Registration has begun for participation in the Southwest Region’s No Place for Hate® Initiative for the 2015-2016 school year. This marks the 15th year of the Initiative in the region, which provides educators and students with the resources to ensure that anti-bias and diversity education are an integral part of the school curriculum. No Place for Hate® also helps to create
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
September 9 marked the first meeting of the newly formed ADL Associate Board. The Associate Board is a platform for exemplary young leaders and professionals to stay connected to ADL in a meaningful way. The meeting was led by Associate Board co-chairs Nicole Soussan and Allison Wilden. Southwest Regional Board Chair Ian Scharfman was present to welcome and thank the
As we move into the new year, please accept our wishes for a healthy, happy new year full of sweetness, respect and love, and devoid of trouble, hate and floodwaters! Events of the past year remind us just how vital the Anti-Defamation League, the work we do together and the work you support so generously is of utmost importance. We
