The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has reported disturbing anti-NYPD graffiti in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that equated the NYPD with Nazis. According to police, the graffiti was spray-painted onto a police car and discovered early in the morning on August 26th. It included a swastika and the slogan “NAZIS=NYPD.” NYPD, and particularly NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force, has responded swiftly
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) applauds Mayor Bill de Blasio’s commitment to combating bias and anti-Semitism, as he expressed to the Queens Jewish community on August 25. It is imperative that New York City’s leaders speak out when anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Mayor de Blasio must be lauded for his unwavering commitment to fighting anti-Semitism and bias, and for NYPD’s
ADL New York hosted its annual conference, ‘The Bettina (z’l) and Erwin Pearl Bearing Witness Summer Institute: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Contemporary Issues,’ on July 28-31, 2014. Bearing Witness is designed exclusively for Catholic school educators—teachers and principals—to learn about the long history of Catholic-Jewish relations and cutting edge methods in Holocaust education for 21st century audiences. Bearing Witness was
ADL held its seventh annual Charlotte and Jacques Wolf Educators’ Conference on Echoes and Reflections at ADL’s New York headquarters from July 14th-18th. The five-day conference brought together 25 educators and community leaders from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia to learn methods for teaching the Holocaust to twenty-first century young audiences. The
On Monday, July 7th, ADL welcomed 15 extraordinary high school students to participate in this year’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Summer Internship Program. The students come from a variety of racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, and were selected based on their leadership qualities and experience in ADL’s Peer Trainer and Peer Leadership Programs, an initiative that empowers students to
