Qabbalat Shabbat with Professor Leonard Saxe

Gather with us onsite or online for Qabbalat Shabbat. All are welcome to join this service full of prayer, meditation, and music!

We welcome guest scholar Professor Leonard Saxe for a weekend of dynamic study. During our Shabbat together, Professor Saxe will discuss, "Antisemitism on College Campuses: Anti-Israelism as the New Expression of Jewish Hatred." The talk will focus on the eruption of antisemitism on campuses that has occurred in the wake of the 10/7 attack on Israel. Based on data from thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish students across the U.S., discussion will consider the hostility faced by Jewish students and how to distinguish between antisemitic hate speech and political rhetoric. Professsor Saxe's talk is sponsored by the Center for Adult Jewish Learning.

Register here to join us on Zoom, or log on via Facebook Live or Temple Israel’s livestream.

Questions? Call 617-566-3960 or email info@tisrael.org.

About Professor Leonard Saxe

Director, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
Director, Steinhardt Social Research Institute

Leonard Saxe is Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy at Brandeis University. He is also the director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University.

Professor Saxe is an experimental social psychologist concerned with the application of social science to social policy issues. His present focus is on religious and ethnic identity, in particular issues relevant to the Jewish community.

Professor Saxe's current Jewish community research involves studies of antisemitism, socio-demographic analyses of American Jewry, and a program of research on Jewish education and its relationship to Jewish engagement. He is the principal investigator of a longitudinal study of the impact of Birthright Israel. At the Steinhardt Institute, he is leading a program that is investigating the size and characteristics of the American Jewish population.

Professor Saxe is an author and/or editor of nearly 400 publications, including books about Jewish summer camping and Birthright Israel, as well as journal articles, book chapters, and op-eds. He has been a Science Fellow for the United States Congress and was a Fulbright Professor at Haifa University, Israel. In 1989, he was awarded the American Psychological Association’s prize for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Early Career. In 2010, he received the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry’s Marshall Sklare award.

He teaches at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the College of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University.