January 15, 2025 How to Protect Civil Rights in Schools Without a Department of Education: Fmr. Assistant Sec. Kenneth L. Marcus (Epoch TV) Published on 12/14/2024 How to Protect Civil Rights in Schools Without a Department of Education: Fmr. Assistant Sec. Kenneth L. Marcus Media Coverage
January 15, 2025 Amid war and an election, the Jewish mainstream bends to the right — and not just on Israel (JTA) Published by JTA on 12/15/24 As head of the nonprofit Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Kenneth Marcus was early — critics would say premature — in using aggressive legal tactics to fight antisemitism on college campuses and other public spaces. The former assistant secretary for civil rights in the first Trump administration, Marcus remembers when […] Media Coverage
December 18, 2024 Lawmakers, health care providers raise alarm about growing antisemitism in medical field (Jewish Insider) Published by Jewish Insider on 12/18/24 Rep. Jamie Raskin said he was ‘shocked and astonished’ by the degree of anti-Jewish discrimination among health care providers Speaking on a panel on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, lawmakers, medical professionals and Jewish community advocates sounded the alarm about the spread of antisemitism in the health care field, both within […] Media Coverage
November 27, 2024 Occidental College Settles OCR Complaint (Inside Higher Ed) Published by Inside Higher Ed on 11/27/24 Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Under the settlement, reached with […] Media Coverage
November 26, 2024 ADL and the Brandeis Center Settle Title VI Complaint after Occidental College Agrees to Sweeping Reforms to Prevent Campus Antisemitism Contact: Cara Herman, cherman@brandeiscenter.com New York, NY, November 26, 2024: Occidental College has agreed to take a series of steps to address and prevent antisemitism on campus as part of a sweeping settlement agreement reached in response to a federal Title VI complaint filed by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for […] Press Releases
November 26, 2024 ADL, Brandeis Center Reach Settlement With Occidental College (Jewish Journal) Published by the Jewish Journal on 11/26/24 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law reached a settlement agreement with Occidental College over a Title VI complaint filed to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that the college failed to properly address antisemitic incidents on campus. […] Media Coverage
November 26, 2024 Occidental College reaches agreement with Dept. of Education over Title VI complaint (Jewish Insider) Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/26/24. In response to a federal Title VI complaint filed against Occidental College in April alleging a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli students, the Los Angeles-based private liberal arts college agreed on Tuesday to implement a series of initiatives to mend the campus climate, including the adoption of […] Media Coverage
November 26, 2024 The Biden Education Department’s legacy on campus antisemitism (Jewish Insider) Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/26/2024 With just under two months left in office, Biden administration appointees are making wish lists of what they hope to achieve in the limited time they have left. At the Department of Education, Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary for civil rights, knows she won’t make it through her […] Media Coverage
November 15, 2024 Senate Republicans question Department of Education Middle East studies grants (Jewish Insider) Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/15/2024 Two Senate Republicans wrote to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Thursday, raising concerns about federal funding for Middle East studies allegedly provided to anti-Israel professors on college campuses. The letter, from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) focused on National Resource Centers and Foreign Language Area Studies […] Media Coverage
November 11, 2024 Harvard Antisemitism Lawsuit Cleared to Proceed to Discovery Phase (The Algemeiner) Published by The Algemeiner on 11/11/2024 A lawsuit accusing Harvard University of ignoring antisemitism has been cleared to proceed to discovery, a phase of the case which may unearth damaging revelations about how college officials discussed and crafted policy responses to anti-Jewish hatred before and after Hamas’s massacre across southern Israel last Oct. 7. The […] Media Coverage