June 19, 2014 Brandeis Center Urges Temple University to Denounce Holocaust Minimization The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a national civil rights organization, has sent Temple University President Neil Theobald a written request to respond to Holocaust minimization at his university. Blog
June 18, 2014 What Me Worry: The “New York Times” and Hitler in 1924 In a recent blog entry, I wrote that nobody—not even H. G. Wells—would have predicted in 1914 that, less than 20 years later, a megalomaniacal, anti-Semitic dictator would seize power in enlightened Germany. Now, I find that that bastion of prognostication, the “New York Times,” actually implied it was impossible in 1924. The wording of […] Anti-Semitism Blog
June 13, 2014 Pax Americana RIP As the post-WWII American Pax Americana unravels at differential rates of speed everywhere from Mosul to the Mexican border—resuming and accelerating a process that began under Jimmy Carter but was arrested for a while by Ronald Reagan—it is nice to know that Hollywood is riding to the rescue of the values of global decency and […] Blog
June 11, 2014 Terrorism and Anti-Semitic Violence: Complex New Realities Defy Simple Ideological Labels It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that we live in an age when almost every headline story has become a Rorschach Test for spin doctors on cable news or in cyberspace. Their purpose is not to promote dialogue leading to some sort of shared understanding but to further fuel current political polarizations with […] Anti-Semitism Blog
June 11, 2014 Does Anti-Semitism Threaten American Jews? The following article by LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus is distributed via JNS.org. JNS.org — In a recent issue of Time magazine, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes that anti-Semitism is “not a threat to American Jews.” He could not be more wrong. Let us start with the obvious. Any […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 11, 2014 Left, Right, and “What’s Good for the Jews” The resurgence, now on both sides of the Atlantic, of what is usually interpreted as extreme conservative politics—but might better be called right-wing populism—is likely to spark a new debate about present and future threats posed by political extremism to Jews. Since the Revolution of 1848—when according to a story an Orthodox rabbi with a […] Anti-Semitism Blog
June 11, 2014 Good News from Western Washington StandWithUs is reporting that the student government at Western Washington University unanimously voted yesterday not to consider boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) based on national origin. The Student government’s “Resolution Regarding International Divestment, Boycott, and Sanctions” is an extraordinary response to the BDS resolutions adopted at other schools. In a powerfully written statement, the Western Washington student […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 9, 2014 The Tikvah Fund Issues a Call for Applications and Nominations The Tikvah Fund is has invited our nominations for potential attendees to its very well-regarded Fall 2014 Tikvah Advanced Institutes. This round, Tikvah will offer institutes in both New York and Jerusalem on topics including Religious Freedom in America, Israeli National Defense, The Hebrew Bible and Jewish Excellence, The Case for Nationalism, and more. Please let us know if […] Blog
June 8, 2014 ANTI-SEMITIC PRIDE AND PREJUDICE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CULTURE The twenty-first century is providing fertile ground for the “artistic” transmission of anti-Semitism on two levels. For mass consumption, Mel Gibson’s film, “The Passion of the Christ” (2004), modernized the medieval passion play to which the Nazis had continued to pay homage at Oberammergau. With a powerful flair for violent filmmaking in the tradition of […] Anti-Zionism Blog
June 4, 2014 Brandeis Center Legal Advisory Board Member Garners Major Title VI Victory Civil Rights Attorney, Joel H. Siegal, a member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Legal Advisory Board, reports a major Title Six victory brought on behalf of a 14 year old African-American student against St. Charles Borromeo School, a private elementary school operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In the case, Mugisha M. v. […] Litigation