On May 18, over 240 guests gathered at the Engineers Club in Roslyn to honor three outstanding Long Island community members for their support and dedication to ADL’s mission. Dr. Lorna Lewis received the Securing Justice Award for her incredible leadership as superintendent of the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District. The Long Island Philanthropic Leadership Awards were given to two

On Tuesday, October 21st, approximately 80 guests attended the ADL in Westchester event at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains to learn more about ADL’s educational programs, featuring No Place For Hate®, an initiative designed to create inclusive communities and empower schools to challenge all forms of bigotry.  The event also served as the launch of the Westchester Advisory

The online activ­ity of Mufid Elfgeeh, whose arrest for attempt­ing to pro­vide mate­r­ial sup­port for ter­ror, attempt­ing to kill U.S. sol­diers, and pos­ses­sion of firearms and silencers was made pub­lic this week by the U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice, under­scores the cen­tral­ity of the Inter­net in the rad­i­cal­iza­tion and recruit­ment process. Elfgeeh uti­lized mul­ti­ple online plat­forms includ­ing Twit­ter, Face­book, YouTube and the android appli­ca­tion What­sApp to

Wednesday, May 21, 2014: Nearly 500 students and educators from 76 schools in New York and New Jersey were designated as “No Place For Hate®” during a ceremony at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts to celebrate the amazing work they did to fight hate and bias. Schools become certified as ‘No Place For Hate’  by using ADL’s resources

On March 22, 2014, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney hosted the Hudson Valley Bullying Prevention Summit in Newburgh, New York. Parents, students and teachers from schools in the surrounding counties were invited to attend. The summit offered participants specific tools and strategies for combating bullying and cyberbullying. Throughout the day participants heard from students as well as various experts on the