ADL Receives 2015 NAACP Presidential Award The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was presented the National Association of Colored People’s (NAACP’s) Presidential Award at the Houston chapter’s 97th Annual Freedom Fund Advocacy and Awards Gala: “Pursuing Liberty in the Face of Injustice” on October 30.   The award was accepted by ADL National Chair Marvin D. Nathan.   He told the crowd: “Our organizations

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced the election of Houston attorney and community leader Marvin D. Nathan as its new National Chair. Founder of the law firm Nathan Sommers Jacobs, Mr. Nathan has been actively involved with ADL for more than three decades. He was elected to serve a three-year term as National Chair during ADL’s 2015 annual meeting in Denver,

ADL’s Jean and Jerry Moore Southwest Area Counsel Cheryl Drazin wrote a letter to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller to express disappointment in the image shared on his Facebook page recently, which showed a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb and said, “It’s time we made peace with the Muslim World.” ADL noted that the rhetoric promoted by the picture

ADL’s Southwest Region responded immediately and continues to work with victims of two separate graffiti incidents in San Antonio, targeting synagogues, homes, and cars.   Residents of a northwest San Antonio neighborhood surrounding Congregation Rodfei Sholom woke up August 12 to racist and anti-Semitic graffiti on cars, houses, and the campus of the synagogue.  The vandalism also included a rock

Nearly 30 summer associates from ten law firms began the Summer Associates Research Project (SARP) with a kickoff breakfast headlined by Jean and Jerry Moore Southwest Civil Rights Counsel Cheryl Drazin.   Cheryl spoke about the history of ADL, the importance of its work in general, and the significance of the work the summer associates would be doing. “I wanted them