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ADL Hosts The 8th Annual Charlotte and Jacques Wolf Educators Conference on Echoes and Reflections

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

ADL New York Region Meets with Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte

On Friday, July 3rd, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte met with Evan Bernstein, ADL New York Regional Director and Etzion Neuer, Director of Community Service & Policy. The meeting, held at Assemblymember Bichotte’s district office in Brooklyn, was a thoughtful discussion which touched on a broad range of issues including civil rights in New York and abroad, the Parental Choice in Education

From ADL Intern to Community Leader: Melissa A. Benjamin

How did you get involved in ADL? ADL-AWOD did trainings at my high school, Erasmus Hall Campus: High School for Business and Technology.  As a peer trainer, I was given the opportunity to teach various lessons on conflict resolution, diversity, etc. to students at my school, as well as at other school around NYC.  When the opportunity came to apply

Anti-Semitic Incidents on College Campuses in 2015

After the alarm­ing anti-Semitic inci­dent at UCLA ear­lier this year, the national discussion about the prob­lem of anti-Semitism on col­lege cam­puses continues. While such inci­dents are cer­tainly dis­turb­ing, it is important to note that these inci­dents are rel­a­tively rare, and the vast major­ity of Jew­ish stu­dents report feeling safe on their cam­puses. When such inci­dents do occur, they are gen­er­ally