Media Coverage

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 […]

Published by JNS on 03/20/2025 (March 20, 2025 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin eliminating the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday in the administration’s latest effort to slash the size of government. Trump announced that half of the employees of the 4,200-person department had accepted buyouts to leave their […]

Published by EdSource on 03/11/2025 Thirty-one legislators, led by the Legislative Jewish Caucus, are calling for a do-over on teaching ethnic studies after a half-dozen years of strife. The authors are convinced that flaws in a voluntary model curriculum have led to complaints and lawsuits alleging that some districts are using biased and antisemitic course […]

Published by JNS on 03/10/2025 The Anti-Defamation League, Jewish on Campus, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed complaints earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that three California schools—Scripps College, Etiwanda Intermediate School and California State Polytechnic, Humboldt—violated the civil rights of Jews and Israelis. Students at […]

Published by JNS on 3/19/2025 This column has been adapted from a March 3 speech by Alyza D. Lewin at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Four years after Dr. Benjamin Rush founded Dickinson College, he attended a Jewish wedding. It was the wedding of Rachel Phillips to Michael Levy, held in Philadelphia in June 1787. […]