January 25, 2022 Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C. (New York Times) New York Times By Adam Liptak and Anemona Hartocollis Jan. 24, 2022 ~ WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are lawful, raising serious doubts about the future of affirmative action in higher education. The court has repeatedly upheld similar programs, most recently […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 24, 2022 Brandeis Center Commends U.S. Supreme Court for Granting Cert! Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 Brandeis Center Commends U.S. Supreme Court for Agreeing to Decide Whether Harvard and UNC Admissions Policies Discriminate Washington, D.C., January 24, 2022: The Brandeis Center applauds the Supreme Court for this morning’s announcement that it would grant cert, as the Center had urged, in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, as […] Media Coverage Press Releases Press Room
January 20, 2022 “AMP should inspire dialogue, not incite division,” by Jacob Baime (The Times of Israel) The Times of Israel Less than two months after Zahra Billoo, a longtime leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), lambasted Jewish houses of worship before a packed room at the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) convention in Chicago, a Texas synagogue was targeted by an Islamist hostage-taker. On November 27, 2021, Billoo warned 3,000 AMP conference-goers to […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 18, 2022 ‘The FBI got it wrong’: Jewish leaders criticise law enforcement statement on synagogue siege (Independent) Independent ‘The FBI got it wrong’: Jewish leaders criticise law enforcement statement on synagogue siege Failure to understand antisemitism ‘is something of a pattern with law enforcement in the United States’, Jewish civil rights leader says Bevan Hurley Joe Biden says Texas synagogue attack was ‘an act of terror’ Jewish leaders have condemned the FBI for claiming the Texas […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 14, 2022 ‘Deeply Troubling’: Federal Commissioner Addresses Antisemitism Allegations in Stanford Diversity Trainings (Algemeiner) Algemeiner ~ By Dion J. Pierre | January 13, 2022 @ 4:44 pm ~ A commissioner for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this week addressed allegations that Stanford University’s diversity and inclusion trainings fostered a hostile work environment for Jews, calling them “troubling.” The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights filed a complaint in […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 13, 2022 Battling Antisemitism on Campus (Hadassah Magazine) Hadassah Magazine ~ By Rahel Musleah January 2022 Image from Alamy When Max Price entered Tufts University in 2018, excited to study international relations and economics, he did not expect that his college experience would include being intimidated, harassed and marginalized on the Medford, Mass., campus. In his years at the university, he has been slandered in […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 12, 2022 EEOC Commissioner Calls Allegations of Anti-Semitism at Stanford “Deeply Troubling” Press Release Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 In First Public Comments About Case, EEOC Commissioner Calls Allegations of Anti-Semitism at Stanford “Deeply Troubling” Washington, D.C., January 12, 2022: During a panel on rising anti-Semitism and ways to address it in the workplace, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioner Andrea Lucas, for the very first time, […] Media Coverage Press Releases Press Room
January 12, 2022 Federal civil-rights officials raise alarm over ‘horrifying statistics’ on anti-Semitism in workplace (JNS) JNS (January 12, 2022 / JNS) With a general rise in anti-Semitic violence last year, instances of anti-Semitism have also been on the rise in work and education settings, something the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is closely monitoring according to senior commission members who were guests on Monday of a virtual panel discussion held by the […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 10, 2022 Campus Anti-Semitism and US Law (The Times of Israel) The Times of Israel January 10, 2022 ~ To learn more, watch the video of Alyza Lewin’s recent presentation, “Is Today’s Campus Climate Safe for Jews?” As a child growing up in the Deep South during the upheavals of the 1960s, I saw firsthand how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became a powerful force for […] Media Coverage Press Room
December 21, 2021 Legal watchdog demands action after a Duke University pro-Israel group is denied recognition (JTA) JTA — A prominent Jewish civil rights group is demanding that the administration of Duke University override the student government after its president denied recognition to a campus pro-Israel group. In November, the student government president, Christina Wang, decided to veto a student Senate vote to charter Duke SSI, the campus chapter of the international campus Zionist […] Media Coverage Press Room