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New York, NY, April 7, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and Fund Sponsor of the JLens 500 Jewish Advocacy U.S. ETF (NYSE: TOV), today calls upon shareholders of two prominent global defense companies to vote AGAINST shareholder proposals that JLens believes were designed to pressure the companies into severing ties with Israel. The companies, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), are portfolio holdings of TOV, a faith-based ETF that…

New York, NY, April 10, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and affiliate of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), announced today the recipients of its 2024 Corporate TOV Awards. The TOV Awards, whose name reflects the Hebrew word for “good,” were created to annually recognize and honor 18 companies that rank highly and outperform peer companies according to JLens’ Jewish values scorecards. The 18 TOV Awards recipients were selected based on JLens’…

New York, NY, March 24, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response Columbia University’s announcement that it will be taking significant action to curb antisemitism on its campus: “We welcome Columbia University’s announcement that it is taking significant action to curb antisemitism on its campus. Over the past 18 months, Columbia inadequately addressed the crisis of antisemitism on its campus following the 10/7 terror…

El sesgo antiisraelí y antisemita, junto con la manipulación de contenidos en Wikipedia, socavan la neutralidad de la plataforma  Nueva York, NY, 18 de marzo de 2025 ... Por medio de una extensa investigación, los investigadores del Centro de Tecnología y Sociedad (CTS) de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) encontraron un prejuicio antisemita y antiisraelí muy extendido en Wikipedia, incluyendo pruebas claras de una campaña coordinada para…

New York, NY, March 18, 2025, …  Through an extensive investigation, ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) researchers found widespread antisemitic and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia, including clear evidence of a coordinated campaign to manipulate Wikipedia’s content related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in likely violation of Wikipedia’s policies. The report further found that pro-Hamas perspectives inform Arabic-language…

NEW YORK, NY, March 11, 2025 – The JLens 500 Jewish Advocacy U.S. ETF (NYSE:TOV; the “Fund”), a groundbreaking exchange-traded fund designed to empower investors to combat antisemitism, support Israel and embody Jewish values, announced today that it has exceeded $100 million in assets, less than two weeks after its launch. The Fund, whose ticker symbol “TOV” is the Hebrew word for “good,” began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on February 27,…

New York, NY, January 17, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the disciplinary action taken against multiple editors by the Wikipedia arbitration committee in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform. Among those topic-banned by Wikipedia from the Israel-Palestine discussion were Iskandar323, Selfstudier, Nableezy, Levivich and Nishidani – all of whom ADL has identified as being part of a bad-faith…

School District of Philadelphia Agrees to Address Repeated Incidents of Antisemitism  New York, NY, December 20, 2024 … The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) has entered into a resolution agreement to take a series of steps to address repeated incidents of antisemitic harassment, bullying and discrimination in response to a federal civil rights complaint filed by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Under the terms of the settlement announced yesterday, SDP will undertake a…

Speakers at People of Color Conference accused Israel of genocide and downplayed Hamas  New York, NY, December 11, 2024 …ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), American Jewish Committee (AJC), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools today expressed “deep concern” about remarks at a recent conference of the National Association of Independent Schools where several speakers used their time to accuse Israel of genocide and used…

New York, NY, December 4, 2024 … Jewish American job candidates needed to send 24 percent more applications to receive the same number of positive first responses from prospective employers as Americans with Western European backgrounds when applying to the same role, according to a study published today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Antisemitism Research. Further, Israeli Americans needed to send 39 percent more applications, indicating substantial discrimination. For…

New York, NY, November 26, 2024 … Occidental College has agreed to take a series of steps to address and prevent antisemitism on campus as part of a sweeping settlement agreement reached in response to a federal Title VI complaint filed by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Under the terms of the settlement announced today, the Los Angeles-based private liberal arts college has agreed to undertake a series of initiatives to…

House committee finds "stunning failures" at several colleges and universities in confronting antisemitism  New York, NY, October 30, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today commended the House Committee on Education and the Workforce for its investigation into the antisemitism that has taken colleges and universities by storm since the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023. The committee’s investigation found that the leadership of several institutions failed to…

ADL Recognizes Colleges and Universities That Made Positive Strides to Fight Campus Antisemitism Urges other institutions to follow suit as it reassesses Report Card grades New York, NY, October 30, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today commended 10 colleges and universities for their recent efforts and policies to address campus antisemitism. Since the initial release of ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report Card in April of 2024, and a subsequent update in June following…

 El mayor número de incidentes antisemitas jamás registrado por la ADL en solo un año Nueva York, NY, 6 de octubre de 2024 ... Según datos preliminares de Liga Antidifamación (ADL), en el año transcurrido desde el ataque terrorista de Hamas el 7 de octubre contra Israel ha habido más de 10.000 incidentes antisemitas en Estados Unidos. Este es el mayor número de incidentes jamás registrado en un período de un a…

New York, NY, October 6, 2024 … There have been more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, according to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) preliminary data. This is the highest number of incidents ever recorded in any single year period since ADL started tracking in 1979. These newly released figures, from Oct. 7, 2023 to Sept. 24, 2024, represent an over 200-percent increase compared to the incidents…

New York, NY, September 19, 2024 … Adopting an Israel divestment strategy aligned with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement could lead to significant negative financial implications for university endowments, finds a report released today by JLens, the leading Jewish values-based investor network, part of the ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) family.  The report, the first of its kind to thoroughly quantify these risks, analyzed the historical…

Tallahassee, Florida, September 18, 2024 … Florida State University’s (FSU) Maura’s Voice Research Fund (MVRF) and ADL (Anti-Defamation League) are renewing their partnership established in 2023 to perform research into the extremist elements of misogynistic subculture, including potentially violent incels -- who continue their often-deadly attacks on women and girls in the US and around and the world. ADL-MVRF research and related publications will now be published and…

Los investigadores registran importantes picos de vandalismo, acoso y agresiones durante el año académico 2023-24. Nueva York, NY, 16 de septiembre de 2024, ... Un total de 2.087 incidentes anti-Israel de agresiones, vandalismo, acoso, protestas/acciones y resoluciones de desinversión se registraron en los campus universitarios de Estados Unidos entre el 1 de junio de 2023 y el 31 de mayo de 2024. Esto representa un aumento del 477% en esas mismas categorías en…

New York, NY, September 16, 2024, … A total of 2,087 anti-Israel incidents of assault, vandalism, harassment, protests/actions and divestment resolutions were recorded on college and university campuses in the United States between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. This represents a 477 percent increase in those same categories compared to the prior school year, according to a new ADL (Anti-Defamation League) report released today.   The annual campus report from the ADL…