October 23, 2024 Brandeis Center Hosts Capitol Hill Briefing Highlighting Rising Anti-Semitism at Schools Last month, the Brandeis Center hosted a Capitol Hill briefing titled “Back to School: Protests, Harassment, and the Law.” The panel discussion was moderated by Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin, and featured Senior Attorney Robin N. Pick, as well as George Mason University Professor David E. Bernstein and Hillel International General Counsel Mark Rotenberg. […] Blog Events (blog) Highlights Uncategorized
October 10, 2024 The Ethics of War and Peace On September 26, 2024, Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin delivered the keynote address at the 18th Annual Jewish Law Symposium in Whippany, NJ. Her full remarks are below and published on JNS. Our topic tonight is “The Ethics of War and Peace.” A year ago, a program on this topic would have been an abstract philosophical discussion. Today, […] Blog
October 9, 2024 U.S. House Committee Substantiates Brandeis Center Clients’ Claims of Anti-Semitism in their Union The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce issued its long-awaited report on anti-Semitism in unions last month, following a recent hearing held by the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee where a Brandeis Center client testified. Indeed, the Congressional Report is almost entirely about the experience of our clients, attorneys at Nassau County […] Anti-Semitism Blog Highlights Uncategorized
August 9, 2024 Kenneth L. Marcus Explains How to Use the Law to Counter Anti-Semitism American Jewish University President Dr. Jeffrey Herbst invited Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus to join him in a conversation on August 1, 2024, about anti-Semitism on college campuses. On the AJU webinar “Using Law to Fight Antisemitism,” Marcus explained that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the single most important […] Blog Campus Administrators Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Highlights IHRA
July 24, 2024 Brandeis Center Hosts Capitol Hill Briefing Highlighting Retaliation Intended to Silence Jewish Voices The Brandeis Center hosted a Capitol Hill policy briefing on July 10, 2024, titled “Retaliation Against Jewish Students and Parents: How Counter-complaints and Baseless Accusations are Being Weaponized to Silence Jewish Voices on Campus.” The event highlighted disturbing accounts of anti-Semitism alongside troubling investigations into Jewish parents and students by campus administrators. Brandeis Center Board […] Blog Events (blog) Highlights
July 23, 2024 Thirty Nations Adopt Global Guidelines for Countering Anti-Semitism Amid solemn reflection on the 30th anniversary of the AIMA bombing— July 18, 1994, the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history—diplomats, leaders from the United States Congress, and Jewish communities gathered to honor the victims and reinforce their commitment to combatting anti-Semitism. From Buenos Aires, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt […] Blog Highlights IHRA
July 22, 2024 Brandeis Center Client Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Anti-Semitism in Labor Unions Brandeis Center Client Ilana Kopmar, a Nassau County Legal Aid attorney and member of UAW Local 2325, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA), testified in front of Congress on July 9, 2024, at a hearing on anti-Semitism faced by labor union members held by the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee. Ms. Kopmar recounted […] Anti-Semitism Blog Highlights
July 2, 2024 Brandeis Center Client Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Anti-Semitism Affecting College Faculty Brandeis Center client Dafna Golden, a professor of Geography at Mt. San Antonio College in California, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives last week at a hearing examining the impact on faculty of unchecked anti-Semitism on college campuses. “I am here today to share the distressing experiences I have endured at Mt. SAC as […] Blog Events (blog) Highlights
June 25, 2024 Kenneth L. Marcus Delivers Powerful Testimony to U.S. House Ways & Means Committee about ‘Perfect Storm’ Threatening the Safety of Jewish Students The House Ways and Means Committee invited Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus to testify at its hearing: “Crisis on Campus: Antisemitism, Radical Faculty, and the Failure of University Leadership,” which took place June 13, 2024. The hearing’s other witnesses included recently-graduated Cornell student Talia Dror, Columbia Professor Shai Davidai, American Jewish Committee CEO and […] Blog Events (blog) Highlights
June 11, 2024 Welcome, Summer Clerks and Interns The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is pleased to introduce two new law clerks and three new interns for the summer of 2024. Law Clerk Sarah Simon is a J.D. Candidate at Columbia Law School, where she currently serves as the President of the Jewish Law Students’ Association and the Vice […] Blog Highlights Interns
May 7, 2024 Brandeis Center Hosts Capitol Hill Briefing Highlighting the Spread of Anti-Semitism in K-12 Schools On May 3, 2024, the Brandeis Center hosted a Capitol Hill briefing titled “Fighting Antisemitism in K-12 School.” The panel discussion was moderated by Brandeis Center Director of Legal Initiatives Denise Katz-Prober and featured Senior Education Counsel Marci L. Lerner and Senior Counsel Rabbi Mark Goldfeder. The Brandeis Center experts discussed the laws governing K-12 […] Blog Events (blog) Highlights
March 28, 2024 Brandeis Center Hosts Capitol Hill Briefing Highlighting the Dangerous Impact of Hamas Propaganda on College Campuses On March 26, the Brandeis Center hosted a Capitol Hill briefing titled “The Israel-Gaza War: How Hamas Propaganda Impacts American Students.” Brandeis Center Founder and Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus delivered opening remarks, while LDB Senior Counsel Mark Goldfeder interviewed urban warfare expert John W. Spencer. Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin provided final remarks. Spencer is an award-winning […] Blog Events (blog) Highlights
February 21, 2024 Reviewing Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank’s new book on Judging Jewish Identity in the United States In her new volume on Judging Jewish Identity in the United States, Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank devotes ample space to the 1987 case of Shaare Tefila v. Cobb. Shaare Tefila is critical in that it established that ethno-religious group members, such as Jews and Sikhs, could avail themselves of civil rights protections that were established in Nineteenth […] Anti-Semitism Blog Highlights
January 31, 2024 LDB Signs AMCHA Coalition Letter to Combat Anti-Semitism at UC Santa Cruz The Brandeis Center joined an AMCHA-led coalition letter on January 18 to the University of California Regents, President, and California Attorney General expressing concerns regarding anti-Zionist activities in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) department at UC Santa Cruz. The Brandeis Center and the AMCHA Initiative were joined by 118 other education, civil rights, […] Anti-Zionism Blog Highlights
January 25, 2024 Welcome, New Spring Law Clerks and Interns The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is pleased to introduce a new group of interns and law clerks for the spring of 2024. Civil Rights Law Clerk, Elana Shapiro, is a fourth-year student at Georgetown Law. Mrs. Shapiro works as the Program Manager of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution while […] Interns
January 24, 2024 LDB Theater Benefit: ‘Jewish in an Hour’ Here’s something light you may want to see. On January 19th, the Brandeis Center was the beneficiary of the entertaining theatrical fundraiser, “Jewish in an Hour.” The performance was written and performed by Carl Kissin and produced by the theater company, Little Red Light Theatre. “Jewish in an Hour” aims to educate people on important Jewish holidays and […] Events (blog)
December 18, 2023 Yale Podcast Discusses ‘Unprecedented Antisemitism on Campus with Kenneth Marcus’ On November 20, 2023, Yale’s Buckley Institute podcast “Pod and Man at Yale” interviewed Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus, who discussed the record levels of campus anti-Semitism – even before the October 7 Hamas massacre. Regarding the weeks following the attacks, Chairman Marcus states: “Certainly, the volume of intake [for legal help requests to the Brandeis Center […] Blog
November 21, 2023 EMERGENCY WEBINAR – THE HAMAS ATROCITIES AND THE AMERICAN CAMPUS With the national group Students for Justice in Palestine calling for a “national day of resistance” across campuses on October 12 and student groups at Harvard and NYU publishing statements siding with Hamas terrorists, attend our webinar to hear Brandeis Center legal experts discuss the obligations college administrators have to keep Jewish students safe. Register at: bit.ly/LDB-webinar. Events (blog)
November 20, 2023 Congressmen Join LDB’s Calls for OCR Action Since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, there have been record levels of anti-Semitism and Jewish hatred on college campuses across the nation. In a November 14 letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Representatives Kevin Kiley and Burgess Owens urged the office to take a more proactive approach is combatting […] Anti-Zionism
November 20, 2023 Brandeis Center Signs Letter Urging International Committee of the Red Cross to Protect Hostages Taken by Hamas The Brandeis Center (LDB) signed a joint-letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asking it to act within its mandate to locate and establish communication with Israeli hostages and prevent violations of International Humanitarian Law by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza. Violations include murdering civilians, using human shields to cover military targets, and publicly displaying […] Anti-Zionism
November 8, 2023 Brandeis Center Hosts Congressional Briefing on Defining Anti-Semitism in the Wake of Oct. 7 On October 27, the Brandeis Center hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on the rise of anti-Semitism in America after Hamas’ deadly October 7th attack on Israel, and the dire need for universal adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. U.S. Representative and Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism Brian […] Anti-Semitism Blog