Welcome New Bloggers

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.

Litigator Alyza Lewin, Esq., a partner in Lewin & Lewin, joins us this week as a guest blogger.  Ms. Lewin is president of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and a member of the Brandeis Center’s Legal Advisory Board.  Ms. Lewin and her father, LDB Legal Advisory Board member Nathan Lewin, have handled some of the most momentous legal cases affecting the American Jewish community. Their current cases include, for example, Zivotofsky vs. Secretary of State Clinton, which is also known as the Jerusalem passport case.

Australian social media and online public diplomacy expert Andre Oboler, Ph.D., also joins us as a guest blogger.  Dr. Oboler is CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute and is extraordinarily knowledgeable about internet and social media anti-Semitism.  This week, in commemoration of International Day for hte Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21), Dr. Oboler will issue a major new report.  Although it is still under wraps, we have read an embargoed draft, and it is impressive.

Communications expert Richard Crravatts, Ph.D., who heads the Communications Management program at Simmons College, joins us as a regular blogger.  Dr. Cravatts is President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a member of the Brandeis Center’s Board of Directors, and author of a recent book about campus anti-Semitism.  He writes regularly on campus anti-Semitism, anti-Israelism and academic freedom for a number of media outlets.

Finally, LDB litigator Danit Sibovits, Esq., who has just joined the Brandeis Center to beef up its legal advocacy program, will be a regular blogger as well.  Ms. Sibovits, a former criminal prosecutor, brings strong legal experience and on-the-ground knowledge of current campus controversies.

We are honored to be joined by these four great bloggers and look forward to reading their work over the coming days.  If you have not yet subscribed to the Brandeis Center’s blog feed, please do so on this page in order to receive a daily digest of entries.