El 86% de los padres apoya la educación sobre el antisemitismo; el 88% respalda la educación sobre el Holocausto y el 52% cree que debería ser obligatoria. Nueva York, NY, 23 de diciembre de 2024 ... Según una encuesta publicada hoy por el Centro de Investigación sobre Antisemitismo (CAR) de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL), el 71% de los padres judíos y el 37% de los padres no judíos encuestados informaron que sus hijos fueron testigos…
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New York, NY, December 23, 2024 … Seventy-one percent of Jewish parents and 37 percent of non-Jewish parents surveyed reported that their child witnessed or experienced antisemitism in K-12 classrooms or through course materials, according to a survey released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Antisemitism Research (CAR). This represents more than a third of all parents. These findings are part of a new ADL survey on attitudes of US adults and parents…
Brandeis Center/ADL/StandWithUs Expand Helpline on Antisemitism in K-12 Schools to Massachusetts and New York Boston, MA, September 30, 2024 ... The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and StandWithUs, along with a coalition of leading law firms, today announced the launch of a helpline in K-12 schools to provide pro bono legal assistance to parents whose children are experiencing antisemitism in Massachusetts and New York. The helpline…
ADL Equips “Jewish Olympics” Athletes with Antisemitism Response Tools
ADL Launches First-Ever ‘Words to Action’ Antisemitism Training in Latin America
New York, NY, June 8, 2023 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called for major American corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to pledge to fight antisemitism in their workplaces, and announced plans to audit and report on progress in 2024. By taking the “ADL Workplace Pledge to Fight Antisemitism," organizations agree to actively prevent antisemitism in their workplaces, including addressing antisemitism in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs,…
Survivor Testimony Has Profound Impact on Students New York, NY, September 8, 2020 – A new national survey shows that Holocaust education in high school reflects gains not only in historical knowledge but also manifests in cultivating more empathetic, tolerant, and engaged students. The results also indicate that exposure to Holocaust survivor testimony is strongly associated with numerous positive outcomes in early adulthood including higher critical thinking skills and a greater sense…
Curriculum is available free to high schools across the U.S. New York, NY, August 19, 2020 ... Every generation can lay claim to the shared experience of a divided nation. Yet many young people, especially Gen Z, are learning about polarization in today’s society through a barrage of soundbites, headlines and social media posts. This means that, now more than ever there is a critical need, as evident in the latest NAEP Civics Assessment, for young people to learn how to participate…
“They Needed To Be Said” New York, NY, March 24, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commended Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul D. Ryan (R-WI), for his leadership call for civility and for raising the level of political discourse.
In his remarks yesterday to a group of House interns, Speaker Ryan stressed the significance of debating civilly without questioning one’s motives. “We don’t shut down on people, and we don’t shut…
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s came about out of the need and desire for equality and freedom for African Americans and other people of color. Nearly one hundred years after slavery was abolished, there was widespread segregation, discrimination, disenfranchisement and racially motivated violence that permeated all personal and structural aspects of life for black people. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels barred African Americans from…
Americans with disabilities are a group of approximately 40.7 million people that today lead independent, self-affirming lives and who define themselves according to their personhood—their ideas, beliefs, hopes and dreams—above and beyond their disability. Since the mid 1900s, people with disabilities have pushed for the recognition of disability as an aspect of identity that influences the experiences of an individual, not as the sole-defining feature of a person. People with…
What was Kristallnacht (kris'·tahl·nockt)?
Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," was a wave of violent pogroms against Jews throughout Germany and Austria that took place on November 9-10, 1938. On the night of November 9th, the Gestapo (Nazi State Police) informed local police by telegram about the actions against Jews and their synagogues that would be taking place throughout Germany, instructing them not to interfere with what was happening. During these two nights,…
ADL's Role in Fighting Anti-Muslim Bigotry
ADL plays a leading role in exposing and combating anti-Muslim bigotry. As levels of anti-Muslim bigotry continue to surface in a variety of public forms and fora, ADL has produced reports and resources on several groups and individuals whose public campaigns have both sheltered and fueled such bigotry.
The threat of the infiltration of Sharia, or Islamic law, into the American court system is one of the more pernicious conspiracy…
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