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No Place For Hate® Continuing in Mountain States Region for Its Eighth Year

  The Anti-Defamation League’s No Place For Hate® Initiative in the Mountain States Region continues with fervor in its eighth year! Sign up your school today! It is not too late!! We already have more than 40 schools working towards their designation for the 2014-2015 school year. All of our information, resources and school registration materials are now available online at www.adl.org/noplaceforhatedenver.

Mountain States Spotlight with Adam Ross

  ADL Board Member Adam Ross shares how hearing National Director Abe Foxman speak helped to spark a deep connection to ADL.   How are you involved with ADL? I am an ADL Board member and also co-chair of the Robert B. Sturm Mountain States Leadership Fellows Program, and I serve on the education and development committees. What do you

Yad Vashem Holocaust Education Seminar Co-Sponsored by ADL

On August 10, 2014, nearly 30 educators from Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska attended a free full-day professional development event focusing on teaching the Holocaust in the classroom. The workshop was presented by visiting scholar  Ephraim Kaye, Director of International Seminars at The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel.

ADL Documents “Dramatic” Surge in Global Anti-Semitism During Operation Protective Edge in Gaza this Summer

A new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) provides a snapshot of the dramatic upsurge in violence and hatred against Jews around the world during and related to Israel’s recent military operation to stop Hamas rockets and dismantle tunnels in Gaza.  Violence against Jews and Jewish institutions increased significantly during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in July and August. In Casablanca,

ADL Letter Thanks Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock for Compassionate Response to Immigrant Children

August 4, 2014   Dear Mayor Hancock:   On behalf of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), I write today to thank you for your compassionate response to the humanitarian situation along our nation’s border. We cannot turn a blind eye to the plight of thousands of children fleeing violence in their homelands. We support the City and County of Denver’s application