riff-raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the lost, the desperate of the big city come together. At the core of the play are Joe and Darlene, two young people who would seem to have the strength and the need to transcend the turmoil and ugliness of the life in which they found themselves-but are, instead, crushed by it. 415 South Street, Waltham, 02454. Dennis Nealon, Media Relations Director, 781-736-4205, nealon@brandeis.edu. Brandeis University - [events]