January 21, 2025 Harvard agrees to implement IHRA definition of antisemitism as part of settlement (Jewish Insider) Published by Jewish Insider on 01/21/2025. Harvard University has agreed to implement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism as part of a resolution to two Title VI lawsuits that it settled in federal court in Boston. One of the lawsuits, filed in May by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under […] Media Coverage
January 21, 2025 The Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education Agree with Harvard to Settle Title VI Litigation Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724, nicole@rosencomm.com Washington, D.C., January 21, 2025 — Today, Plaintiffs The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education (“JAFE”) announced that they have reached an agreement to resolve their claims against Harvard University. As part of the settlement, Harvard has agreed to implement […] Press Releases Press Room
January 16, 2025 Many colleges are settling antisemitism cases. Some Republicans blast ‘toothless’ agreements (AP News) Published by AP News on 1/16/2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza. By settling with the Education Department, the schools […] Media Coverage
January 15, 2025 January 15, 2025: Touro Law Presents Academics, Lawyers & Government Please join us at the symposium Academics, Lawyers, and Government: Who is Leading Higher Education in the 21st Century? The event will take place on January 15 and 16, 2025. LDB President Alyza Lewin will be speaking about discrimination and higher education from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Events
January 15, 2025 Universities work to settle discrimination cases in waning days of the Biden administration (Jewish Insider) Trump ran on a promise that, if reelected, U.S. universities would lose accreditation and federal support if they fail to stop the rising level of antisemitism that has roiled campuses nationwide since the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel Published by Jewish Insider on 1/13/2025 Universities across the country are scrambling to prepare for a tougher […] Media Coverage
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