ADL New York Region congratulates Westchester Advisory Committee (WAC) Chair Larry Bahr for being selected to participate in Westchester Jewish Council’s Leadership Development Institute. ADL nominated Larry for this prestigious program as a result of his hard work in leading the committee since 2014, his involvement with the New York Regional Board, and for his dedication to ADL over the
On Monday, July 6th, ADL New York Regional Office welcomed 12 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 Training and Peer Leadership Programs –both of
On July 29, 2015, ADL New York and Hofstra University Hillel hosted Words to Action: Empowering Jewish Students to Address Bias on Campus, an interactive workshop that provides students with effective responses to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. Students from several colleges and universities attended the program, including Hofstra, Cornell, Skidmore, SUNY Buffalo and Brandeis. Discussions concentrated on defining anti-Semitism,
The 8th Annual Charlotte and Jacques Wolf Educators Conference on Echoes and Reflections was held July 13 – 17, 2015 in New York at the Anti-Defamation League National Headquarters. Twenty-three educators convened from across the United States for a week of in-depth training on integrating Echoes and Reflections resources into their classrooms. Participants learned from Holocaust and genocide experts, survivors
In the aftermath of the Charleston shooting by a suspect seemingly influenced and radicalized by online hate propaganda, ADL issued a comprehensive report looking at the state of white supremacy in the United States in 2015.
