Last night ADL New York Region held its 8th annual Middle East Conference at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This year’s conference, co-sponsored by the Benjamin N. Cardozo Jewish Law Student’s Association and New York University Law Students for Israel, addressed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and its harmful impact on college campuses
Name: RoseAnn Zapata-Lowe ADL Internship: 1994 & 1995 Profession: Mental Health Services- Program Director at Institute for Community Living How did you get involved in ADL? I first became involved at ADL when I was in high school. I attended East New York Transit Tech and became a diversity trainer through the train the trainer program. In 1994 and
On August 27, ADL New York Region was at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires conducting workshops to help campers at United Synagogue Youth’s Encampment program address anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias they may encounter at school or in their community. Throughout the day, ADL’s Northeast region facilitators held 15 workshops for all 450 campers, grades 6-12. ADL’s Confronting Anti-Semitism program for middle-school
ADL launched 50 States Against Hate, a new campaign for tougher hate crime laws all across the country.
ADL New York hosted its annual professional development program for Catholic school educators, ‘The Bettina (z’l) and Erwin Pearl Bearing Witness Summer Institute: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Contemporary Issues,’ on August 3-6, 2015. Bearing Witness is designed exclusively for educators from Catholic schools to learn about the long history of Catholic-Jewish relations and cutting-edge methods in Holocaust education for 21st century audiences.
