doe Archives – Jewish Journal

Government agencies at odds over chemical cleanup near Camp Alonim

Deborah Schoch March 10, 2017

Remote Brandeis-Bardin area may need cleanup, state officials see no health threat

Deborah Schoch December 7, 2016

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has verified that it has detected what it calls low levels of chemicals in soil in a remote area of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley, downhill from a well-known former nuclear and rocket testing site.

Bipartisan Senate legislation to combat anti-Semitism on campus

jacobk December 1, 2016

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation to grant the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) the necessary statutory tools at their disposal to investigate anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses.

Ruling on campus hate

Jonah Lowenfeld May 22, 2013

Over the past decade, as anti-Israel demonstrations have become a regular occurrence on many U.S. college campuses, Jewish nonprofits and individuals have turned to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for relief, and with some success. They convinced the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for one, to investigate anti-Israel speech and actions at three University of California campuses, arguing that such speech is tantamount to anti-Semitism and violates the civil rights of Jewish students.