ADL’s 44th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program Highlights Hidden Child Survivor Pete Metzelaar

The 2025 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program  took place on April 23 at Temple Emanuel in Denver, CO with over 1300 attendees in person and online. Colorado Governor Jared Polis offered his annual Message to Colorado, Rabbi Barry Gelman of The Denver Kehilla in Denver delivered the invocation, Cantor Elizabeth Sacks movingly chanted the El Rachamim memorial prayer and ADL Mountain

Antisemitic Incident Reports in the Mountain States Region Break All Previous Annual Records in 2024

Anti-Jewish incidents in CO, NM, WY increase 48 percent year-over-year and reach highest levels in more than four decades, according to annual ADL report   Denver, CO, April 22, 2025 …Antisemitic incidents reported in 2024 in the three-state region of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming reached their highest levels in more than four decades, according to new data released today

The author's family members in Austria, 1929. The occasion for the family gathering was to lay a headstone at the grave of my great-great grandmother who had been killed in a pogrom. L-R: Siblings Chana, Anna, an unnamed sister and the author's great-grandfather Shaya Streit; center, their father Yankel Streit. Anna and the unnamed sister, along with a brother, Max, were murdered in the Buchavina, Romania, in 1941.

Gratitude on Yom Ha’Shoah

Guest blog by Sue Parker Gerson, Senior Associate Director, ADL Mountain States Region   It may seem strange to entitle a blog post “Gratitude on Yom HaShoah” when we are anything but thankful for the horror that was the Holocaust, including the decimation of civil liberties that paved its way, the loss of 6 million Jewish and 5 million other

UPDATED: Holocaust education and film resources

  Holocaust Remembrance Day: Yom Ha’Shoah u’Gevurah is on April 23-24, 2025. We invite you to explore these important educational and film resources and to share them with your friends, family members, colleagues and students. Never Again is NOW.   ADL’s 44th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program is on Wednesday, April 23 at 5:30 pm at Temple Emanuel in Denver,

Antisemitic Incident Data Breaks All Previous Records

The massive spike in antisemitic incidents following the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel continued, with totals again exceeding any annual tally tracked by ADL. This is the fourth year in a row that antisemitic incidents broke the previous all-time high.

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Antisemitic Incident Reports in the Mountain States Region Break All Previous Annual Records in 2024

Anti-Jewish incidents in CO, NM, WY increase 48 percent year-over-year and reach highest levels in more than four decades, according to annual ADL report   Denver, CO, April 22, 2025 …Antisemitic incidents reported in 2024 in the three-state region of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming reached their highest levels in more than four decades, according to new data released today

Hillel International, ADL, AJC, Jewish Federations, and CoP Urge Colleges and Universities to Prepare for Back-to-School  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Following the alarming rise in antisemitic incidents on campus, leading Jewish and educational groups call on college and university administrators to take action ahead of the new school year   July 31, 2024… ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP), Hillel International, and Jewish Federations

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Scott Melton Spotlight

Scott Melton has been an educator for over fifteen years teaching English, German, History, and Epistemology. He has been very involved with advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community for over 40 years and was an advocate for AARP for 12 years where he ended his career as the Associate State Director for AARP Florida. He has been active in the Jewish

Nash Levitt Spotlight 

Nash Levitt joins ADL’s Mountain States Region as the newest Assistant Regional Director. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nash traded cacti fields for the Rockies to earn his undergraduate degree in Strategic Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder.  Nash has worked in public relations and marketing, elevating clients across nonprofit, real estate and tech sectors through media relations