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

“The best way for us [ADL] to help, is to get into the school systems and synagogues and train people on how to respond to anti-Semitism and hate,” explains ADL New York Regional Director Evan Bernstein. ADL New York equips students, families, and community members with effective tools to combat and respond to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias through our Confronting