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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday criticized Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for a series of anti-gay remarks, including his assertion that children should not be “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option.” Ron Meier, ADL New York Regional Director, issued the following statement: “We are […]

Editor, San Diego Jewish World: We are heartsick by what is happening to GLBT people in our country. Last night we read news accounts of the eighth teen suicide in the past few months – the suicide of 19-year-old Zach Harrington from Oklahoma. Earlier this weekend, we read the horrific story of the brutal attack

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–  As North American Jewish college students return to campus this Fall, their security on some campuses has been questioned by a leading group of antisemitism scholars in a statement on “Contemporary Antisemitism in Higher Education:  Manifestations, Sources, and Responses.”  Assembled for two weeks, July 26 – August 6, 2010, at the U.S.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)— Democratic and Republican Jewish affiliate groups on Sunday, Oct. 10, criticized an Ohio Republican congressional candidate who dressed up as a Nazi SS man in a World War II re-creation, and in the process also criticized each other. The National Jewish Democratic Council was the first to issue a news release about

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ton Saturday expressed outrage at the violent, brutal torture of a gay man in the Bronx.　 Over a period of hours, the victim was reportedly stripped, whipped, burned and sodomized by a gang of nine attackers who lured him into an apartment after first assaulting two

NEW YORK (WJC)–The 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has come out in favor of an inter-faith center near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in Manhattan, rather than the controversial ‘Ground Zero mosque’. The plan by American Muslims to build a mosque and Islamic center in New York near where the World

BOSTON (Press Release)–The National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday issued a clarion call for voices of reason and responsibility to “stand up and speak out against the surge of anti-Muslim bigotry” that has become prominent in the breakdown of civil discourse in American society. In a major address to the League’s Annual

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has reported to Congressman Brad Sherman about the progress that the Department of Education is making on the issue of whether Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus. “I’m extremely encouraged as a result of my conversation with Secretary Duncan,”

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –It is customary to invest little in a serious reading of politicians’ speeches at long standing national holidays, like the 4th of July or Thanksgiving in the United States, Independence Day or Rosh Hashana in Israel.  What about presidential statements at occasions where the feelings of those who have suffered are