Submission: UC must protect Jewish students, combat anti-Semitism

Dear President Napolitano and the University of California Board of Regents,

We are 521 University of California alumni who are deeply concerned about the safety of Jewish students at our alma mater.

We heartily commend the UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara student senates for responding to the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic activity on UC campuses by unanimously passing resolutions which condemn anti-Semitism and resolve that their respective student senates will adopt the U.S. Department of State’s definition of anti-Semitism for identifying anti-Semitic activity.

We also applaud you for your own statement condemning anti-Semitism. Taking a public stand is a very important first step. However, it is critical that you do more to ensure the safety of Jewish students at the UC.

We join the coalition of 23 organizations that have recently written to you, urging you to take the following steps in order to adequately address the rising tide of anti-Jewish bigotry at the UC :

1. Formally adopt the U.S. Department of State’s definition of anti-Semitism in order to identify all forms of anti-Semitic expression on UC campuses.
2. Charge UC chancellors with training campus administrators and staff involved in discrimination prevention, student affairs and equity, diversity and inclusion, to identify anti-Semitic behavior, and direct them to develop clear protocols for addressing campus anti-Semitism with the same promptness and vigor as they do other forms of racial, ethnic and gender bigotry and discrimination.
3. Charge UC chancellors with developing initiatives for educating the campus community about anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish discrimination.

No student should feel harassed, intimidated, threatened or marginalized. We implore you to better protect Jewish students at the UC.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,

Aaron Savar, UC Berkeley

Abe Carnow, UCLA

Afsaneh Mobasser, UCLA

Afshin Gabayan, UCLA

Alan Edelstein, UC Berkeley, UC Davis

Alan Harver, UC San Diego

Alan Kostinsky, UC Berkeley

Alane Schloss Shechter, UCLA

Albert Lapides, UC Berkeley

Alex Keyfes, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz

Alexandra Skierso, UCLA

Ali Strocker, UCLA

Aliza Robin, UCLA

Allan Fensten, UCLA

Allan Kandel , UCLA

Allison Moran Gingold, UCLA

Alvaro Gancman, UCLA

Amanda Eisner, UC Santa Barbara

Amir Agay, UCLA

Amy Capurro, UC Davis

Amy Lester Jones, UC San Diego

Amy Saft Ciocan, UCLA

Andrew Katz, UC Berkeley, UCLA

Anita Cotton, UC Berkeley

Ann M. Zeller, UCLA

Anna Paikow, UCLA

Anthony Brill, UCLA

Ariel Szmuilowicz, UC Irvine

Arlee S. Maier, UC Berkeley

Arnold Anisgarten, UCLA

Arnold Zeiderman, UC Berkeley

Audrey Israel, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco

Audrey Pretsky Adler, UCLA

Avi Herbstman, UC Santa Cruz

Azy Susman, UCLA

Barbara Halpern, UC Santa Barbara

Barbara Simon, UC San Diego

Barbarba Gelb, UCLA

Bee Epstein-Shepherd, UC Berkeley

Ben Adler, UCLA

Ben Harris, UCLA

Bernard Fligelman, UCLA

Bernard H. Goldner, UCLA

Bernard Recht UC Berkeley

Betsy Rosenthal, UCLA

Betzalel N. Eichenbaum, UCLA

Beverly J. Haas, UCLA

Bob Prichard, UC Berkeley

Bonnie Elbaz-Dekel, UCLA

Brannon Glushakow, UCLA

Brian H. Wieder, UCLA

Bruce Eric Sherman , UCLA

Cambria Cohen Gordon, UCLA

Cantor Daniel Eli Friedman, UCLA

Carol Cohen, UCLA

Carol Kurz, UCLA

Carole Shnier, UCLA

Charlene Hartman, UCLA

Charlene Vener, UCLA

Charles L. Geshekter, UCLA

Charles Rosin, UC Berkeley

Chava Bieber, UCLA

Cheryl Herbstman, UC Irvine

Chloe Richdin, UCLA

Claude Ciocan, UCLA

Colby Davidson, UCLA

Craig Preston, UCLA

Dalia Hayon, UCLA

Dan Fuller, UC Santa Barbara

Dan Genud, UCLA

Dan Laks, UC Berkeley

Dan Shalom, UCLA

Dana Edelstein, UC Berkeley, UC Davis

Sanford N. Diller, UC Berkeley

Daniel A. Kaplan, UC Irvine, Hastings College of Law

Daniel Levinson, UC Irvine

Danit Ariel, UC Berkeley, UC Davis

Daryl Temkin, UCLA

David Boren, UC Berkeley

David De Castro, UCLA

David Dichner, UCLA

David E. Dann , UCLA

David Ehrenberg, UCLA

David Fischel, UCLA

David Gaertner, UC Berkeley

David Gitter, UCLA

David Halahmy, UCLA

David Howell, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis

David Jacobson, UCLA

David J. Taft, UCLA

David L. Moring, UC Riverside

David Lalezari, UC Irvine

David Neal Miller, UC Santa Cruz

David Polak, UCLA

David Resnick, UCLA

David Rosenheimer, UC Santa Barbara

David Savar, UCLA

David Shpak, UC Davis

David Siegel UC Berkeley

David Zalk, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara

David Ziskrout, UCLA

Debbie Schulner, UCLA

Debbie Winokur, UCLA

Debora Dennison Schulman, UCLA

Deborah M. Feiler, UC Berkeley

Deborah P. Oles, UCLA

Deborah Pouratian Heald, UCLA

Debra Glazer, UC Irvine

Debra Gornon, UC Berkeley

Debra Mendelson, UC Berkeley

Dick Hartman, UCLA

Dina Levy, UCLA

Dmitri Gelfand, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine

Don Neumark, UCLA

Donald P. Allen, UC Berkeley

Donald Sacks, UCLA

Donald C. Lipkis, UCLA

Doreen De Leon, UCLA

Doug Kruschke, UCLA

E. Brown, UCLA

Ed Canas, UCLA

Ealon Joelson, UC Berkeley

Earl Goldberg, UCLA

Earl Lewis Goldberg, UCLA

Eddie Blau, UCLA

Edward B. Rockower, UCLA

Edward Mizrahi, UCLA

Edwin Shapiro, UC Berkeley

Eileen Anisgarten Brown JD, UCLA

Eileen Schiff Wingard, UCLA

Elaine Goodfriend, UC Berkeley

Elaine Hearst Albert, UCLA

Elaine Isaacson, UC Berkeley

Elan Freedberg, UC Berkeley

Eli Avtzon, UCLA

Elina Veytsman, UCLA

Eliott Goretsky, UC Irvine

Elizabeth Alkaly, UCLA

Elizbeth Beattie, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Belser, UC Santa Cruz

Ellen Fox, UC Riverside

Ellice Papp, UC Berkeley

Emanuel Gottlieb, UCLA

Emily Resnick, UCLA

Eric Goldberg, UCLA

Eric K. Biren, UC Berkeley

Eric Sirkin, UC Berkeley

Eric Strauss, UC Berkeley

Ernest S. Fried, UC Berkeley

Esther Kandel, UCLA

Esther Moscona, UC San Diego

Esther Varda Beck, UCLA

Etan Lorant, UCLA

Faith Schames, UCLA

Fariba Fischel Ghodsian, UCLA

Felisa Bluwal Pivko , UCLA

Francoise Farron, UC Berkeley

Frank Ariel, UCLA

Frank Ponde, UCLA

Fred R. Hecht, UCLA

Frieda Rapoport Caplan, UCLA

Gabriella Dakteris, UC Berkeley

Gadi Maier, UC Berkeley

Gail Bernstein, UCLA

Gail Budin Rubin, UC Berkeley

Gal Sitty, UCLA

Gary Aminoff, UCLA

Gary Bachrach, UC Berkeley, UCLA

Gary Frank, UC Berkeley, UCLA

Gary Klehr, UC Berkeley

Gary M. Epstein, UC Riverside

Gary Pearl, UCLA

Gary Shapiro, UCLA

Georgiana Flaherty, UC Berkeley

Gerald B. Leib, UC Berkeley

Gideon Rappaport, UC Santa Cruz

Gina Rosenfield, UC Davis

Grant Edelstone, UC Berkeley

Gregg M.Lane,UC Berkeley

Gregory Halprin, UCLA

Guy Husavy, UCLA

Hadar Zenah, UCLA

Hanni Mittelmann, UCLA

Harvey Katz, UC Berkeley

Haya Handel, UCLA

Heather Green, UC Riverside

Heather Hoppus, UC Irvine

Heather Howell, UC Davis

Hedy Woolf, UCLA

Helena Z. Katz , UCLA

Henry Fenton, UCLA

Hillary Bibicoff, UCLA

Holly Baral, UC Santa Cruz

Hope Anisgarten, UCLA

Howard Eisenberg, UC Berkeley

Howard Goodman, UCLA

Rabbi Howard Laibson, UC Santa Cruz

Howard Lesner, UCLA

Howard Meyers, UCLA

Howard R. Weisenfeld, UCLA

Ira Benjamin Katz, UCLA

Iris Maybloom, UCLA

Isabella Romalatti, UCLA

Israel G. Burstain, UCLA

Israel Harkham, UC San Diego

Ivan Ahmady, UC Irvine

Ivo Gerscovich, UC Santa Barbara

Ivy Greene, UCLA

J. Barry Gurdin, UCLA

Jack Bruker, UCLA

Jack Kessler, UC Berkeley

Jacob Goldberg, UC Berkeley

Jacqueline Rafii, UCLA

Jacques Adlere, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara

Jake Steinberg, UCLA

Jamie Cooperstein, UCLA

Jane C. Jordan, UC Berkeley

Jane Rubin, UC Berkeley

Janet Widerspan, UC Berkeley

Jason Cirlin, UCLA

Jay Abouaf, UC Santa Cruz

Jay Saadian, UCLA

Jay Walker, UCLA

Jeff Wieder, UCLA, UC San Diego

Jeffrey A. Carmel, UC Berkeley, UCLA

Jeffrey Barke, UC Irvine

Jeffrey D. Shapiro, UC San Diego

Jeffrey Kandel, UCLA

Jeffrey Lance, UCLA

Jeffrey Eyelkreif, UCLA

Jenna Passer Schule, UC Davis

Jennifer Dekel, UCLA

Jerome Marks, UCLA, UC Berkeley

Jerry Greenberg, UCLA

Jerry Schneider, UC Berkeley

Jessica Teisch, UC Berkeley

Joan Jurancich, UC Davis

Joan Sopher, UC Berkeley

Joanne Serin, UCLA

Joannie Burstein, UCLA

Jocelyn Robinson, UC Santa Cruz

Jodi (Alcalay) Frankenbach, UCLA

Jody Fox, UCLA

Joe Anderson, UC Santa Barbara

Johanna Wilder, UC Santa Cruz

John Stone, UC Santa Barbara

John Poris, UC Santa Barbara

John Segall, UC Berkeley

Jon Wilson, UC Berkeley

Jonathan Aron, UCLA

Jonathan Herskowitz, UCLA

Jonathan Lehrer-Graiwer, UCLA

Jonathan Lifton, UC Berkeley

Jonathan Meltzer, UC Berkeley

Jonathan Nassi, UCLA

Jonathan Schreiber, UCLA

Jonathon Krasny, UCLA

Jordan Warburg, UC Santa Barbara

Jordana King, UC Berkeley

Joseph Leibowitz, UC Berkeley

Joshua Cloner

Joshua Guss, UC Santa Barbara

Joyce Beattie, UC Santa Cruz

Joyce Ellenberg, UC Berkeley

Judie Wachs Friedman, UCLA

Judith S. Sher, UC LA

Judith Sher, UCLA

Judith Weiner, UCLA

Julia Raysh, UCLA

June Brott, UC San Francisco

Justin Sadie, UCLA

Karen Herskovic, UC Davis

Karen Kronick, UC Berkeley

Karen R. Platow Juergens, UCLA

Karol Delmar, UC Santa Cruz

Kayvan Gabbay, UCLA

Keith Abouaf, UC San Diego

Kelly, UC Irvine

Kelly Littleton, UCLA

Kenneth Fields , UCLA

Kenny Bendik, UCLA

Kevin Chroman, UC Berkeley

Kipp Cohen, UCLA

Kristin (Anderson) Rose, UC Davis

L.Katz, UCLA

Lanren Pearl, UCLA

Larik Malish, UC San Diego

Larry Bamberger, UCLA

Laura H Segall, UC Santa Cruz

Laura Nathan, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara

Laura Record, UCLA

Lauran Engel, UCLA

Lauren Helfand, UC Santa Cruz

Laurie Boxer, UCLA

Lawrence Fried, UC Berkeley

Lawrence J Polon, UC Berkeley

Lawrence M. Grossman, UCLA

Leah Markus, UC Berkeley, UCLA

Lenore E. Cohen, UCLA

Leonard J. Roth, UCLA

Leonard Jacobson, UC Berkeley

Leora Udkoff, UCLA

Leslie Goldfarb, UCLA

Leslie Weinstein, UC Berkeley

Lillian Lieber, UCLA

Lillian Sack Lieber, UCLA

Linda (Agay) Calhoun, UCLA

Linda Chap, UCLA

Linda Silverstein, UCLA

Linda Tochterman, UC Berkeley, UC Davis

Linda Weiner, UCLA

Lindsay Sirkin, UCLA

Lirit King, UC Santa Barbara

Lisa Agay, UCLA

Lisa Sherman, UCLA

Liz Milan, UCLA

Loren Kaiser, UC Santa Barbara

Loren Witkin, UCLA

Lori Asher Meyers, UC Berkeley

Lori Edelstone, UC Berkeley

Lucille Benveniste Veron, UCLA

Lynda Shapiro, UCLA

Marat Galperin, UCLA

Marc Cohen, UCLA

Marc Gipsman, UCLA, UC San Diego

Marc L. Andres, UCLA

Marcia Trost Rozelle, UCLA

Marcie Joy Meier, UCLA

Marisa Belinfante, UCLA

Mark Davidson, UCLA

Mark Farber, UCLA

Mark Feldman, UCLA

Mark Herskoyitz, UCLA

Mark J. Pearl, UCLA

Mark Langberg, UCLA

Mark Levy, UC Berkeley

Mark Milstein, UCLA

Mark Mobilne, UC San Diego

Mark Wolf, UC Berkeley

Marla Wilson, UCLA

Marlene Tabak Maier, UC Berkeley

Marnin Weinreb, UCLA

Marsha Zicherman Epstein, UCLA

Martin E. Grant, UCLA

Martin S. Orgel, UCLA

Marv Ellenberg, UC Berkeley

Marvin Klein, UC Irvine

Maureen Ellenberg, UC Berkeley

Maureen Roszler , UCLA

Max Grossman, UC Berkeley

Maytal Abishoor, UCLA

Mea Fred Lane, UC Berkeley

Melissa Lorin, UC Santa Barbara

Michael A. Waterman, Esq, UCLA

Michael Dab, UC Berkeley, UCLA

Michael Davood, UCLA

Michael Hahn, UC Berkeley

Michael Katzeff, UCLA

Michael Lubin, UC San Diego

Michael O. Rosenheimer, UC Berkeley

Michelle Mayer, UC Irvine

Michelle Witkin, UCLA

Mike Fitzsimons, UCLA

Mike Rogson, UC Berkeley

Mina Rush

Mindla Millett, UCLA

Mindy Serin, UCLA

Mitchell Keiter, UCLA

ML Heller, UC Irvine

Monica Artavia Blut, UCLA

Monica Mizrachi, UC San Diego

Mor Weizman, UC Santa Barbara

Morris A. Budak, UCLA

Morris Richman, UC Berkeley

Moshe Abramovici, UCLA

Murray Haberman, UC Davis

Rabbi Nathanie l Ezray, UCLA

Nancy (Alpert) Francis, UCLA

Nancy Josephs Edelman, UCLA

Nancy Kornfield, UC Berkeley

Nancy R. Goodman Wiener, UC Berkeley

Nancy Singer, UC Berkeley

Naomi Pollack, UC Santa Cruz

Nathan Palanker, UC Berkeley

Naya Lekht, UCLA

Nazila Day-Zadeh, UCLA

Neal Jacobi, UC San Francisco

Nelson R Rosal, UCLA

Nicole Lance, UCLA

Niloofar Ghodsian, UCLA

Niloofar Shephard, UCLA

Nira Weiss, UCLA

Noah Berkowitz, UC Berkeley

Norman S. Namerow, UCLA

Pamela C Amundson, UC San Diego

Pamela Golchet, UCLA

Patricia Eliahu, UC Santa Cruz

Patricia Golde, UC Berkeley

Patricia Huizar, UCLA

Paula Gray, UCLA

Paula Leibowitz Shuman, UCLA

Paulina Wasco (Paulina Cisneros), UC San Diego

Pauline Regev, UCLA

Peter Schindler, UC Santa Barbara

Phil Liff-Greiff, UCLA

Philip C. Greenwald, UCLA

Phyllis Bloom, UC Berkeley

Phyllis Herskovitz, UCLA

Pollin Farzin, UCLA

Rachel Modena Barasch, UC Davis

Rachel Sperling, UC San Diego

Rachel Wallace, UC Santa Cruz

Rachel Zubaty, UC Santa Barbara

Rachele C. Raanan, UCLA

Raina Sinoty, UC Santa Barbara

Raizel Roszler Michelow, UCLA

Ralph Resnick, UCLA

Ram Alkalay

Ram Kosha Dillz

Randy Wolman, UCLA

Raphael Avraham, UC Davis

Raul Mirande, UC San Francisco

Rebecca Carpey, UCLA

Reinaldo D’Amico, UCLA

Renee Gingold, UCLA

Richard B. Weisberg, UC Irvine

Richard Bergman, UCLA

Richard Laurence, UCLA

Richard Leivenberg, UC Berkeley

Richard Morhaine, UCLA

Richard S.A. Siegel, UCLA

Rita Lewcowicz, UCLA

Robert Cohen, UCLA

Robert Greenwald, UC Davis

Robert K. Steinberg, UCLA

Robert Kleinman, UCLA

Robert L.Aronoff, UCLA

Robin Kopit, UC Santa Cruz

Rochelle Needle, UCLA

Roman Kleynberg, UCLA

Ronald Dresher, UCLA

Ronald Kaldro, UC Berkeley

Roy Shacter, UC Berkeley

Russell Berman, UC Berkeley

Ruth Horwitz, UC Santa Cruz

Sam Goldstein, UC Merced

Sam Lerner, UCLA

Sam Louke, UC Santa Barbara

Samuel B Liron, UC Berkeley

Sandy Hollander, UCLA

Sara Rigler, UCLA

Sarah Bloch, UCLA

Scott Falcone, UC Berkeley

Scott Silverman, UC Riverside

Scott Taryle, UC Davis, UC San Diego

Sean Nasseri, UCLA

Sean Saly, UC San Diego

Seth Dosick, UCLA

Seth Goldman, UCLA

Shai Abishoor, UCLA

Shalom Eliahu, UC Berkeley

Sharon Mayer, UCLA

Sharon Raber Davidson, UCLA

Sharon Rappaport, UC Santa Cruz

Sharona Yamini, UCLA

Shaul Nassi, UCLA

Shaun Berger, UC San Diego

Sheila Keiter, UCLA

Sheila Sperber, UCLA

Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer, UCLA

Shellie (Rose) Halprin, UCLA

Shelly Saltiel, UC San Diego

Shelton Ehrlich, UC Berkeley

Sheri Singer, UCLA

Sherry Heller Goldwasser, UC Berkeley

Shimon Weiss, UCLA

Shirley(Kashani)Agam, UCLA

Shivah Moreh, UCLA

Shlomo Elspas, UCLA

Siavash Kahen, UCLA

Sohail Manesh, UC San Francisco

Sol Zira, UCLA

Stanley Kandel, UCLA

Stanley R. Farkas, UC Riverside

Stefanie Maier, UC Santa Barbara

Stephanie D. Friedman, UC Berkeley

Stephen Gingold, UCLA

Stephen Seiff, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Francisco

Stuart Bernstein, UC Berkeley

Stuart London, UC Davis

Stuart O. Schweitzer, UCLA

Susan Wilson, UC Berkeley

Susan B. Dab, UCLA, UC San Francisco

Susan Fingerett Chait, UCLA

Susan H Somerville, UC Berkeley

Susan Kove Duck, UCLA

Susan Sue, UCLA

Suzanna Eibuszyc, UCLA

Svetlana Teplitsky, UC Berkeley

Sylvia Lezk, UC San Francisco

Sylvia Siegel, UC Berkeley

Taaly (nee Barak) Silberstein , UCLA

Ted M Kahn, UC Berkeley

Theodore A. Goldberg, UCLA

Uri Aviram, UC Berkeley

Uri Eliahu, UC Berkeley

Victor Mellon, UCLA

Vladimir Sidorovsky, UC Santa Cruz

Walter Henri Gotlieb, UCLA

Warren Lent, UCLA

Wendi Bahrynian, UCLA

Wendy Avraham, UC San Francisco

Wendy Dreskin, UC Berkeley

William Dreskin, UC Berkeley

William Frank, UC Berkeley

William L. Schwartz, UC Berkeley

William M. Egerman, UCLA

Yigal Sadgat, UCLA

Z. Bronson, UCLA

Zena Blecker Charlebois, UCLA

Zivit Weinstein, UCLA