The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today reacted to the murder of a Queens man who was stabbed to death near Elmhurst and Roosevelt Avenue because, police believe, his attacker thought he was gay.   The League condemned the deadly anti-gay attack as “tragic and appalling.”  Steven Torres, 22, allegedly attacked Ever Orozco, 69, on September 16 while yelling anti-gay epithets.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced the appointment of Evan R. Bernstein as Director of the League’s New York Regional Office. Mr. Bernstein joins ADL with extensive experience in operations, development and leadership at several major Jewish and Israeli communal organizations. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director for the American Friends of Midgal Ohr and previously was National Director

  September 11, 2013 Some of the leading experts in the field of bias prevention will present in a series of six free educational webinars titled “Building Respectful School Climates,” sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as part of its centennial celebration. The series, free to the public, strives to equip parents, students, and primarily educators with tools and strategies

The ADL is proud to have organized a coalition of 49 national civil rights, religious, education, and professional organizations to submit comments to the Department of Education in support of changes to mandatory reporting on bullying and harassment incidents in schools. Read more.

            A group of 18 Catholic school educators from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut met at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY from August 12-15 to learn about the history of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Catholic teachings on Jews and Judaism as part of the Bettina (z”l) and Erwin Pearl New York Bearing Witness™ Summer Institute.             The Institute is sponsored