New York, NY, January 20, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s legal guidance to local governments and law enforcement on protecting immigrant communities. The guidelines specifically address how local governments can enact and protect laws and policies to limit their participation in federal immigration enforcement activities. “We commend Attorney General Schneiderman for

New York, NY, January 18, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern about a newspaper’s decision to print an offensive letter replete with thinly veiled anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories in several Long Island newspapers. The letter appeared in the December 16 editions of The Island Now, a collection of newspapers owned and published by Blank Slate Media.

New York, NY, January 11, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed deep concern about a bomb threat made against the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Staten Island and thanked the New York Police Department (NYPD) for their swift response. According to reports, a threatening note was discovered in the JCC this morning with the image of a swastika,

Watch the interview with ADL New York Regional Director Evan Bernstein:  “These kinds of threats do affect communities,” said Evan Bernstein of the Anti-Defamation League. “Institutions need to do everything they can to protect themselves, look at their security measures, analyze their security, and take every single one of these threats as seriously as possible and bring it to law

New York, NY, January 4, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today denounced remarks made by New York State Assemblyman Clifford Crouch who, in reaction to Governor Cuomo’s announcement of a task force on educating about minimum wage, equated the move to a “personal gestapo force.” ADL reached out to the Assemblyman’s office shortly following the alleged comments reported on