New York, NY, April 3, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the decision by the CiTi BOCES program in Oswego County to remove an inappropriate classroom lesson plan that asked students to write an essay arguing for or against the Nazi perspective on the “Final Solution,” the term used for a plan to eliminate the Jewish people
New York, NY, March 30, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has partnered with The Hillel Community Day School and a local Rochester-based advocacy group “ROC4Israel” to hold a full day of community programs and events to address the spread of anti-Semitism and hate that has afflicted Rochester and several communities across the state. On March 16, Middle School students
New York, NY, March 23, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed shock and outrage over the apparent racist killing of an African American man in New York City. According to reports, on March, 20, James Jackson from Baltimore drove to New York City deliberately to attack black men before using a sword to fatally stab Timothy Caughman, who
New York, NY, March 8, 2017… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned a violent attack on a Hispanic man that took place last week on a southbound J train in Brooklyn, NY. According to reports, a 27-year-old man from Guatemala was riding the subway on March 1 when a fellow passenger began to accost him, allegedly hurling racist and anti-Hispanic epithets,
New York, NY, March 2, 2017… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, NY. At least 16 headstones were toppled in the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, which has been in use by the local Jewish community since the 1920s. In response to this crime, ADL
