Brandeis Brief

Brandeis Brief: April 2022 Advocates for equality, coexistence, and peace all screamed for our hard work on the legal case against ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s and parent company Unilever. Here’s more LDB news you may have missed this month: Our client, Avi Zinger of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, showed in a moving op-ed the harm from anti-Israel […]

Brandeis Brief: March 2022 The calendar’s shortest month is jam-packed with news from the Brandeis Center: The U.S. Dept. of Education opened an investigation into Brooklyn College based on an important anti-Semitism complaint we filed, highlighting the new harassment Jewish students face – being vilified as “privileged white oppressors.” The Brandeis Center provided strategic and legal guidance to Duke Univ.’s […]

Brandeis Brief: February 2022 We hope your year is off to a good start. This month the Brandeis Center hosted a discussion about combatting anti-Semitism in the workplace with members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC Commissioners discussed different forms of anti-Semitic discrimination in the workplace and highlighted the “deeply troubling” […]

Brandeis Brief January 2022 We hope you have all had a joyous holiday season. This month LDB Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus wrote about the best news in the fight against anti-Semitism this year and the importance of humility. LDB stood up for students at Duke University when their student government revoked the registration of their chapter of Students Supporting Israel […]

Brandeis Brief: December 2021 This month, in two important podcasts, Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus explained how the law can be used to combat the new forms of anti-Semitism that are appearing on college campuses. LDB President Alyza D. Lewin joined other civil rights and Jewish community leaders warning about the dangerous rise in left-wing […]

browser Brandeis Brief: November 2021 This month, the Brandeis Center demanded that the University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMASS Boston) investigate an event held by Students For Justice in Palestine, where an innocent bystander who was identified as a “Zionist” was spat on, shoved and called a “Nazi” and “pig.” Also in this issue, LDB urges the United […]

October’s Brandeis Brief! Brandeis Brief: October 2021 LDB continues to expose and respond to the endemic problem of anti-Semitism in higher education. In response to LDB Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus’ latest essay in the Washington Post, the President of Johns Hopkins University finally acknowledged with appropriate forcefulness that JHU takes anti-Semitism seriously. Previously, in response to complaints […]

  Read the entire Brandeis Brief here. Brandeis Brief: September 2021 Why did Sheila Levin and Dr. Ronald Albucher file their landmark Brandeis Center complaint against Stanford University? The Stanford mental health professionals explain why in this issue of the Brandeis Brief. Kenneth L. Marcus gives that case context in a new review. Also in this […]

~ Brandeis Brief: August 2021 ~ Last month, the Brandeis Center co-authored a letter alongside StandWithUs to Johns Hopkins University demanding action in response to a teaching assistant who shared anti-Semitic social media posts inciting hatred against Jewish students. The instructor tweeted, “ethical dilemma: if you have to grade a zionist students [sic] exam, do […]

LDB Holds Stanford Accountable For Anti-Semitism In DEI Program And Responds To The Gaza Conflict – July Brandeis Brief Last month the Center filed a federal complaint against Stanford University on behalf of two Jewish mental health care providers after concerns about anti-Semitism in staff diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings were left unaddressed by the […]