New York, NY, November 10, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned the vandalism of a softball field with bigoted anti-Semitic graffiti in Wellsville, New York. The graffiti, which was discovered the day following the presidential election, featured a large swastika and the words “MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN” in black spray paint. The vandalism was scrawled across a

New York, NY, October 20, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the display of a large Nazi flag with the word “Trump” superimposed over it in the window of a bookstore in the town of Saugerties, New York. “Using the symbol of Nazism to make a political point is highly inappropriate and repugnant,” said Evan R. Bernstein, ADL

New York, NY, October 14, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned the assault of two visibly identifiable Jewish brothers in Brooklyn as they walked home from synagogue on Yom Kippur. The two brothers were walking home from services at the Flatbush Park Jewish Center in Mill Basin on October 12 while wearing yarmulkes and prayer shawls, when

New York, NY, October 11, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern over a demonstration in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in which some protestors demonstrating against the Jewish ritual of “kapparot” used offensive and inappropriate rhetoric and reportedly resorted to violence. Kapparot is a pre-Yom Kippur ritual performed by some Jews in which a chicken is

New York, NY, October 10, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was deeply disturbed by the anti-Semitic vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in the Town of Warwick in Orange County. According to reports, on the morning of October 9, the gates of Temple Beth Shalom cemetery were discovered littered with large swastikas, “Heil Hitler” and the letters