Recently added articles from ADL on the Frontline:
DIRECTOR'S CORNER
Oct 01, 2008; ... A presidential election provides ADL with an opportunity to express, through submissions to the two parties' platform committees, our priorities for domestic and international concerns. I look at our submissions - highlights of which appear on pages four and five, and the full text of which can ...
NEWS BYTES
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEWS AND EVENTS THAT CHANGE OUR LIVES ARAB MEDIA EXPLOIT CAMPAIGN The presidential race has provided a new excuse for Arab media to circulate offensive depictions of Jews and Israel like the one at left from ADL's online report, The U.S. Presidential Candidates: Cartoons in Arab ...
ADL'S AGENDA FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
Oct 01, 2008; ... WHERE ADL STANDS, AND WHAT WE WILL BE WORKING FOR Will the new U.S. president and his administration fight anti-Semitism forcefully? Will they press for agreements between Israel and its neighbors without sacrificing Israel's security? Will they make sure no child feels unwelcome in ...
ADL LEADS THE FIGHT AGAINST HATE CRIMES
Oct 01, 2008; ... With 45 state hate-crime laws on the books, ADL is working to protect new hate crime victims in America and Europe. Ten years ago, a Texas man accepted a ride in a pickup truck with three white men. Instead, the men chained James Byrd Jr. to the back of the truck and dragged him three ...
MAKING NEW LEADERS
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Glass Leadership Institute and National Leadership Conference train a new generation of activists. Imagine this: Once a month, you and a dynamic group of young adults gather to hear experts explain a myriad of issues that interest you. After several months, your group and others from ...
ADL CHALLENGES PROFESSOR OF HATE
Oct 01, 2008; ... "A political crisis over Jewish influence is exactly what the United States needs. Israel has the world's one remaining military superpower B B completely at its bidding. It's possible to have rational anti-Semitism ..." These are the words of Kevin MacDonald, a tenured ...
HOW TO STAND UP FOR ISRAEL: A GUIDE FOR ACTIVISTS
Oct 01, 2008; ... How should you respond to the classmate, colleague, neighbor, news commentator or political opponent who says: * Palestinians were systematically expelled from their land by Israel in 1948? * Israel is an apartheid state that should be fought through divestment and ...
$1 MILLION CHALLENGE GRANT FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM
Oct 01, 2008; ... Harvey L. Miller, the founding funder of The Miller Early Childhood Initiative of A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute, has issued a generous Si million challenge grant to the Anti-Defamation League for gifts between $50,000 and $500,000 that are pledged and paid in 2008. The purpose of the grant is ...
CYBERBULLYING PROGRAMS WIN AWARD
Oct 01, 2008; ... ADL was honored by a prestigious online safety and education group for its efforts to combat cyberbullying, defined as intentional harm inflicted through electronic media. ADL received the "Stop Cyberbullying Excellence and Awareness Award" during the International Stop Cyberbullying ...
NEW ONLINE ANTI-BIAS PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS
Oct 01, 2008; ... ADL's A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute has launched a new professional development diversity training program to suit the needs of the zist century teacher. Making Diversity Count(TM) (MDC), an online anti-bias program, is now available to help secondary school educators build respectful ...
EMPOWERING TEENS TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Oct 01, 2008; ... Students in ADL's A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Summer Internship Program learn how to succeed at work and promote respect for diversity at home. Every summer since 1992, the New York Regional Office of ADL has selected promising high school students from across New York City and Long ...
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Oct 01, 2008; ... All of the quotations below first appeared in The INTERNal Report, the weekly newsletter initiated and published by the 2008 A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Summer Interns. "ADL summer interns get to experience one of the most influential summers of their lives." - Annabelle, ...
Boston: CONFRONTING CYBERBULLYING
Oct 01, 2008; ... More than 1,000 middle and high school students from across New England and their teachers heard from Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) experts about the disturbing increase in bullying via the Internet, cell ...
Cleveland: AN OHIO CLASS GETS ITS FIRST SPEAKER ON ANTI-SEMITISM
Oct 01, 2008; ... Nearly 100 students heard about the persistence and dangers of anti-Semitism - why it exists, its various forms, and why it is wrong and dangerous to all people. The presentation, given by ADL Ohio/Kentucky/Allegheny Assistant Regional Director Benjamin Rancman in an elective high school class ...
Denver: TEENS PRODUCE 55,000 COFFEE SLEEVES TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY
Oct 01, 2008; ... Visitors to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver learned what it means to respect diversity while sipping coffee, thanks to 20 Colorado high school students trained by ADL. The teens designed insulating coffee cup sleeves printed with ADL's logo (see below) and a message explaining ...
Florida: SYNAGOGUE HIT BY HATE
Oct 01, 2008; ... Jews in Parkland, Florida, were chilled to find the words "4 Hitler" painted on a stop sign in front of a Chabad synagogue on the eve of Yom Hashoah, the walls of which were also desecrated with three swastikas. The ADL Florida Office and Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti immediately went to ...
Houston: EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD BECOMES ADL COMMUNITY OF RESPECT(TM)
Oct 01, 2008; ... In July, ADL's Southwest Region was pleased to award the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) with the designation ADL Community of Respect(TM). To earn it, the Synod drafted and signed its own Resolution of Respect, and published numerous ...
New Jersey: NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH ADL
Oct 01, 2008; ... ADL welcomed a decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court, which held that anti-Semitic comments directed toward a police officer by co-workers and supervisors were improperly dismissed by a lower court as "mere teasing." The decision, in Cutler v. Dorn, reversed a very troubling lower court ...
New York: ADL HOSTS BRITISH CHIEF RABBI SIR JONATHAN SACKS
Oct 01, 2008; ... Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, spoke about challenges to the European Jewish community at an ADL reception in New York. The event, which attracted 120 attendees, was hosted by ADL National Commissioner Ronald Lauder in the home of the late Estee Lauder. Chief Rabbi Sacks ...
Orange County/Long Beach: PROMOTING DIVERSITY THROUGH SALSA
Oct 01, 2008; ... Hoping to foster friendship and respect between the Jewish and African-American communities, ADL's Intergroup Relations Committee hosted a United We Dance salsa event with Christ Our Redeemer AME Church (COR AME), a predominately African-American megachurch in Orange County. It was their third ...