TIMES OF ISRAEL, February 17, 2026

“What is needed now is sustained intellectual infrastructure: a coherent and collaborative field of Jewish Legal Studies capable of integrating litigation experience, historical understanding, doctrinal analysis, and comparative research into a durable body of scholarship.

That is why the Law and Antisemitism Conference is so important.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL, January 24, 2026

“In the aftermath of October 7, Jewish students were not responding to distant geopolitical developments; they were grappling with profound grief, fear, and collective trauma as their homeland was attacked and as family and friends were killed, tortured, and taken hostage. Against that backdrop, they encountered peers on their college campuses who celebrated Hamas’s violence, justified the attacks, chanted slogans associated with terror and the eradication of the Jewish people, and directly targeted them, even at their vigil on October 10 for the murdered victims and hostages.

The court panel fails to recognize the magnitude of the October 7 terrorist attacks, the trauma inflicted on Jews worldwide, and how that trauma reverberates when violence against Jews is celebrated, justified, and weaponized against them.”

PITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE, January 20, 2026

Kaufman, a law professor at Duquesne University and co-founder of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies, is chairing this year’s Law and Antisemitism Conference. The Conference is being hosted by Cardozo Law School and sponsored by the Center for Jewish Legal Studies, the Center for the Study of Law and Antisemitism, the Center for Law and Antisemitism, and Royer, Cooper, Cohen Braunfeld.

TIMES OF ISRAEL, December 21, 2025

During a recent law faculty trip to Israel led by Professor Rona Kaufman and sponsored by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), I learned valuable lessons from people who live with seemingly impossible contradictions—heartbreak and hope, grief and celebration, despair and determination. Their experiences offer valuable lessons about resilience, the pursuit of justice, and living with joy.

TIMES OF ISRAEL, December 17, 2025

“This mass violence, directed at the Jewish community, did not happen in a vacuum. This atrocity was the predictable outcome of an antizionist movement that demonizes “Zionists” as uniquely illegitimate, casts them as “oppressors,” and claims that they are undeserving not only of a sovereign nation, but of dignity, inclusion, and safety.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL, December 9, 2025

“Both rulings leaned heavily on a now-familiar and deeply flawed refrain: antizionism is not discrimination. This conclusion rests on three mistaken assumptions:

Discrimination cannot be political.

Discrimination requires consensus.

Discriminators must be consciously hateful.

I am a professor of civil rights and constitutional law. I have taught and studied antidiscrimination law for over a decade, and I have spent my entire life learning about how Jew-hatred manifests and evolves. Here is what I know: the First Circuit is wrong. Antizionism is anti-Jewish discrimination.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL, NOVEMBER 9, 2025

“The predictable antizionist mantra claims ‘antizionism is not antisemitism.’ The mantra is right: antizionism is not classical antisemitism. But it misses the point: antizionism is itself a powerful form of Jew Hatred. It is different in form, but identical in function. Antizionism, just like antisemitism, is a hate movement that obsessively repeats popular libels about Jews to justify killing them. This cycle of libel leads to violence against Jews – and also against Palestinians, who are repeatedly sacrificed on the altar of its ideology and its endless wars.”

JEWISH INSIDER, March 11, 2026

“Rona Kaufman, the chair of this year’s conference and a participant for the past two years, told JI that this year was “from my perspective, a brand-new conference. … “Before I agreed to chair this conference, I had parameters. I had no interest in chairing a conference that was going to platform people who make claims that antisemitism is being weaponized or who refuse to center Jewish identity in conversations about antisemitism,” said Kaufman, a law professor at Duquesne University and co-founder of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies.

Panel topics ranged from various litigation strategies — with speakers including Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, and Ken Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center — to the legal consequences of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on Oct. 7. The latter session was led by Cardozo law professor Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin and virtually from Israel by Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder and chair of the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children.