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Anti-Semitic Incidents Decline, but Levels Still of Concern
Despite a slight decline, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. remained at disturbing levels in 2005, according to ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued this week. Public activity by organized neo-Nazi and other hate groups, harassment and intimidation in the schools, and anti-Semitic activity on the college campus all contributed to the numbers. More >>
Slide Show: Anti-Semitism: The Year in Pictures
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 Al-Watan, March 25, 2006 (Qatar)
On the left from top to bottom: “Iran, Iraq and Syria.” The Jew is shouting “War.” | | Click to Enlarge | - ADL’s Annual Audit: In the News
Both locally and nationally, the release of ADL’s annual snapshot of anti-Jewish acts in America received a wide array of interest and media coverage. The following is a roundup of links to news articles from across the country where the Audit is the focus of ongoing news coverage, discussion and analysis:
National: JTA
Boston
Chicago
Colorado
Florida
New York
New Jersey
Los Angeles
- Thousands Reached Through Interfaith Seders
In the weeks leading up to Passover, thousands of people from diverse faiths and ethnic backgrounds came together in different parts of the country to celebrate the Jewish tradition of the Passover Seder in events sponsored by ADL. This year, in cities across the country, Interfaith Seders have brought together Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, Catholics, religious and community leaders, and others, to share in the experience of the Seder. More >>
- Iran Steps Up Persecution of Bahais
Disturbed at reports that the Iranian regime issued orders to state police forces to identify members of the Bahai community and monitor their activities, ADL said the directive "sets a dangerous precedent" and is reminiscent of the laws imposed on European Jews in the 1930s More>>
- Boston: ADL Testifies on Need for Bias Free Campuses
Representatives from ADL’s New England Region recently appeared before the U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education. While applauding the Commission’s focus on issues of access, accountability and quality of education, the League urged the Commission to ensure that all universities and colleges provide an educational environment where students feel safe and do not feel marginalized because of their race, national orientation, disability or religion.
- Florida: ADL Partners with School Districts on Holocaust Education
In partnership with the Broward County School District, Miami-Dade County School District, Broward CAJE, and Miami CAJE, the League introduced the new Echoes and Reflections Holocaust curriculum to 45 teachers and administrators representing 31 public and private schools throughout Broward and Miami-Dade Counties. Each school will receive a free Echoes and Reflections multimedia curriculum, which includes ten multi-part comprehensive lessons, illustrated with maps, photographs, timelines, glossary, and primary source material. Echoes and Reflections was developed by ADL in partnership with Yad Vashem and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
- Colorado and Nebraska Teens Return from Mission to Washington, DC
Forty high school students, including 20 from Colorado and 20 from Nebraska, returned home on March 29 after participating in ADL’s 7th annual Robert B. Sturm Youth Leadership Mission to Washington, D.C. During the three-day mission, the teens toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, met with a Holocaust survivor and discussed immigration and civil rights issues with Colorado Senator Ken Salazar. The Colorado students, representing 17 different high schools, will participate in a yearlong follow-up program challenging them to teach their peers about the value of diversity and consequences of hatred, prejudice and bigotry. The mission is named after businessman Robert B. Sturm, who underwrites the trip.
In the News: Rocky Mountain News
- San Diego: Conference Inspires Students to Reject Hate
ADL held its 15th annual Student Human Relations Conference at the Price Center at UC San Diego on March 22. The approximately 100 students attended a series of workshops on personal biases and identifying and responding to prejudice, bigotry and hate. ADL encouraged the students to bring those lessons back to their schools and to implement diversity programming on their campuses.
- Media Watch
LA Times Columnist Misses the Obvious 03/28/06
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Goldberg reports on, but fails to sufficiently analyze the anti-Israel screed by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
Anti-Jewish Screed Cited in Editorial 03/31/06
An editorial in the Christian Science Monitor editorial went far off base by citing a paper that invokes the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control over American foreign policy.
Editor's Note: Due to the Passover holidays, the next edition of ADL Headlines will appear on Thursday, April 27, 2006. Happy Passover! | ©2006 Anti-Defamation League. All rights reserved.
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