ADL leaders from the Austin, Texoma and Southwest Regional Offices met at the State Capitol February 11 to learn about and lobby on issues related to immigration reform, LGBTQ rights, and religious freedom.  Southwest Regional participants included Board Chair Mark Finkelstein, Debby Kerner, Scott Hochberg, Paul Colbert, Allison Collins, Gail Glasser, Abbie Kamin and Rachel Bresner. ADL participants reviewed issues

ADL’s Associate Board can be proud of a very successful Civility Project led by its Community Partnerships Committee and Programming Committee in partnership with the Houston Area Urban League Young Professionals and Lambda NextGen.   The Civility Project was facilitated by Resetting the Table. About 50 people gathered at the AZA law firm, which generously donated space for the Sunday afternoon

Some of you might know Luke McKibben because you’ve been to our Beau and Abe Merfish No Place for Hate® Youth Summit and you’ve seen him skillfully facilitate a StepUp! assembly there. But chances are, you don’t notice Luke much, even though he’s around, because he’s a behind-the-scenes kind of guy.  In addition to being a wonderful, much-utilized A WORLD

Some Houston-area Jewish students are better prepared to recognize and respond to anti-Semitism, thanks to ADL’s Words to Action Program and  two dedicated Words to Action facilitators, Erica Robinson and Jenny Selber Gustafson. Jenny recently worked with 50 congregants at Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands (CBSW). The group included teens and parents. CBSW’s Adult Education Chaperone, Beryl Geber, said

As I begin my term as chair of the ADL Southwest Region, it is daunting and exciting for me.   It is pretty easy to identify where the daunting part comes from. In the last months of 2018, at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, we were sadly witness to the deadliest attack on Jews on American soil: an attack