April 5, 2021 April’s Brandeis Brief is Here! Brandeis Brief – April 2021 Brandeis Brief: April 2021 We begin this Brief with good news from Tufts University, where courage, tenacity, and legal advocacy prevailed last month when Students for Justice in Palestine dropped its efforts to impeach Jewish student leader Max Price. We then turn to more positive developments at the University of Texas and […] 2021 Brandeis Brief
March 2, 2021 March’s Brandeis Brief is Here! Read the Brandies Brief here. More good news in another Brandeis Center case: Students for Justice in Palestine backed down at Tufts University after the Brandeis Center exposed SJP’s harassment of LDB client Max Price based on Price’s Jewish identity and beliefs. SJP withdrew its impeachment complaint, and the hearing scheduled against Price was canceled. […] 2021 Brandeis Brief
February 2, 2021 February’s Brandeis Brief As the Biden administration begins its first 100 days in office, Kenneth L. Marcus reflects on Biden’s new tools to combat global Jew-hatred, the best ways for the new administration to address domestic terrorism, and the outgoing administration’s last OCR report. Alyza D. Lewin speaks out on Zionism’s centrality to Jewish identity, as well as […] 2021 Brandeis Brief
December 31, 2020 January’s Brandeis Brief Do you think that anti-Semitism from the far right is nothing to worry about? Or that the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is losing steam? If so, this issue of the Brandeis Brief will surprise you. This Brief covers both topics as well as how one brave Illinois student views the battle against anti-Semitism on campus. […] 2021 Brandeis Brief
December 8, 2020 December 2020 – Brandeis Brief Good news: This month the Brandeis Center’s legal case at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) enjoyed two successes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) agreed to open an investigation, while the University issued an important joint statement with LDB and allied organizations. Meanwhile, Scholars for Peace in the […] 2020 Brandeis Brief
December 8, 2020 December’s Brandeis Brief Good news: This month the Brandeis Center’s legal case at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) enjoyed two successes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) agreed to open an investigation, while the University issued an important joint statement with LDB and allied organizations. Meanwhile, Scholars for Peace in the […] 2020 Brandeis Brief
November 9, 2020 November 2020 – Brandeis Brief The Brandeis Center’s legal complaint against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supports Jewish students who have faced an unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic harassment. Meanwhile, in Washington, a historic State Department decision culminated a years-long campaign led by Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin. Also this month, LDB participated in the first-ever government-sponsored conference on combatting virtual anti-Semitism and provided insightful legal analysis […] 2020 Brandeis Brief
October 13, 2020 October 2020 – Brandeis Brief October 2020 Brandeis Brief ~ Due to a resurgence of anti-Semitism throughout the country, the Brandeis Center is expanding scope and staff to increase our efforts. We have been hard at work this month on numerous initiatives in the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism across the nation. OCR’s recent resolution of Title VI anti-Semitism claims at […] 2020 Brandeis Brief
October 5, 2020 September 2020 – Brandeis Brief June saw exciting changes for the Louis D. Brandeis Center, with the naming of Alyza D. Lewin as the Brandeis Center’s newest President. Ms. Lewin’s appointment follows the confirmation of her predecessor and LDB Founder, Kenneth Marcus, to the position of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education. 2020 Brandeis Brief
July 25, 2018 July 2018 – New Leadership at the Brandeis Center June saw exciting changes for the Louis D. Brandeis Center, with the naming of Alyza D. Lewin as the Brandeis Center’s newest President. Ms. Lewin’s appointment follows the confirmation of her predecessor and LDB Founder, Kenneth Marcus, to the position of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education. 2018 Brandeis Brief