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
April 4, 2023 Brandeis Brief: April 2023 The Brandeis Center filed a friend of the court brief in an upcoming Supreme Court case that could change how employees’ religious observance rights are treated by employers. We coordinated a letter from an extended coalition of leading Jewish American national and international organizations chastising a U.S. rugby team for its participation in an international tournament that is discriminating […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
February 27, 2023 Brandeis Brief: March 2023 . It was a great day for the cause of justice when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an anti-BDS law in Arkansas. The Brandeis Center submitted legal briefs on the side of the state. The Republican National Committee cited our 2021 survey “Anti-Semitism @ College” in its resolution opposing all forms of anti-Semitism, Chairman Marcus was widely quoted in the […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
February 1, 2023 Brandeis Brief – February 2023 The Brandeis Center had a very active start to 2023, pushing back against anti-Semitism. Chairman Marcus’s op-ed “Will President Biden Follow Through on His Pledge to Combat Anti-Semitism?” ricocheted through Jewish media sources. When the Dept. of Education answered with another delay of anti-Semitism guidelines, causing much confusion, Chairman Marcus identified “the Biden administration’s first […] 2023 Brandeis Brief
January 3, 2023 Brandeis Brief: January 2023 This month, Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus challenged the country’s leading law firms to confront anti-Semitism with his op-ed, “BigLaw’s Jewish Problem.” Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin, who was just named to the J100 list, explained why “American Jews must use both Jewish pride and the law to defeat anti-Semitism”. ⚠️ And don’t miss our webinar on Monday, December 5, at 12:00 […] 2023 Brandeis Brief