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Breaking News New ADL Chief Courts Younger Generation With Nod to Silicon Valley
(JTA) — Framed by a slide of two young guys in jeans and T-shirts playing ping-pong on the Facebook campus, Jonathan Greenblatt described an event hosted by the social media behemoth in Palo Alto, California, the week before. “Some of the stuff we’ve done has been really exciting, like in Silicon Valley,” Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation…
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Breaking News Anti-Defamation League Urges Feds To ‘Deepen’ Probe of Tamir Rice Shooting
The Anti-Defamation League’s Cleveland office called on the U.S. Justice Department to “deepen its investigation” of the Tamir Rice case after a grand jury failed to indict two city police officers involved in the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old African-American boy. “Tamir Rice’s death is a tragedy that, along with too many other cases, have…
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The Schmooze Jane Fonda Presents Salma Hayek’s Husband With ADL Award
Francois-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of Kering and husband of film star Salma Hayek, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at its November 18 Gala. Addressing a stellar American and French audience at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Empire Room Ashley Judd paid tribute to the tragedy in Paris — asked for a moment of silence for France,…
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Breaking News ADL Study Sees 30% Jump in Anti-Israel Campus Activity
The Anti-Defamation League reported a 30 percent jump in anti-Israel activity on college campuses this year. According to a report released Wednesday, over 150 “explicitly ant-Israel programs” have either taken place or are scheduled to take place on American campuses. Last year, the corresponding figure was 105. The increase follows an identical 30 percent increase…
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Opinion Hope and Foreboding for Jews on Streets of Paris
I have visited Europe many times, but last week I looked at it through a new lens in my first trip as CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. I undertook the trip after an invitation to address the annual meeting of the CRIF, the representative body for the French Jewish community and a valued ADL partner….
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Breaking News ADL Slams Ben Carson for ‘No Muslim President’ Stand
The Anti-Defamation League denounced Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s suggestion that a Muslim should not be allowed to serve as president. The ADL denounced the remarks, which Carson made on national television Sunday as “deeply offensive, un-American and contrary to the Constitution.” “There is no religious litmus test for candidates seeking political office, and that…
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Breaking News ADL Blasts Controversial Pennsylvania Professor for ‘Sluts’ Facebook Post
A tenured professor at a Pennsylvania university drew strong criticism on Thursday from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which issued a statement condemning his social media posts as “deeply offensive and outrageous.” Kaukab Siddique, a literature professor at Lincoln University, made derogatory comments toward women regarding rape in a Facebook post earlier this month. “Many women…
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Opinion On My Last Day as ADL Director, I’m Worried About Iran
Today is the last day of my long tenure as national director of the Anti-Defamation League. It has been a highly satisfactory and meaningful 28 years as director and 50 years as a professional at this prestigious organization. So why am I choosing to write an article on my last day? It is the same…
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