With a stirring, meaningful virtual celebration, ADL commemorated 25 years of its Coalition for Mutual Respect with “Night of Harmony.” The Coalition, founded in 1995 by then board chair Regina Rogers, brings together religious and community leaders to speak with a unified voice on matters of importance to them, and ADL. Many of their messages reject bias and bigotry, and
ADL’s Southwest Region celebrated 20 years of No Place for Hate® and the recipients of the Walter Kase Educator Excellence Awards during a special program May 12. No Place for Hate began in Southwest Region with nine schools in 2001. In the 20 years since 2001, it has grown to hundreds of participating campuses each year, and has touched tens of
In 2020, antisemitic incidents remained at a historically high level across the U.S. with a total of 2,024 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL. Last year saw the third-highest number of reported incidents against American Jews since ADL started tracking the data in 1979.
Joanna Mendelson, ADL Associate Director of our Center on Extremism spoke to board members at the March 24 board meeting about the landscape of extremism and hate, and she began with saying in her 20 years at ADL, it never has been so busy. She said we’re in a climate now where extremists have become emboldened. They openly display their
Amy Iandiorio joined ADL as an Investigative Researcher in November 2019. In her role at the Center on Extremism her areas of focus include white supremacist groups, Incels, and the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement. She is based in the Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta and serves as a resource for the Southern Division.
ADL’s Senior Vice President of International Affairs, Sharon Nazarian, spoke before the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston March 4. Part of her job is monitoring and countering global antisemitism, so she was well-positioned to talk about why it seems to be on the rise around the world, and what ADL is doing to prevent it and combat it. She
