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April 28, 2015 LDB and Decalogue Join Forces to Train Illinois Law Students

This article about LDB’s National Law Student Leadership Conference was published in the Spring 2015 Edition of the “Decalogue Tablet,” a publication of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers. The Decalogue Society is a Chicago-based organization founded in 1934 to promote justice in society and to advance and improve the law, administration of justice and legal […]

April 28, 2015 Twenty-Six Groups Write to Stanford University

The Louis D. Brandeis Center joined the AMHCA Initiative and twenty-four other groups in writing a letter on anti-Semitism at Stanford University to its President, John Leroy Hennessy. President John LeRoy Hennessy Office of the President Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2061 Dear President Hennessy, We are 26 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people who […]

April 26, 2015 Kantor Center Reports on Surging Global Anti-Semitism

The 2014 Kantor Center annual report highlights a 38% worldwide increase in violent anti-Semitic incidents compared to 2013. The Kantor Center, based at Tel Aviv University, specializes in contemporary European Jewry and publishes an annual detailed report on anti-Semitism worldwide. According to this data, 2014 is the second worst year for anti-Semitism in the last […]

April 23, 2015 After condemning anti-Semitism, UCSB Student Senate rejects BDS resolution

On April 15th, the University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) Student Senate rejected a BDS resolution by a short majority, with 13 no, 12 yes and one abstention. The resolution was calling UCSB to divest from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Caterpillar, and Hewlett Packard. This resolution comes just two weeks after the groundbreaking […]

April 22, 2015 3 New LDB Chapters Open in the Windy City

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law’s (LDB) Law Student Chapter Initiative, started last year, continues to expand! Last week, LDB opened three new law student chapters in Chicago – at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, and Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The recent rise in anti-Semitism on university campuses is undeniable […]

April 22, 2015 Anti-Semitism at Northwestern University

President Morton Schapiro Northwestern University 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208-1100 Dear President Schapiro, We are 23 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people who are very concerned about the safety and well-being of Jewish students at Northwestern University. We are troubled by reports of two separate incidents of antisemitic graffiti discovered […]

April 16, 2015 BDS in Paris

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement is not only growing on American college campuses, but also at European universities. This is unsurprising, as anti-Semitism has been skyrocketing in Europe in recent years, and where there is anti-Semitism, BDS supporters often emerge. I am a Jewish French student, currently studying abroad in the U.S. for […]

April 10, 2015 Hear LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus Speak in New Haven

April 6, 2015 Israel Listed as Top Violator of Women’s Rights

The top United Nations Women’s Rights Body, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), recently named Israel as the top violator of women’s rights worldwide. In fact, of the 193 member states of the UN, only Israel was condemned as a violator of women’s rights. CSW’s approval of the resolution points out UN’s […]

April 6, 2015 Anti-Semitism at Northeastern University

President Joseph E. Aoun Office of the President Northeastern University 716 Columbus Place, Suite 620 Boston, MA 02120 Dear President Aoun, We are 22 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people who are deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of Jewish students at Northeastern University. We are troubled by the reports of a swastika […]