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January 3, 2024 EMET Webinar: Antisemitism in Academia (1/10/24)

Register here to hear Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus among a panel of experts discussing “Antisemitism in Academia.” The webinar takes place Wednesday, January 10 at noon EST. While pervasive antisemitism on America’s college campuses is nothing new, the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th unleashed a storm of Jew-hatred not seen since […]

Events

January 3, 2024 Fighting the Hamas Monster on Campus (inFocus)

Published by Jewish Policy Center’s inFocus magazine’s winter 2024 issue Editor’s Note: This conversation is excerpted from a panel discussion, “Enriching the U.S.-Israel Alliance by Combating Antisemitism,” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC on October 23, 2023, even before the full weight of events was felt. Kenneth L. Marcus is the founder and chairman […]

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January 2, 2024 Jewish group sues Berkeley for ‘longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism’ (Campus Reform)

Published 12/27/23 by Campus Reform; Story by Patrick McDonald In late November, several Jewish organizations filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, alleging a ‘longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism.’ The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in San Francisco by the Louis D. Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. […]

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January 2, 2024 Has The Congressional Hearing on Antisemitism Woken People Up? (Jewish Press)

Published 12/28/23 by JewishPress.com; Q&A by Alan Zeitlin A Q&A with Kenneth Marcus Kenneth L. Marcus is at the forefront of the battle against antisemitism in the U.S. He is the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law which handles numerous complaints of antisemitism from Jewish college students […]

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January 2, 2024 Rejecting Misconceptions of the Hamas-Israel War (JNS)

Published by JNS on 12/29/23; Authored by The Focus Project The IDF follows specific rules of engagement to avoid civilian casualties—a challenge made almost impossible as terrorist infrastructure is embedded in and under residential buildings, schools, mosques and hospitals. More than 14 million civilians were killed during World War II, excluding the millions of Jews and others […]

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December 26, 2023 The real philanthropy success story

Published by eJewish Philanthropy 12/19/23; Opinion by Yossi Prager After the brutal events of Oct. 7 and onset of the war between Israel and Hamas, funders, organizations and individual volunteers instantaneously leaped to action from a standing start, their on-the-fly efforts saving lives and raising the morale of a nation with many reasons to mourn. […]

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December 22, 2023 Brandeis Center ramps up lawsuits as university students face rampant antisemitism

Published 12/22/23 by Ynet News; Story by Clint Van Winkle American NGO files numerous legal complaints against Ivy League universities saying their neglectful nature toward rising antisemitism cannot continue Antisemitism has been on the rise across U.S. college campuses since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war. In recent months, reports […]

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December 18, 2023 Key Anti-Semitism Issues in the Post-10/7 Workplace (LDB webinar, 12/21/23)

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December 18, 2023 As antisemitism spikes on campuses, remember that colleges are also workplaces (The Hill)

Op-ed authored by Brandeis Center Director of Corporate Initiatives Rory Lancman, published in The Hill on 12/18/23 The scenes of Jewish students experiencing antisemitism on college campuses are frightening. But colleges are also workplaces, and the antisemitism that Jewish staff and faculty are experiencing is no less frightening for its intensity, their inability to avoid it and their […]