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Mountain States Spotlight with Jim Kurtz-Phelan

Mountain States ADL Board Chair-Elect Jim Kurtz-Phelan shares his passion for Israel, the law, and working to ensure fair treatment for all.   How did you first become involved in ADL?  I participated in an ADL Speakers Bureau beginning in 1982 after the Lebanon War that year led to a lot of political attacks on Israel.  I was invited to

Ballot measures seek to roll back advances in gay rights

  Less than two weeks after the United States Supreme Court’s historic same-sex marriage ruling, two Coloradans filed proposed ballot measures aimed at rolling back advances in legal protections and equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Coloradans. The first initiative would redefine all marriages in Colorado as civil unions in order to undermine the Supreme Court’s decision that

Mountain States ADL in Action

  Recently, the Mountain States office of the Anti-Defamation League spoke out concerning anti-Israel bus ads in Denver and reports of an “anti-Ramadan” barbecue in Colorado Springs. Commenting on a story by KDVR Fox 31 News that accused Colorado’s RTD, or Regional Transportation District, of applying a double-standard when deciding which ads to accept or reject as it pertained specifically