New York City is running a segregated school system. That is the charge the National Jewish Advocacy Center, which I lead, has asked the Justice Department to investigate: antisemitic hostility is driving Jewish children out of the public schools, officials are failing to protect their right to remain, and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has a name for a system that sorts children that way. It defines desegregation as “the assignment of students to public schools and

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, listens as New York City Comptroller Mark Levine speaks during the annual New York State Financial Control Board meeting on Aug. 12, 2026 in New York City.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images / Getty Images) New York City has taken another step away from its longstanding financial relationship with Israel, as Comptroller Mark Levine declined to restore a nearly 50-year investment tradition involving Israel Bonds. City Comptroller Mark Le

A coalition of Jewish groups including the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, StandWithUs and the National Jewish Advocacy Center wrote letters to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging them to clarify their response to European governments’ new sanctions on businesses in territories they deem occupied by Israel. “American companies should not be left to assume that silence from the United States means they may comply with

Zohran Mamdani has wanted New York City out of Israel bonds for good since before he was elected, and last week he got most of it, courtesy of an analysis that someone in the comptroller’s office handed Mark Levine. Mr. Levine told the New York Times that the city will not buy Israel bonds “right now,” citing “some technical challenges” and “financial considerations.” The mayor welcomed the decision. The only thing standing between his permanent policy and Mr. Levine’s tempor

The National Jewish Advocacy Center is urging the US Supreme Court to revive parents’ lawsuit challenging Washington laws that allow runaway minors seeking sex changes to be sheltered without their parents being told their location, arguing that religious families should not have to wait until their parental authority has been displaced to seek protection in court. In an amicus brief, the organization argues that Washington’s framework burdens parents whose faith requires the

For six months, Izuchukwu Ozurumba cooked three meals a day for the leaders of a Nigerian terrorist group. A federal appeals court held that his work did not amount to material support for the organization. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review that decision in Blanche v. Ozurumba. Ozurumba is a sympathetic litigant. He testified that he did not know whom he was working for when he took the job, and that when he learned the truth and tried to quit, the guards would no

Credit: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Everyone arguing about whether Ilhan Omar was 17 or 18 in 2000 is arguing about the easier question. The harder question is 1995: whether the man who naturalized was legally her father. On October 12, agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched Omar’s Washington home on a warrant signed by Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh and left with her phone, passport, notebooks, and computers. More than a dozen grand jury subpoe

Dr. Alan Kadish (All photos courtesy Touro University) Although there is no agreement about its cause or its likely development, no one argues that antisemitism is not rising in the United States and around the world... “There is a lot of concern about antisemitism on college campuses,” Dr. Alan Kadish of Teaneck, Touro’s president, said. “We obviously can’t control campuses, or have the ability to influence other institutions’ policy, but we felt that one way we could help c

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2026 CONTACT: National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) Phone: (332) 278-1100 Email: press@njaclaw.org NJAC URGES FEDERAL COURT TO DISMISS ICC JUDGES’ CHALLENGE TO U.S. SANCTIONS Amicus brief in Prost v. Trump argues that foreign nationals abroad cannot invoke the Constitution and that federal law plainly authorizes the sanctions NEW YORK, NY — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) filed an amicus curiae brief on Wednesday urging a

The Pokémon World Championships, in Washington, D.C., Aug. 17, 2014. Credit: dbking via Wikimedia Commons. A federal court has ruled that Dov Aloof, an Israeli-American professional Pokémon player, can proceed with a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the Japanese media company punished his pro-Israel advocacy while allowing another player’s anti-Israel expression. Hernán Vera, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, denied The Pokémon Com

73 Pages Posted: 8 Oct 2026 Mark Goldfeder National Jewish Advocacy Center Date Written: October 07, 2026 Abstract The accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza was made by people who knew the legal definition of genocide, knew the facts did not meet it, and used the word anyway. This Article proves that from their own documents. The charge was in print by October 13, 2023, two weeks before the ground campaign whose conduct it would later cite, and its authors had bee

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2026 CONTACT: National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) Phone: (332) 278-1100 Email: press@njaclaw.org THE FREE PRESS SPOTLIGHTS THE NEW YORK TIMES WHISTLEBLOWER AT THE CENTER OF NJAC SHAREHOLDER SUIT A follow-up to The Free Press's coverage of the shareholder books-and-records lawsuit against The New York Times Company, focused on a longtime newsroom employee and what she says happened after she reported bias inside the paper. NEW YORK, NY —

Millions of dollars in New York City funding earmarked for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new antisemitism strategy could flow to organizations with records of anti-Israel advocacy, financial filings indicate... CEO and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center Mark Goldfeder pointed out on X/Twitter that most of Mamdani’s “first-ever” antisemitism strategy is just the plan of his predecessor, former mayor Eric Adams’ plan “but with every page that touches Israel torn out.” And

The National Jewish Advocacy Center has filed a lawsuit on behalf of some Jewish Park Slope Food Coop members, demanding that the co-op overturn its boycott of Israeli goods... Alan Scheiner, senior litigation counsel at the National Jewish Advocacy Center, says the boycott violates anti-discrimination laws. Link to the full video: https://longisland.news12.com/lawsuit-filed-against-brooklyn-co-op-boycotting-israeli-products

A judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed in Portland, Oregon, against the watchdog group StopAntisemitism, with the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) announcing the legal victory on Friday. The case, adjudicated by Judge Adrienne Nelson in the US District Court for the District of Oregon, centered on social media posts published by the watchdog group regarding Sue Lewis, a professional musician and private music teacher who worked as an independent contractor at Vall

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 2, 2026 CONTACT: National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) Phone: (332) 278-1100 Email: press@njaclaw.org NJAC VICTORY DEFENDING STOPANTISEMITISM IN FEDERAL DEFAMATION CASE Judge sides with NJAC and StopAntisemitism on all counts, holding that its characterization of an Oregon teacher’s public statements was constitutionally protected opinion PORTLAND, OR— The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), together with co-counsel James L. Buchal of Murphy

by Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled what he calls “the nation’s first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism” on Tuesday. It is the plan he revoked on his first day in office, reprinted with every page that touches Israel torn out. That is the whole review. The rest is commentary. The document gives itself away in its verbs. The task force has been “reconvened.” The security working group was “relaunched.” The antisemitism office was “reestablish

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2026 CONTACT: National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) Phone: (332) 278-1100 Email: press@njaclaw.org NJAC SUES PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP TO OVERTURN ISRAEL BOYCOTT Lawsuit on Behalf of Five Jewish Members Says Coop Leaders Broke Their Own Bylaws and New York Anti-Discrimination Law BROOKLYN, N.Y. — On September 28, 2026, the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) filed suit in New York State Supreme Court, Kings County, on behalf of five Jewi

Park Slope Food Coop sign (foodcoop.com) The Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn was slapped with a lawsuit on Tuesday that alleged an antisemitic intimidation campaign by its leadership to silence Jews who objected to its boycott of Israeli food, according to a copy of the lawsuit first obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon. The members-only food cooperative—an institution in left-wing Park Slope—voted in late May to boycott all Israeli goods, capping a pitched bat

From Lewis v. StopAntisemitism, decided Friday by Judge Adrienne Nelson (D. Or.): Plaintiff is a professional musician who has worked as a private music teacher for over thirty years. During the 2023-2024 school year, plaintiff worked as an independent contractor at Valley Catholic Music School … [teaching] private violin and cello lessons to Valley Catholic students in practice rooms across the K-12 campus. Plaintiff also taught strings classes to students and non-student co