The Walter Kase Teacher Excellence Award pays tribute to three Region IV educators for their outstanding efforts to create an atmosphere in their schools that rejects prejudice and regards diversity as a strength. The Award is named after Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, who has dedicated much of his life to speaking to youth, educators, and community leaders about the dangers
ADL Associate Director and Director of Education Susan Shaw received the ADL’s highest award for employees, the Milton A. Senn Award, at Southwest Region’s November board meeting. The Milton A. Senn Award is given to two ADL employees, one at ADL’s National Headquarters and one regional employee, for professional excellence. Criteria include the creativity, conscientiousness and dedication, effectiveness in carrying
350 students and 75 educators attended the 2014 Beau and Abe Merfish No Place for Hate® Youth Summit at South Texas College of Law October 24. The Youth Summit began with a performance of True Confessions of a Bully by the Dionysus Theatre Troupe, which features actors with disabilities alongside actors who are able-bodied. Students then went to breakout sessions
The Anti-Defamation League has sent a letter to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, expressing disappointment that the foundation is holding its Houston Race for the Cure on Yom Kippur. ADL sent the letter to the Foundation’s local executive director, Adriana Higgins.
Eighty people attended a breakfast earlier this month to begin ADL’s 2014 Summer Associates Research Project (SARP), during which law firms allow summer associates to research questions provided by ADL that relate to the agency’s mission. Houston City Attorney David Feldman gave the breakfast’s keynote speech. He talked to the associates about the process of passing the Houston Equal
