Media Coverage

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Published by The Chronicle of Higher Education on 03/04/2025 The Trump administration has sent its first notice to a college that it may take away federal funding. A new federal task force on antisemitism will review more than $5 billion that Columbia University receives from the government, and will immediately consider imposing stop-work orders on […]

Published by Inside Higher Education on 03/07/2025 The Trump administration announced Friday that it’s cutting $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University as a result of what Republican officials say is “continued inaction” and failure to protect Jewish students at the Ivy League institution. The accusations were made in a joint news release from the Departments […]

Published by the The Washington Post on 03/07/2025 The Trump administration said Friday it was cutting off about $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University, saying the school has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus. The administration took action just four days after announcing that several federal agencies were investigating Columbia. The school has been in the spotlight since last academic year when pro-Palestinian protesters […]

Published by the Jewish Press on 03/04/2025 On October 26, 2024, Jonathan Hirsch and his five-year-old son entered the Jerusalem Coffee House, owned by Abdulrahim Harara, after dining at a nearby restaurant, Casper’s. After the meal, Hirsch’s son needed to use the restroom, but Casper’s did not offer such facilities to customers and directed them […]

Published by the San Francisco Standard on 03/03/2025 An Oakland man is suing a Palestinian-owned coffee shop, alleging he was thrown out for wearing a baseball cap featuring a Jewish star, in a confrontation that went viral in October. The lawsuit, filed by Jonathan Hirsch in Alameda County, accuses Oakland’s Jerusalem Coffee House of religious discrimination and […]

Published by Fox News on 03/03/2025 A California school that attempted to cover up its alleged antisemitic ethnic studies program is no longer permitted to teach the curriculum, according to a settlement reached between the school district and Jewish advocacy groups.  The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) agreed to settle the lawsuit brought by the Brandeis […]

Published by Jewish News Syndicate on 02/28/2025 The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that its federal task force to combat Jew-hatred will visit 10 university campuses that have experienced antisemitic incidents since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “The task force’s mandate is to bring the full force […]

Published by Haaretz on 2/23/2025. A Southern California public school district has settled a lawsuit brought by major Jewish organizations which alleged that the district’s new ethnic studies curriculum had been covertly developed to allow for antisemitic elements. Ethnic Studies courses examine different academic subjects through the perspectives of marginalized racial groups, exploring their cultures, […]

Published by JNS on 2/21/2025 The Santa Ana Unified School District—a more than 135-year-old public school district in southern California—settled a lawsuit on Feb. 20 brought by major Jewish organizations. The district, which operates 50 schools with some 36,000 students, agreed to pause several of its ethnic studies courses and remove antisemitic content from the […]

Published by EDSource on 2/21/2025 To avoid further embarrassing and expensive litigation, Santa Ana Unified has agreed to terminate three staff-created high school ethnic studies courses starting next fall and to start again from scratch. Next time, according to a settlement released Thursday, the district will comply with the state’s open meeting law it sought […]

Published by Jewish Press on 2/07/2025 The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced on Thursday that it will establish a team of nearly 20 lawyers and legal staff to focus on litigating cases of antisemitism. This initiative will be supported by external counsel from prominent national law firms. The new legal […]