September 20, 2017 Turning Over a New Leaf at UW The new Chair of the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), the student government body at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW), formally apologized to the UW Jewish community for her actions last April. Media Coverage Press Room
September 18, 2017 LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives Aviva Vogelstein in Minneapolis LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives, Aviva Vogelstein, will meet with and speak to students at the LDB chapters at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and University of Minnesota Law School, on September 18 and September 19, respectively. Events
September 18, 2017 Our World Today and in The Future The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia will welcome LDB’s Human rights expert Kenneth L. Marcus to its lunchtime discussion series in Fairfax, Virginia, where he will discuss his book on “The Definition of Anti-Semitism.” Events
September 14, 2017 LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus at Cornell On Thursday, September 14, LDB President & General Counsel Kenneth L. Marcus will address the LDB Law Student Chapter at Cornell University on the topic of, “Making Dollars or Making Change: Big Law, Human Rights, and Becoming a Purposeful Lawyer.” Events
September 12, 2017 Prof. Avi Bell at UC Berkeley On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, the LDB chapter at UC Berkeley School of Law will host Professor Abraham Bell, to speak on Terrorism and the Law. Professor Bell teaches at the University of San Diego School of Law Bar Ilan University, and teaches and writes in the areas of property, copyright, international law, and economic analysis of law. Events
September 11, 2017 Human Rights and Anti-Semitism in the Current Climate LDB’s Kenneth L. Marcus will visit the North Carolina Hillel to address “Human Rights and Anti-Semitism in the Current Climate.” This event, to be held in the Genome Science Building at UNC-Chapel Hill, is hosted by NC Hillel and cosponsored by: Carolina Center for Jewish Studies… Events
September 7, 2017 Eric Fusfield at University of Virginia In the wake of recent events in Charlottesville and on UVA’s campus, Eric Fusfield, Deputy Director of the B’nai B’rith Center for Human Rights and Public Policy and Director of Legislative Affairs for B’nai B’rith International, will speak at the UVA School on Law on the topic of Global Anti-Semitism, Law, and Policy. Events
September 6, 2017 SJP Sanctioned at UC Irvine Following years of disruptive behavior by the University of California at Irvine (UCI)’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), UCI announced last week that it has sanctioned SJP “with disciplinary probation for two academic years.” T Media Coverage Press Room
September 3, 2017 California University Puts Students For Justice in Palestine on Probation The University of California, Irvine, has sanctioned its local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine with disciplinary probation for two academic years for disrupting an event held by a pro-Israel student group on campus the evening of May 10, 2017. Media Coverage Press Room
August 21, 2017 Indiana University Reports on Social Media Anti-Semitism “With the advent of the Internet, antisemitic messages are disseminated more quickly and widely than ever before, and often go unchallenged,” opens a new report from the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) based out of Indiana University. Media Coverage Press Room