New York, NY, August 14, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the recently reported vandalism of over 40 tombstones at the Britton Road Cemetery in Greece, N.Y. Over a period of two nights in July, the Jewish cemetery sustained damage that included more than 40 stones overturned. The cemetery serves the Jewish community of Rochester and the surrounding area of
New York, NY, August 5, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is offering a $1,000 reward for credible information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for either of two anti-Semitic crimes that were recently perpetrated in Pearl River, N.Y. ADL condemned the anti-Semitic and racist graffiti spree in Pearl River in which three vehicles and
New York, NY, August 5, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today praised the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for the quick apprehension and arrest of Takeam Brison, 32, who allegedly slashed the face of a woman on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on August 1. According to reports, the victim confronted Brison after he directed virulent anti-gay
New York, NY, July 30, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today denounced a virulent anti-Muslim flier found in an apartment building in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, which read “Islamists! Go to your own country!!! USA hates you!!! You are terrorists and bastards!!! You are the second Holocaust!!!!” The flier was discovered on July 29. “We deplore this repugnant act of hate
New York, NY, July 30, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned an anti-Semitic and racist graffiti spree in Pearl River, N.Y. in which three vehicles and a driveway were vandalized with swastikas, the Nazi ‘SS’ symbol, the words “white power,” “n—–” and other offensive obscenities. One car’s tires were slashed. Residents on North Lincoln Avenue discovered the vandalism
