New York, NY, December 9, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed alarm and concern over the early morning stabbing of a yeshiva student from Israel inside a study hall at the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The assailant was subsequently shot and killed by police. The incident appears to be an isolated event. Evan R. Bernstein,
New York, NY, December 4, 2014 … In response to a Staten Island grand jury’s failure to issue an indictment in the Eric Garner case, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said the decision “reminds us that the problems we face as a nation transcend Garner and Ferguson,” and that our nation “must all come together to address the persistence of
New York, NY, November 26, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said an Instagram post by Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush equating the situation in Ferguson with the Palestinian people, “demonstrates a severe lack of understanding of both issues.” Bush posted a photo on his account yesterday of a man holding up a sign which read, “The Palestinian people know what mean to
New York, NY, November 19, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed an arrest in the assault of a Jewish man from Israel at the Marcy Avenue subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. According to reports, the victim was attacked on November 17 by three assailants who called him a “dirty bloody Jew” and a “f—ing Jew,” spit at him,
New York, NY, November 7, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed a federal judge’s ruling to allow students’ case to go forward against the Pine Bush Central School District. The lawsuit raised allegations that several Jewish students suffered egregious anti-Semitic discrimination at the hands of a number of other students and were unable to get school officials to
