Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
This roundtable will bring together scholars of Critical Race Theory, education law, Constitutional law, and antidiscrimination law, to discuss and explore a variety of interconnected questions, taking Critical Race Theory as both methodology and object.
These questions include:
• How can CRT help us understand the question of (Ashkenazic) Jewish “whiteness” and why it matters?
• How can we use CRT to understand strategic racialization by and of Diasporic North American Jews, as White/non-White in contexts such as citizenship and affirmative action?
• What larger political ends are served or frustrated by the deployment of the claim of “antisemitism” against CRT itself, as well as other efforts seen as aligned with it (such as affirmative action and DEI)?
• How can CRT be used by those genuinely seeking to combat antisemitism to help identify and combat the threat posed both to Jewish communities and communities of color by the rise of White Christian (ethno-) nationalism?
• How can CRT help us identify when anti-Zionism is and is not antisemitism, and is CRT more or less effective than other methodologies in this effort?
• Is CRT useful in understanding current deep divisions within the Diasporic North American Jewish community, about Zionism/anti-Zionism, particularly in the context of Israel/Palestine? Can CRT help North American Jews to better understand their own intersectional identities?
• Jonathan Feingold, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, UCLA Law JD ‘12
• David Schraub, Associate Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
• Moderator: Diane Klein Kemker, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, UCLA Law JD ‘97
This roundtable will bring together scholars of Critical Race Theory, education law, Constitutional law, and antidiscrimination law, to discuss and explore a variety of interconnected questions, taking Critical Race Theory as both methodology and object.
These questions include:
• How can CRT help us understand the question of (Ashkenazic) Jewish “whiteness” and why it matters?
• How can we use CRT to understand strategic racialization by and of Diasporic North American Jews, as White/non-White in contexts such as citizenship and affirmative action?
• What larger political ends are served or frustrated by the deployment of the claim of “antisemitism” against CRT itself, as well as other efforts seen as aligned with it (such as affirmative action and DEI)?
• How can CRT be used by those genuinely seeking to combat antisemitism to help identify and combat the threat posed both to Jewish communities and communities of color by the rise of White Christian (ethno-) nationalism?
• How can CRT help us identify when anti-Zionism is and is not antisemitism, and is CRT more or less effective than other methodologies in this effort?
• Is CRT useful in understanding current deep divisions within the Diasporic North American Jewish community, about Zionism/anti-Zionism, particularly in the context of Israel/Palestine? Can CRT help North American Jews to better understand their own intersectional identities?
• Jonathan Feingold, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, UCLA Law JD ‘12
• David Schraub, Associate Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
• Moderator: Diane Klein Kemker, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, UCLA Law JD ‘97
