Media Coverage

Published by The New York Sun on 4/16/2025 The fiscal and political quandary facing Harvard is about as dire as it comes. Some $2.2 billion in federal funds have been frozen, and another $7 billion more is on the line. An adversarial president is threatening its non-profit status, calling it “a Political Entity.” The very […]

Published by The Boston Globe on 4/15/2025 As Harvard University prepares for a titanic showdown with the Trump administration over its academic independence, the president on Tuesday threatened the school’s tax exempt status while the first effects of a $2 billion freeze in federal funding began to be felt on campus. Others also argued that […]

Published by The New York Times on 4/15/2025 Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying to decipher what the Trump administration wanted the school to do to combat antisemitism. The government had made some straightforward demands, like requiring the school to ban masks, which are often favored by protesters. But other demands seemed […]

Published by KQED on 4/14/2025 Swastika graffiti in a campus bathroom, chants of “death to Jews,” Hamas Hello Kitty stickers and the physical assault of Jewish students. These are among the incidents detailed in discrimination complaints against California universities since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. Now, at least 17 colleges in the state are in […]

Published by The Wall Street Journal on 4/14/2025 Columbia University’s president had already been hounded out of office, but her ordeal wasn’t over. Four days after she stepped down under government pressure during fraught federal funding negotiations, Katrina Armstrong spent three hours being deposed by a government attorney in Washington, D.C. The lawyer grilled Armstrong over whether she had […]

Published by JWeekly on 4/4/2025 The legal team suing UC Berkeley over antisemitism claims in federal court marked two intermediate wins over the past week, according to one of its top attorneys. Willkie Farr & Gallagher, a prestigious law firm with offices worldwide that counts former second gentleman Doug Emhoff among its partners, joined the team representing […]

Published by The Hill on 4/2/2025 A district judge ruled Monday that an antisemitism lawsuit accusing the University of California, Berkeley of inaction regarding harassment of Jewish students can proceed.  District Judge James Donato in a 5-page ruling said the suit alleging the university violated the civil rights and equal protection rights of Jewish students could move forward. “Taken […]

Published by Bloomberg Law on 4/2/2025 Jewish groups’ allegations that the University of California, Berkeley, its law school, and other defendants discriminated against Jewish students and professors were trimmed by a federal court. The institutions must defend against claims that they violated the groups’ equal protection and free exercise rights, as well as Title VI […]

Published by Reuters on 4/2/2025 April 2 (Reuters) – A federal judge said Jewish groups may pursue a lawsuit accusing the University of California, Berkeley, of tolerating an “unrelenting” stream of antisemitic harassment toward Jewish students and faculty. In a decision made public on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Donato said two Jewish groups may […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 03/21/2025 Just hours before President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education, the department’s Office for Civil Rights opened its latest batch of antisemitism investigations into several universities. Jewish legal and education experts were left divided over how the […]