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Walter Kase Educator Excellence Award Recipients Celebrated At No Place for Hate® Luncheon

Three Houston-area educators received accolades and the Walter Kase Teacher Excellence Award at ADL’s No Place for Hate® luncheon.   The Award, named after revered Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, is presented annually to three educators for their outstanding efforts to create a school atmosphere that promotes respect for and understanding of diversity. Recipients of the Award included English Teacher Mary Catherine

Diana E. Marshall Receives 2017 Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award

Nearly 600 members of Houston’s legal community turned out to honor attorney Diana E. Marshall with the Anti-Defamation League’s 2017 Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award.  The award goes annually to an outstanding member of the legal community who exhibits an exceptional commitment to equality, justice, fairness and community service. Since childhood, Marshall has worked diligently for social justice, and to

ADL Sends Letter to President of Texas State University

ADL’s Southwest Region sent a letter to President Denise Trauth of Texas State University, thanking her for her statement denouncing anti-Semitic fliers that appeared on the university’s campus March 2.  The fliers began with the words: “White man, are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through mass immigration and degeneracy?” and were emblazoned with swastikas. ADL’s