Posts Tagged: Kenneth Marcus
‘Mixed Bag’: New US Education Department Guidance Both Helps, Harms Jewish Community, Ex-Top Official Says
A new "Dear Colleague" letter issued by the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) includes a "mixed bag" of measures that will...
Leading Jewish Civil Rights Group Applauds US Lawmakers Calling on Biden Admin to Resolve Campus Antisemitism Complaints
A leading Jewish civil rights group on Tuesday applauded a bipartisan group of 84 members of the US Congress for issuing a letter that urged...
‘The News That They Needed to Hear’: US Advocates for Jews on Campus Testify Before Knesset on University Antisemitism
American nonprofit leaders on Tuesday testified before an Israeli parliamentary committee to discuss rising antisemitism on American college campuses. Convened by the Knesset Committee on Immigration,...
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Sabbath Observance Case With Major Impact For Religious Jews, Experts Say
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Groff v. DeJoy, a religious accommodation in the workplace lawsuit with significant ramifications for observant Jews,...
‘Historic Victory’: US Gov’t Rules That University of Vermont Failed to Address Campus Antisemitism
The US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has ruled that the University of Vermont (UVM) failed to respond to numerous complaints of...
Over 30 Law Faculty Call Out American Bar Association for Omitting IHRA Definition of Antisemitism from Resolution
Over 30 law faculty and two university leaders on Tuesday issued a letter criticizing the American Bar Association (ABA) for not adopting what is widely...
Antisemitic Hate Crimes Increased 20 Percent in 2021, Updated FBI Report Says
Hate crimes against American Jews increased by twenty percent and were the leading religiously motivated hate crime in 2021, according to a new, supplemental report...
Biden Administration Delays Civil Rights Protections Against Antisemitism to December; Palestinian Group Lauds Move
The Biden administration has again delayed issuing new federal regulations — first proposed by former President Donald Trump — that would apply the International Holocaust...
Jewish Students Not Protected by Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Polices on College Campuses, New Report Says
University policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment seldom protect Zionist and pro-Israel students, according to a study by antisemitism watchdog AMCHA Initiative. Released on Wednesday, the report,...
Jewish Nonprofit Accuses FBI of Understating Antisemitic Hate Crime Statistics
The Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on Tuesday criticized the FBI for issuing incomplete statistics on antisemitic hate crimes. The group contested the...
BigLaw’s Jewish Problem
The Jewish community has finally awakened to antisemitism on the college campus and in the streets -- only to find it seeping into the corporate...
‘Deeply Troubling’: Federal Commissioner Addresses Antisemitism Allegations in Stanford Diversity Trainings
A commissioner for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this week addressed allegations that Stanford University's diversity and inclusion trainings fostered a hostile work...
Kenneth Marcus Steps Down From Top US Education Department Civil Rights Post
Kenneth Marcus announced on Thursday he was stepping down from his position as assistant secretary for civil rights at the US Education Department. “Today, I announced...
New York Times Stumbles in a Strange Front-Page Antisemitism Story
A front-page New York Times news article appears under the headline “U.S. Revives Rutgers Bias Case In New Tack on Anti-Semitism.” The Times article hypes what...
