September 20, 2022 General Counsel Rachel Lerman Appears on the Portia Project Podcast On August 29, 2022, Brandeis Center General Counsel and Vice Chair Rachel Lerman appeared on the Portia Project podcast. In the series 46th episode, Lerman discusses the start of her legal journey, the different positions she has held in her legal career, and her work at the Brandeis Center. The Portia Project podcast interviews different […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 2, 2022 OCR sends message on anti-Semitism (The Hill) By Kenneth L. Marcus, opinion contributor to The Hill . Days ago, the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office, OCR, resolved a major anti-Semitism case at Kyrene School District #28 in Arizona. Not only did OCR call out anti-Semitism in this one school district, it used this primary school case to fire a shot across the bow […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 22, 2022 Liberated Ethnic Studies Group Aims to End-run Newsom Law (Jewish Journal) Op-ed by Brandeis Center Vice Chair L. Rachel Lerman published in Jewish Journal on June 21, 2022. . Los Angeles parents and teachers recently announced they are suing the Los Angeles Unified School District teachers’ union to keep antisemitism out of California high schools. How and why would antisemitism ever be taught and promoted in […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 21, 2022 Biden administration races to co-opt the powerful ‘parental rights’ movement (Washington Times) Opinion article by Kenneth L. Marcus published June 20, 2022 in the Washington Times. . Last week, the Biden administration announced the creation of a new National Parents and Families Engagement Council. The press release trumpets that the council’s purpose is to strengthen relations between parents and schools. No sophisticated observer believes that this is true. […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 21, 2022 This Juneteenth, parents need the right to speak up about school curriculum (Fox News) Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus published on FoxNews.com, June 20, 2022. . A father has sued his daughter’s posh L.A. Brentwood School, alleging “bait and switch” and civil rights violations. The school had responded to George Floyd’s murder by ditching its values – its traditional curriculum – in favor of an anti-racist perspective. Harper Lee’s To […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 15, 2022 Morningstar drops anti-Israel tool, but is it enough? (Jerusalem Post) Authored by LDB Vice Chair L. Rachel Lerman and published in Jerusalem Post on June 14, 2022. . Multi-billion-dollar investment firm Morningstar announced it will discontinue using a product employed by its subsidiary, Sustainalytics, to rate a company’s commitment to corporate responsibility. The decision comes after an independent investigation deemed the product biased against Israel. . […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 31, 2022 Will President Biden Blink at Anti-Semitism at NYU? (New York Sun) Opinion article by Kenneth L. Marcus published May 28, 2022 in the New York Sun The Biden administration will face at the end of the month a test. New York University is nearing the end of its monitoring period under its settlement of a federal antisemitism complaint filed during the Trump administration. The Biden administration will be […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 29, 2022 My Fellow Jewish Americans, Happy Rodney Dangerfield Month (South Florida Sun Sentinel) Opinion Article by Kenneth L. Marcus, published May 28, 2022 in the South Florida Sun Sentinel . Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Jewish American Heritage Month. The month is almost over. Nevertheless, Reader, I know I am the first to greet you. . Proclaimed by President George W. Bush in […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 19, 2022 “The Buffalo Massacre Was More Than Meets the Eye,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus | May 19, 2022 ~ The Buffalo Massacre Was More Than Meets the Eye No matter how you look at it, this brutal act was horrific. Beyond the immediate victims, the shooting has spread terror throughout America, especially in Buffalo’s Black community. Kenneth L. Marcus Photo by Scott […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 13, 2022 New York Sun: Affirmative Action After the Court’s Abortion Decision As the Harvard case demonstrates, elite universities have taken Supreme Court decisions as license to conduct racially preferential admissions decisions. . OPINION by Kenneth L. Marcus in the New York Sun, May 13, 2022 . Buried in the leaked Supreme Court draft abortion opinion, Justice Samuel Alito discusses “workability.” He explains the court should consider […] Op-Eds Press Room