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Santa Ana High School, the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, Calif. Credit: Steve Cukrov/Shutterstock.

Jewish groups sue California school district, alleging antisemitic ethnic-studies curricula

The Santa Ana Unified School District allegedly discussed responding to the “Jewish question” internally, without alerting the public to or allowing it to comment upon antisemitic content in courses.

Menachem Wecker

September 11, 2023

The campus of SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, N.Y. Credit: crz4mets2 via Wikimedia Commons.

US Education Department investigating SUNY at New Paltz over alleged antisemitism

No matter what happens, SUNY “did not serve us in time, or it did not consider our well-being and the urgency of the matter,” one of two student complainants told JNS.

June 9, 2023

Aerial view of buildings in the University of California, Berkeley campus. Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock.

Brandeis Center sues Berkeley for withholding requested records

The legal group aims to learn more about anti-Zionist student group policies and talk about adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

May 5, 2023

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Louis Brandeis. Photo: public domain

American Jews must use both Jewish pride and the law to defeat anti-Semitism

Justice Louis D. Brandeis knew that Jewish, Zionist and American ideals were united as one.

November 10, 2022

U.S. and Texas state flags flying on the dome of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin. Credit: CrackerClips Stock Media/Shutterstock.

Legal watchdog urges federal court to reverse decision on Texas anti-BDS law

“It’s nonsense to suggest that a BDS proposal is separate from anti-Semitism,” said Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Brandeis Center.

Dmitriy Shapiro

April 21, 2022

Brooklyn College, N.Y. Credit: Creative Family/Shutterstock.

Federal civil-rights officials open investigation into anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College

“Fighting bigotry should not be a competition between minority groups; it’s not a zero-sum game,” said Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives at the Brandeis Center.

February 3, 2022

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioners Andrea Lucas and Keith Sonderling give a presentation on statistics on workplace and educational anti-Semitism, as well as the laws that protect workers against acts of anti-Semitism and harassment about their Judaism. Source: Screenshot.

Federal civil-rights officials raise alarm over ‘horrifying statistics’ on anti-Semitism in workplace

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission official Andrea Lucas said the “EEOC is always monitoring for when there is a rise in a particular type of discrimination, and in May, it noticed what she described as a ‘serious rise’ in anti-Semitic violence.”

Dmitriy Shapiro

January 12, 2022

Alyza Lewin, president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, sits to the right of JNS editor in chief Jonathan S. Tobin as part of a panel of speakers at the U.S. Department of Justice Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2019. Source: DOJ.

Is it possible to support Jews, but oppose Zionists?

Zionism is integral to Jewish identity. And anyone opposing it is targeting Jews.

July 16, 2019

New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pro-Israel groups urge president of NYU to act on discriminatory statement

“If Catholic students were told they had to disavow the Vatican before they could engage with other members of the student body, everyone would agree that it would be blatant discrimination. This is no different,” said Alyza Lewin, president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

August 21, 2018