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William and Mary Barnet Family Foundation Awards ADL Grant for Anti-Bias Training at Albany H.S.

          The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has begun a series of A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Training sessions at Albany High School, funded by a generous grant from The William and Mary Barnet Family Foundation of the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region.             The ADL Peer Training will be conducted over three days from February 11th to the 28th.

Profile In Leadership: Jay Eisenhofer, Managing Director, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.

Name: Jay W. Eisenhofer   Community: Manhattan  Occupation: Co-founder and Managing Partner, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. ADL Role: Development Co- Chair, ADL NY 1. What does ADL mean to you? When I think of ADL, I think of an organization that fights for what it believes in no matter the prevailing political winds, consensus, or the amount of criticism or controversy caused by its stance. 

Glass Leaders Learn from New York’s Finest about Hate Crimes and Intelligence

On January 14, 2014, the New York Region Glass Leadership Institute held its annual session with the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force to discuss its critical role and their partnership with ADL on combating hate and identifying hate crime perpetrators and extremists. The evening began with greetings from newly appointed Commissioner William Bratton, followed by a presentation

Students Together Opposing Prejudice (STOP) Conference 2014

On Friday, January 17th, 2014, twenty two schools from the greater capital district of Albany attended the 9th annual STOP conference at Siena College, an extension of the college’s Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Lecture series on non-violence. It was an opportunity for middle and high school students to work together to oppose prejudice and bigotry. ADL’s

ADL Equips Pine Bush, N.Y. Community with Tactics to Confront Anti-Semitism

New York, NY, January 27, 2014 … In response to reports of anti-Semitism in the Pine Bush, N.Y. school district and surrounding town, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has brought its Confronting Anti-Semitism program to Orange County in an effort to empower and equip the local Jewish community with constructive and effective responses to anti-Semitic incidents and stereotypes. ADL has implemented