The Louis D. Brandeis Center Blog welcomes two guest bloggers and two new regular bloggers this week: Alyza Lewin, Andre Oboler, Richard Cravatts, and Danit Sibovits. All four reflect the Brandeis Center’s commitment to combatting global and campus anti-Semitism, while protecting free speech and academic freedom, and promoting justice for all people. (more…)
As part of its new nationwide Litigation Initiative, the Louis D. Brandeis Center has hired former prosecutor Danit Sibovits to investigate and prosecute serious anti-Semitism cases in federally funded colleges and universities. Our press release announcing Danit’s arrival appears below. Press Release Body WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2013 — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law today announced that it is expanding its legal capacity to combat the resurgence of anti-Semitism at American colleges and Universities. The Brandeis Center has just hired New York lawyer Danit Sibovits, a former criminal prosecutor who will join the Center’s Washington, D.C. headquarters staff. Sibovits will have nationwide responsibility for investigating and prosecuting anti-Semitic incidents that violate federal civil rights laws, such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The move strengthens the Brandeis Center’s ability to take legal action against discrimination, harassment and hostile environments facing Jewish college and university students and to protect the freedom of speech and academic freedom. (more…)