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July 27, 2021 LDB’s Summer Speaker Series Continues with Lesley Klaff and Mark Goldfeder Discussing “Law and Jewish Identity”

On July 7th, Professor and Brandeis Center Academic Advisory Board Member Lesley Klaff and Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder continued the Brandeis Center’s Summer Speaker Series with a discussion about “Law and Jewish Identity.” Klaff and Goldfeder provided insightful legal analyses as part of a discussion about two age-old questions with regard to Jewish identity: are […]

July 8, 2021 LDB Signs Letter to University Presidents Requesting Adoption of IHRA

The Brandeis Center recently joined thirty Jewish and civil rights organizations in signing a letter encouraging 350 different university presidents to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The letter, led by the Zionist Organization of America, addresses the spike in anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic acts—particularly in Europe and the United […]

July 8, 2021 Bret Stephens’ NYT Column Discusses LDB Case

ICYMI: New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens’ recent article “discusses the Brandeis Center’s case against Stanford University as a prominent example of the folly in using a “new racism” to solve an “old racism.” The new version of “equity,” he argues, has developed an “antiracist discrimination” to remedy older forms of racial discrimination, only […]

June 30, 2021 The International Legal Forum Discusses Ancient Jew-Hatred in Modern Times

Last week, Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin appeared on an expert panel hosted by the International Legal Forum (ILF) to speak on the modern-day mutations of anti-Semitism in a webinar entitled “Ancient Hatred Modern Times.” Moderated by ILF lawyer Russell Shalev, the event explored present-day forms of anti-Semitism as “society’s oldest… but least understood hatred.” […]

June 30, 2021 LDB Summer Speaker Series featured Professor Oren Gross

On June 23, as part of its Summer Speaker Series, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) hosted Professor Oren Gross, the Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and LDB Academic Advisory Board member.  Professor Gross explained his recent resignation from the University’s Center for […]

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June 30, 2021 LDB Welcomes Four Summer Interns!

Washington, D.C.: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (the Brandeis Center) is pleased to welcome four summer interns: Nathaniel Berman, Samantha Crane, Joni Rosenberg, and Chloe Shrager. The Brandeis Center continues to lead a robust and strategic legal response to the alarming increase in anti-Semitism on college and university campuses; from […]

June 28, 2021 Top Hillel Lawyer Explains How Anti-Zionist Professors Violate Academic Freedom

On June 9th, Hillel International Vice President Mark Rotenberg headlined the LDB Summer Speaker Series with remarks on “Academic Freedom and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism.” Rotenberg described the unprecedented rise of hostile environments for Jewish students, detailing efforts to connect the United States racial injustice narrative with the Palestinian struggle against Israel and the recent […]

June 21, 2021 Recognizing Anti-Zionist Anti-Semitism by Russell Shalev

Recognizing Anti-Zionist Anti-Semitism by Russell Shalev ~ The recent global wave of anti-Semitic attacks that accompanied the May 2021 conflict between Israel and Hamas has torn the mask off the disingenuous claim that anti-Zionism is unrelated to, not motivated by and wholly distinct from hostility towards Jews. The Anti-Defamation League recorded a 75% increase in […]

June 18, 2021 A Chance to Right a Wrong Decision by Diane B. Kunz

June 18, 2021 ~ A Chance to Right a Wrong Decision by Diane B. Kunz ~ The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Judicial Circuit has granted a rehearing en banc of the 8th Circuit Court’s  decision in Arkansas Times LP v. Waldrip, (No. 19-1378, 8th  Cir. 2021), which partly struck down Arkansas’ anti-Boycott Divestment […]

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