April 30, 2024 The Brandeis Brief: May 2024 The Brandeis Center and our partners at StandWithUs and ADL jointly filed a federal complaint against Ohio State University (OSU), alleging a pervasive anti-Semitic climate for Jewish students. Pratt Institute removed a BDS resolution from its Academic Senate agenda after receiving a letter from LDB warning that passage “would trigger [New York State] to divest all state funding from […] 2024
March 1, 2024 March 2024 Brandeis Brief This month, the Brandeis Center and ADL filed a federal antidiscrimination complaint with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights against the Berkeley Unified School District, over its failure to address rampant anti-Semitic bullying and harassment of Jewish students after October 7 at schools throughout the District. In partnership with the ADL and law firms Covington […] 2024
February 8, 2024 February 2024 Brandeis Brief The Brandeis Center and Jewish on Campus filed a complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights against American University on behalf of numerous Jewish students who have been assaulted, threatened, and intimidated on campus because of their Jewish identity. Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin was the subject of a magazine cover story. And Facebook’s parent company Meta accepted LDB’s recommendation on Holocaust […] 2024 Brandeis Brief
January 2, 2024 January 2024 Brandeis Brief In December, the Brandeis Center announced it was suing the University of California for the “longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism” on UC Berkeley’s campus. Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus was all over cable news, framing not only LDB’s lawsuit, but also the egregious double standards on display when university presidents from Harvard, Penn, and MIT testified before Congress about campus anti-Semitism. And LDB launched two […] 2024 Brandeis Brief
November 27, 2023 December 2023 Brandeis Brief The Brandeis Brief: December 2023 This month, the U.S. Education Department announced it opened civil rights investigations at the University of Pennsylvania and Wellesley College in response to anti-Semitism complaints filed by the Brandeis Center and Jewish On Campus. Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus testified three times before Congress about the recent rise in campus anti-Semitism. And responding to the […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
October 30, 2023 November 2023 Brandeis Brief The Brandeis Center stands with the world’s Jewish community, following the horror and grief of Hamas atrocities since October 7. Demand for our services to keep Jewish students safe on college campus and K-12 environments has since escalated significantly. Brandeis Center attorneys have been continuously speaking with a large number of students and professors around […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
October 11, 2023 OCTOBER 2023 BRANDEIS BRIEF The Biden administration declared that eight federal agencies will use Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of ethnic or ancestral discrimination – a policy known as the “Marcus Doctrine” since LDB Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus established it at the U.S. Department of Education nearly 20 years ago. A […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
June 22, 2023 July 2023 Brandeis Brief This month, the federal government opened an investigation into the Brandeis Center’s complaint against SUNY New Paltz, the first complaint involving anti-Semitism to be opened by the Education Department since the Biden administration released its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus continued to provide insights about the Biden antisemitism plan to news outlets – […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
May 30, 2023 June 2023 Brandeis Brief This month, ahead of the Biden administration’s unveiling of its anti-Semitism plan, Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus made the case for the plan’s use of the one and only gold-standard definition of anti-Semitism, the IHRA working definition. In a series of op-eds, Marcus explained why “any inclusion of [the] Nexus [definition] will severely undermine Biden’s…plan.” Meanwhile, LDB General […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
April 28, 2023 May Brandeis Brief: UVM + US Education Dept. Reach Milestone Agreement In response to a Brandeis Center complaint regarding anti-Zionist harassment and discrimination at the University of Vermont (UVM), the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced a milestone Resolution Agreement requiring UVM recognize and address anti-Semitic discrimination that manifests as (takes the form of) national origin discrimination based on shared ancestry. LDB submitted a formal regulatory […] 2023 Brandeis Brief