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Published by JNS on 6/8/2025 Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, signed an executive order at Tribeca Synagogue in Lower Manhattan on Sunday recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of Jew-hatred on behalf of the city. “The City of New York recognizes, and city agencies shall consider as appropriate, the […]

Published by the Algemeiner on 6/6/2025 Hatred for Israel, often motivated by the spread of misinformation about the Jewish state’s history and conduct in Gaza, is fueling violence against Jews in the US and elsewhere, according to experts who spoke with The Algemeiner. On Sunday, an assailant firebombed a pro-Israel rally with Molotov cocktails and a “makeshift” flamethrower […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 6/6/2025 Kimberly Richey, the nominee to be the assistant secretary of education for civil rights, said that the Department of Education should look at amending Title VI regulations and issuing new guidance to address the surge of antisemitism on campuses nationwide since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel. […]

Published by NBC4 on 6/4/2025 As the nation continues to heal from a wave of antisemitic attacks, Jewish communities find themselves living in fear. One Maryland rabbi says he and his community are constantly looking over their shoulders. “Throughout the whole Jewish community in general, there’s a whole sense of apprehension and heightened sense of […]

Published by JNS on 5/27/2025 The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into California State Polytechnic, Humboldt, last week for alleged Jew-hatred under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  The investigation is in response to a March complaint, which the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus […]

Published by ABC7 on 05/27/2025 ARCATA, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into a complaint filed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus against Cal Poly Humboldt alleging the university fostered an environment that permitted verbal and physical harassment, exclusion and […]

Published by The Chronicle on 5/22/2025 That Jew-hatred has infested college campuses is the fundamental premise of the Trump administration’s sprawling assault on the sector. The Biden administration shared this conviction — in the wake of the 2023 congressional hearings on campus antisemitism, Biden ramped up “actions to counter antisemitism on college campuses and protect […]

Published by JNS on 5/21/2025 The computer software conglomerate Adobe officially recognized a Jewish employee resource group at the company, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced on Wednesday. “The Brandeis Center applauds Adobe’s Jewish employees on the establishment of an officially recognized ERG—the Jewish Employee Network—joining Adobe’s other ethnicity-based ERGs,” said Kenneth […]