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March 21, 2016 In Praise of Justice Alito’s Statement in Ben-Levi v. Brown

The government’s relationship with religion, if anything, means that the government may not categorically subject a particular religious group to heightened requirements for religious exercise, may not endorse and codify a particular interpretation of religious doctrine, and may not limit the religious exercise of an individual because the government disagrees with the individual’s interpretation of […]

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March 17, 2016 Alabama and Georgia pass new Anti-BDS Measures

More and more state legislatures are passing measures to combat the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS movement seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel, and BDS campaigns on campus often lead to increased incidents of anti-Semitism. In mid-February, Alabama passed a bill condemning the BDS movement, becoming the fifth state […]

March 15, 2016 LDB Holds Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference

On February 21-22, the Louis D. Brandeis Center hosted its third annual National Law Student Leadership Conference in Berkeley, California. The conference brought together 26 law student leaders from 14 law schools across the country, and educated these students on topics including civil rights law; international law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; international anti-Semitism and the European […]

March 14, 2016 Borders and Borderlands: Attempting Again to Delegitmize Israel

National borders have been a fundamental issue in the Middle East for a century. The year marks the hundredth anniversary of the secret British-French Sykes-Picot agreement which carved up Middle Eastern parts of Ottoman Empire in anticipation of a Turkish defeat in World War I.[i] As with most Asian and African territories, twentieth century Middle […]

March 14, 2016 “Never Again” Conference Announcement: Jewish Cultural Heritage. Projects, Methods, Inspirations

This Warsaw conference may be of interest to practitioners, especially in Europe. This one is from the “‘Never Again’ Association”: Conference: Jewish Cultural Heritage. Projects, Methods, Inspirations From the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association We invite all practitioners, museum professionals, educators, artists, and people working on a Jewish cultural heritage project to participate in the conference. We especially […]

March 10, 2016 Call for Papers

Our friends at the the International Consortium for Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism (ICRAR) have recently shared with us a Call for Papers for their upcoming Fourth Annual Conference. We thought that this announcement would be of interest to our readers, and would like to share to share more information with you below: The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing […]

March 4, 2016 Israel: Not Fiction but Fact

Israel exists —no kudos to people who think acknowledging its existence is a major concession. Few question the legitimacy of the ten new countries created in the last 20 years or the tens of countries created in the decades before. That Israel is a Jewish state is bizarrely controversial when 30 countries proclaim Islam as […]

March 3, 2016 BDS and the First Amendment

As part of its public relations campaign to lure unwitting American citizens into supporting unlawful activity, the BDS movement, through affiliated groups, has published a number of quasi-legal memoranda that wrongfully portray BDS support as being absolutely protected by the First Amendment. In a recently published analysis, The Lawfare Project effectively exposed the flawed and misleading […]

February 25, 2016 The Institute for Law and Policy at Hebrew University

The Institute for Law and Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law has recently announced their Summer Program for international Students and Attorneys. The program, to take place during June 27-July 14, 2016, is co-sponsored by the Brandeis Center along with several other groups such as StandWithUs and the Jewish Federations of North America. Fulltext […]

February 24, 2016 Counter-BDS Movement Has a Good Month

Last week the British government issued guidance banning local government and public sector Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS) actions toward any country not blacklisted by the Foreign Office. The Canadian Parliament passed a motion calling on the Canadian government to “condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS […]