Background
Kenneth Saul Stern was born on February 3, 1953 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Seymour Herbert Stern, a physician, and Gertrude (Steinberg) Stern, a physician.
Stern earned his Bachelor of Arts at Bard College in 1975.
Stern earned his Juris Doctor from Willamette University College of Law in 1979.
Stern earned his Bachelor of Arts at Bard College in 1975.
Stern earned his Juris Doctor from Willamette University College of Law in 1979.
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Kenneth Saul Stern was born on February 3, 1953 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Seymour Herbert Stern, a physician, and Gertrude (Steinberg) Stern, a physician.
Stern earned his Bachelor of Arts at Bard College in 1975, and his Juris Doctor from Willamette University College of Law in 1979.
Kenneth Stern was managing partner of the Oregon law firm Rose and Stern from 1979 to 1985. Stern was trial and appellate counsel for American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks, and argued on his behalf before the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Loud Hawk et al. Among his other notable cases was his representation of Portland's homeless community in a federal lawsuit against an anti-camping ordinance, and as co-counsel in a defamation suit against Patricia Hearst, representing Jack and Micki Scott.
He then became director at the National Organization Against Terrorism in Brooklyn during 1985-1986. From 1986 to 1988 Stern served as an environmental enforcement counsel of New York City Department Sanitation.
From 1989 to 2014 Stern was a specialist on anti-semitism & extremism of the American Jewish Committee in New York City. He was expert on anti-semitism, extremism, and hate groups, and was a spokesperson.
Kenneth Stern has testified before US Congress; in 1997 he served as an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes. He analyzed the militia movement, bigotry on campus, hate speech on talk radio and the Internet.
In 2000, Stern was a special advisor to the defense in the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt trial.
Besides, he is a frequent guest on national television and talk radio shows, including Face the Nation, Crossfire, Nightline, Dateline, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, and National Public Radio. His report "Militias: A Growing Danger", issued two weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing, predicted such attacks on the US government. He also authored the book about the militias "A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate" (1996).
Stern's other books are "Holocaust Denial (1993), "Loud Hawk: The United States vs. the American Indian Movement" (1994) and "Antisemitism Today" (2006).
From 2014 to 2018 he was executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation.
Stern is also active in the effort to establish an interdisciplinary academic field of Hate Studies. He previously served on the director's advisory board for the Gonzaga University Institute for Hate Studies, and he remains on the editorial board of the Journal of Hate Studies.
Currently, he is director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, a program of the Human Rights Project at Bard College.
Kenneth Stern is an award-winning author. His book about the militias "A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate" (1996) was nominated for the National Book Award.
His other book "Loud Hawk: The United States vs. the American Indian Movement" (1994) won the Gustave Myers Center Award as outstanding book on human rights.
In addition, Kenneth Stern is a recipient of Bard’s John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service.
In his article Holocaust education alone won't stop hate, Stern proposes ways to combat persisting hatred of Jews: "Human rights organizations must be challenged when they do not sufficiently assert that freedom from anti-Semitism is a human right. Governments must be engaged to ensure that they investigate and prosecute anti-Semitic hate crimes fully. Monitoring groups must catalogue not only the old-fashioned forms of religious and racial anti-Semitism, but also the more contemporary forms that treat the Jewish state in the same bigoted manner that traditional anti-Semitism regards the individual Jew. Campus administrations need to uphold the highest academic standards and make certain that while heated debate is encouraged, intimidation is prohibited."
In an open letter, co-authored with Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, Stern wrote that some of the complaints about anti-Semitism on campus under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "simply seek to silence anti-Israel discourse and speakers. This approach is not only unwarranted under Title VI, it is dangerous."
Besides, in 2001 Stern was an official member of the United States delegation to the Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance. Stern was also a key drafter of a "working definition" of anti-Semitism, which has been adopted, starting in January 2005, by various international bodies tasked with monitoring anti-Semitism.
Kenneth Stern has been a member of selection committee of Koblitz Human Rights Awards, Bard College and of Revlon Harmony Awards. He has also been a member of Oregon State Bar and New York State Bar.
In addition, Stern was a member of the board of directors of Multnomah Defenders, Inc. during the early 1980s and International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists from 1983 to 1988.
Kenneth Stern married Marjorie Slome, a rabbi, on June 11, 1989. The couple has two children: Daniel and Emily.
