October 25, 2021 Jewish Rights Groups Call Out D.C. Climate Group for Its Alleged Anti-Semitic Stance (Newsweek) Newsweek BY CARLY MAYBERRY ON 10/22/21 AT 6:13 PM EDT ~ Jewish Rights groups are condemning what they see as anti-Semitic sentiment by the Washington, D.C. affiliate of climate group Sunrise Movement for their refusal to participate in Saturday’s voting rights rally because “Zionist groups” are taking part. The Anti-Defamation League, pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs and Israel on […] Media Coverage Press Room
October 12, 2021 County Jewish Federation establishes hotline to report anti-Semitism (Hudson Valley One) Hudson Valley One /by Violet Snow/September 30, 2021/ If you experience, or witness first-hand, an anti-Semitic act in Ulster County, you have somewhere to turn for help. The Jewish Federation of Ulster County (UCJF) has launched a hotline, (845) 859-9858, which will be monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to accept reports […] Media Coverage Press Room
October 8, 2021 Universities push anti-Israel statements, professors push back (Forward) Forward ~ by Rachel Hale, October 7, 2021~ Senior Chloe Levian has spent little over a week back at the University of California, Los Angeles, but has already added an additional stressor to her workload: handling anti-Zionism on campus. “Israel’s definitely a divisive topic here. The department statements have just made it very difficult to want […] Media Coverage Press Room
October 7, 2021 LDB Mourns the Passing of Neal Sher The Louis D. Brandeis Center Mourns the Passing of Neal M. Sher A Member of Our Legal Advisory Board The Louis D. Brandeis Center mourns the passing of long-time advisory board member Neal Sher, an active member of the LDB community and a prominent attorney who formerly headed the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of […] Media Coverage Press Room
October 7, 2021 New Website Allows Students to Report Anti-Semitic Incidents (Inside Higher Ed) New Website Allows Students to Report Anti-Semitic Incidents ~ By Maria Carrasco October 7, 2021 ~ A new online portal allows Jewish students and others to report anti-Semitic incidents and hate crimes on college campuses. The website, ReportCampusHate.org, was created by Hillel International, the Anti-Defamation League and the Secure Community Network, a safety and security initiative […] Media Coverage Press Room
September 28, 2021 It’s the Bullying, Stupid: The Anti-Israel Lobby Targets Jewish Kids on Campus By Jeff Robbins Creators.com With a new academic year underway, Jewish college students across America are in receipt of yet more empirical evidence that the anxiety they are experiencing is not a figment of their imaginations. A poll released last week by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law found that more than 65% of […] Media Coverage Press Room
September 20, 2021 Everybody Hates the Jews (Common Sense with Bari Weiss on Substack) Substack – Common Sense with Bari Weiss ~ Bari Weiss – September 20, 2021 ~ Everybody hates the Jews. That’s the refrain from the brilliant satirist Tom Lehrer in “National Brotherhood Week,” a song that I had memorized by the time I was ten, given that I was raised by the kind of dad who made sure […] Media Coverage Press Room
September 20, 2021 Survey of Jewish fraternity and sorority finds most respondents experienced antisemitism on campus (JTA) JTA BY BEN SALES SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 5:59 PM — A survey of members of AEPi and AEPhi, the most prominent national Jewish fraternity and sorority, found that large numbers of respondents have experienced antisemitism on campus. The survey also found that about half of respondents have felt the need to hide their Jewish identity on campus […] Media Coverage Press Room
September 3, 2021 If you are going to spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then you should remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’ by Kenneth L. Marcus (JTA) JTA ~ KENNETH L. MARCUS (September 3, 2021 ~ 10:00 AM) (JTA) — Deborah Lipstadt, recently named by President Joe Biden as the U.S. Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, won’t just combat anti-Semitism but may well eliminate it. And that would be a mistake. To be clear, the Emory University historian is a fierce opponent […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 18, 2021 Family of slain teenager makes headway in decades-old terror funding lawsuit (Jewish Insider) Jewish Insider ~ By Melissa Weiss [August 18, 2021] David Boim was 17 years old when he was shot and killed by a Hamas terrorist at a West Bank bus stop in May 1996. The legal battle waged by his parents to hold accountable U.S.-based organizations that contributed funds to Hamas has lasted far longer than the […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 9, 2021 “Why we filed a discrimination complaint against Stanford” by Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin (The Stanford Daily) The Stanford Daily ~ From The Community | Why we filed a discrimination complaint against Stanford by Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin ~ Ronald Albucher is a psychiatrist and former CAPS director. Sheila Levin is a former clinical care manager for CAPS and an eating disorder specialist.The two filed complaints in June with state and federal civil […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 6, 2021 Jewish advocacy groups demand action from Hopkins concerning TA’s tweets (The News-Letter) The Johns Hopkins News-Letter ~ By MIN-SEO KIM | August 6, 2021 ~ Earlier this year, the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) began an investigation into Rasha Anayah, a graduate student and teaching assistant (TA) for Applied Chemical Equilibrium and Reactivity with Lab, after reports surfaced that several of her tweets targeted Zionist and Jewish students. In the […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 29, 2021 Amid increasingly hostile campus environment, CAMERA teaches strategies to combat anti-Israel hate (JNS) JNS.org ~ by JNS Staff, July 28, 2021 ~ Dozens of college students from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and elsewhere gathered online for the annual CAMERA on Campus conference aimed at empowering young adults to be advocates for Israel in an increasingly hostile environment. As speaker, professor and author Gil Troy told […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 27, 2021 Are the anti-BDS laws aimed at Ben & Jerry’s constitutional? (The Forward) The Forward ~ By Arno Rosenfeld [July 27, 2021, The Forward] The Arkansas Times, a small monthly in Little Rock, hasn’t written a single article about Ben & Jerry’s recent decision to end sales in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Yet despite running a newspaper that he called “about as local and provincial as you can be,” publisher Alan Leveritt is […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 23, 2021 Will US anti-BDS laws cause a financial meltdown for Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever? (JNS) Cleveland Jewish News [by Sean Savage, July 22, 2021] The recent announcement that Ben & Jerry’s plans to end its sale of ice-cream in “occupied Palestinian territory,” primarily Judea and Samaria as well as eastern Jerusalem, has stirred a fierce reaction, including potential legal and financial repercussions for the ice-cream maker and its parent company […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 19, 2021 Jewish groups calls for Johns Hopkins to break silence on TA’s anti-Semitic posts (Campus Reform) Campus Reform Ben Zeisloft | Student Editor (Friday, July 16, 2021 2:30 PM) ~ Johns Hopkins University is not seriously addressing a teaching assistant’s anti-Semitic posts that indicated she may give Jewish students failing grades. That accusation comes from groups such as StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Both […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 16, 2021 Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’ (The Forward) The Forward Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’ by Stewart Ain (Forward ~ July 15, 2021) Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reportedly concluded its investigation into the actions of a teaching assistant who asked in a tweet last Nov. 15 if she could lower the grade […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 15, 2021 Jewish groups send letter to Johns Hopkins demanding more action over antisemitism allegations (Baltimore Jewish Times) Baltimore Jewish Times ~ By Jesse Berman July 14, 2021 ~ A July 9 letter addressed to administrators of Johns Hopkins University is demanding new action be taken some eight months after a Johns Hopkins teaching assistant created a social media post viewed as antisemitic. In November 2020, a teaching assistant, under the Twitter account […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 14, 2021 Brandeis Center and StandWithUs Demand Action from Johns Hopkins University! (Press Release) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Johns Hopkins Fails to Publicly Condemn or Address Teaching Assistant’s Poll on How to Grade ‘Zionists’ Brandeis Center and StandWithUs Demand Action (Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2021) – After more than six months and no public action by Johns Hopkins University to address its teaching assistant’s overtly anti-Semitic posts, the Louis […] Media Coverage Press Releases Press Room
July 14, 2021 We Will Not Be Silent (The Jewish Press) The Jewish Press ~ By Rabbi Mark N. Wildes ~ (Jewish Press – July 14, 2021) Any time you stand between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, sharing an afternoon with thousands of Jews, you can’t help but have feelings of pride. At the same time, it is sad that we need a rally in […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 8, 2021 The Louis D. Brandeis Center Welcomes Rachel Lerman as Senior Counsel Washington, D.C., July 8, 2021: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is pleased to announce the appointment of L. Rachel Lerman as Senior Counsel. Ms. Lerman is a nationally renowned appellate litigator who has spent over 25 years briefing and arguing state and national appeals. Ms. Lerman has been LDB’s […] Media Coverage Press Room