Susan Greenbaum

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston. The university has an enrollment of approximately 3,600 undergraduate and 2,200 graduate students.[4] It was tied for 32nd among national universities in the United States in U.S. News & World Report 's 2014 rankings. Forbes listed Brandeis University as number 51 among all national universities and liberal arts colleges combined in 2013. Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish community-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named for Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's second oldest university established in 1918, 30 years before the State of Israel. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J. Safra Givat Ram campus.

PROMOTES EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH LEARNING & LEADERSHIP WITHIN A PLURALISTIC ENVIRONMENT. SEE SCH OHEBREW COLLEGE PROMOTES EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP WITHIN A PLURALISTIC ENVIRONMENT OF OPEN INQUIRY, INTELLECTUAL RIGOR, PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT AND SPIRITUAL CREATIVITY. THE COLLEGE EMPOWERS AND INSPIRES INDIVIDUALS TO CONTRIBUTE THEIR VOICES AND VISION TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND TO BRING JEWISH VALUES TO BEAR ON THE CRITICAL ISSUES OF OUR TIME.THE COLLEGE IS DEDICATED TO BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY, OFFERS DIVERSE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS FOR YOUTHS, ADULTS AND JEWISH PROFESSIONALS, AND SEEKS TO INVIGORATE JEWISH LIFE THROUGH THE CORE VALUES OF A LOVE OF LEARNING, EMBRACING COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY, ENGAGING DIVERSITY, AND FOSTERING JEWISH CREATIVITY.