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March 9, 2023 Brandeis Commends Risch Senate Letter on Anti-Semitism in Middle East Studies Programs

Washington, D.C. (March 9, 2023) – The Louis D. Brandeis Center commends Senator Risch (R-ID) and his senate colleagues on their recent letter to the Department of Education, highlighting concerns about taxpayer-funded anti-Semitism on college campuses. The letter to Secretary Cardona, signed by fifteen U.S. senators, questions whether the Department of Education is properly enforcing […]

February 28, 2023 Brandeis Center Urges Supreme Court to Right Its Wrong and Protect Employee Rights to Religious Observance in Groff Case

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 . Washington, D.C. (February 28, 2023): The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law today submitted an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect employee rights to religious observance in Groff v. Dejoy, a case about a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) worker who was forced to resign […]

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January 9, 2023 Statement from U.S. Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights on Title VI Protection from Discrimination Based on Shared Ancestry or Ethnic Characteristics

Recognizing the “rise in reports of anti-Semitic incidents,” Assistant Secretary Catherine E. Lhamon emphasized on January 4, 2023, that current Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) guidance “affirms OCR’s commitment to complying with” former President Donald Trump’s “Executive Order 13899 on Combating Anti-Semitism.” As Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus has explained in […]

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December 13, 2022 Brandeis Center Calls on FBI to Correct Erroneous Hate Crimes Data

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 . Washington, D.C. (December 13, 2022):  The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law calls on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to correct an important new report that understates anti-Semitic hate crimes. Today, the FBI released hate crime data which indicates, erroneously, that hate crimes against Jews decreased last year. The reason […]

September 16, 2022 Brandeis Center/Jewish on Campus call UVM Garimella’s ‘dismissive’ response to federal investigation into anti-Semitism ‘astonishingly inadequate’ and ‘offensive’

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724   . FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE . Yesterday, after news broke that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating anti-Semitism at the University of Vermont, President Suresh V. Garimella sent his university community an astonishingly inadequate and offensive response to the Title VI anti-Semitism complaint that the Louis […]

September 14, 2022 The Brandeis Center Hires Attorney Ben Alkon

Washington, D.C. (September 14, 2022) – The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Alkon as the organization’s newest full-time attorney. . Mr. Alkon, a 2020 graduate of George Washington University Law School, will work on legal advocacy initiatives, including investigations of anti-Semitic incidents on campus, […]

September 13, 2022 U.S. Dept of Ed Opens Investigation Into Anti-Semitism at the University of Vermont

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 Jewish Sexual Assault Survivors Shut Out of Another University Support Group . Washington, D.C., September 13, 2022:  The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at the University of Vermont (UVM) have been subjected to severe and […]

August 18, 2022 Jewish Sexual Assault Victims Expelled from Support Group File Complaint with U.S. Department of Education

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 . Washington, D.C., August 18, 2022 :  Two Jewish State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz students kicked out of a sexual assault awareness group and then cyberbullied, harassed and threatened, over their Jewish and Israeli identities, filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for […]

July 26, 2022 U.S. Dept of Ed to Investigate Harassment & Discrimination that Led to Resignation of USC VP, Rose Ritch

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 . Washington, D.C., July 26, 2022: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has opened an investigation into a complaint alleging the University of Southern California (USC) allowed a hostile environment of anti-Semitism to proliferate on its campus, resulting in the resignation in August 2020 of […]

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June 29, 2022 Major Victory Against BDS: Avi Zinger’s Legal Team Prevents Ben & Jerry’s Boycott of Israel; Ben & Jerry’s Will Continue to be Sold in Israel [press release]

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 Major Victory Against BDS: Avi Zinger’s Legal Team Prevents Ben & Jerry’s Boycott of Israel   Ben & Jerry’s Will Continue to be Sold in Israel . Washington, D.C., June 29, 2022: Avi Zinger, Ben & Jerry’s Israeli licensee, has settled the federal lawsuit filed on his behalf by the Louis […]

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May 31, 2022 Brandeis Center Warns Feds: Reckless to Conclude NYU’s Supervision As School Embroiled in New Anti-Semitism Scandal

“In the current circumstance, it would be derelict to permit NYU to run out the clock on OCR oversight and, thereby, undermine OCR’s critical work,” wrote the Brandeis Center, warning the university has not “addressed its anti-Semitism problem or fully complied with the Agreement.” The Louis D. Brandeis Center Issues Press Release Contact: Nicole Rosen ~ […]

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April 21, 2022 Brandeis Center Warns Lower Court’s Ruling in Texas Anti-BDS Law Jeopardizes State Authority to Prevent Discrimination, Urges Federal Appeals Court to Reverse Decision

Contact: Nicole Rosen 202-309-5724 . Washington, D.C., April 21, 2022: Calling a federal district court’s ruling on the Texas anti-BDS law an “Israel-exception” that is “nothing less than a naked assault on principles of equal treatment” and “has no basis in the law,” the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, urged the […]

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