On December 15, Spring Valley legislator Aron Wieder, a traditional Orthodox Jew, received a letter containing a photograph that superimposed his face on the body of an ISIS prisoner about to be beheaded. Evan Bernstein, ADL New York Regional Director quoted.
Evan Bernstein, the Anti-Defamation League’s New York regional director, called the attack “a call to action for Jewish institutions across the United States to realize that these kinds of incidents can be prevented” with proper security training. He said the ADL will send an “action alert” to ADL offices across the country urging tighter security “for the entire Jewish community.”
The Anti-Defamation League is forming a local advisory committee in Westchester County to help expand its education programs and initiatives in the community.
The launch of the league’s new committee was announced Oct. 21 at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, with a roster of speakers that included U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, state Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, and Reginald Richardson, the principal of New Rochelle High School.
On November 11, 2014, ADL New York Regional Director Evan Bernstein told CBS2 News why the Anti-Defamation League is disturbed by the Nazi and Holocaust imagery in popular artist Nicki Minaj’s new music video “Only”. Watch the video clip here.
More than 40 people turned out Oct. 19 at the Somers Town Hall to listen to a talk by Evan Bernstein, the executive director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of New York, who warned that anti-Semitism is on the rise globally. The talk was sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of Somers, Post 46. Click here to read the full
