New York, NY, February 11, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today raised to $10,000 its reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator who stabbed Yehuda Brikman in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on February 10. The reward was bolstered with a funding commitment from a concerned member of the community. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force
New York, NY, February 10, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed shock and horror over the stabbing of a 25 year-old Jewish man in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and subsequently offered a $5000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator. This is the second such attack in Crown Heights. In November,
New York, NY, February 3, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern over a problematic video shown in a Rockland County school classroom which espoused anti-Semitic stereotypes, presented a historically inaccurate portrayal of Jews and Judaism, and made multiple references to Judaism as inferior to Christianity. The video, which was played in a social studies class at Clarkstown
New York, NY, January 12, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was shocked by the alleged anti-Semitic vandalism of a home in Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York. On December 29, a Jewish family awoke to find six swastikas and the word “Jews” spray-painted on the outside of their home. The swastikas covered the home’s windows, and
New York, NY, January 7, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was deeply troubled by the vandalism of a Hasidic Jewish home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
According to reports, on January 2, graffiti was discovered scrawled on the home of Jewish residents, including swastikas and the words “Hitler was a hero.” The vandalism follows a string of harassing incidents against the home’s residents.
