April 10, 2025 Judge allows UC Berkeley antisemitism lawsuit to proceed (The Hill) 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 […] Media Coverage
April 10, 2025 UC Berkeley Sheds Some Antisemitism Claims by Jewish Groups (Bloomberg Law) 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 […] Media Coverage
April 3, 2025 UC Berkeley Antisemitism Lawsuit Can Proceed, Judge Rules (Reuters) 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 […] Media Coverage
March 27, 2025 After nixing of Education Department, legal experts divided about efforts to combat campus antisemitism (Jewish Insider) 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 […] Media Coverage
March 27, 2025 Trump signs executive order to eliminate Education Department (JNS) 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 […] Media Coverage
March 27, 2025 Renewed push to reshape ethnic studies with oversight and new standards (EdSource) 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 […] Media Coverage
March 27, 2025 ‘We just didn’t matter,’ Jewish students say of alleged antisemitism at California schools (JNS) 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 […] Media Coverage
March 24, 2025 Brandeis Center Blocks UAW From Expelling Jewish and Allied Members Who Stood Up For Israel March 24, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – In response to legal action taken by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, the United Auto Workers (UAW) Public Review Board ruled the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) cannot expel four Nassau County Legal Aid attorneys who opposed the ALAA’s virulently anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas […] Press Releases
March 20, 2025 U.S. Department of Education Opens Investigations into Anti-Semitism Complaints Against Yale, UMass-Amherst, Scripps College, American University and Fulton County (Washington, D.C., March 20, 2025) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is opening investigations into complaints filed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) against Yale University; University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Scripps College. In addition, the Department is opening complaints against […] Press Releases Press Room
March 19, 2025 ‘Erasive’ antisemitism: What America’s founding father Benjamin Rush can teach about challenging the denial of Jewish identity and history and strengthening Jewish identity (JNS) 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. […] Media Coverage