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Alyza D. Lewin

Alyza D. Lewin is president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a founder and partner of Lewin & Lewin, LLP.

An anti-Israel protest in London in June 2021. Credit: Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock.

Recognizing antisemitism

Antisemitism has sought to “other” the Jew, to treat the Jew as unacceptable company, to deny Jews their place in society.

July 27, 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

Columbia University. Credit: Pixabay.

The future of college: A Jewish townhall

Why doesn’t the world recognize this anti-Semitism? In a world that opposes bigotry, why is there no resounding chorus condemning this discrimination?

July 1, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump displays his signature on an Executive Order committing his administration to combating the rise of anti-Semitism during an afternoon Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 11, 2019. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

The executive order that defines and combats anti-Semitism without stifling speech

Applying Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Jews is not new. It is the “adoption” of the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism that’s causing all the ruckus.

December 18, 2019

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