The 2021-2022 school year is around the corner and ADL is ready for another successful and creative No Place for Hate school year. The ADL Mountain States Region is excited to support schools with critical anti-bias education and bullying prevention resources. No Place for Hate 2021-2022 – Registration is open for all K-12 schools in Colorado, New Mexico and
The 2021 ADL Virtual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program features a keynote interview with Holocaust Survivor Judith Altmann. Register here. We recently spoke with Judy about her experiences during the Holocaust and her thoughts about how her experience shaped her. ADL: Please describe your life before the Holocaust. What was your childhood like? Judy Altmann: I had a wonderful
In 1941, a dedicated group of community leaders – led by Col. Melvin Schlesinger and including such notables as Lou Isaacson, A.B. Hirschfeld, Max Goldberg, and Emmett Heitler – started a regional office of the Anti-Defamation League in Denver. Some say it was the first regional office ever organized outside of Chicago, where ADL was founded in 1913, and
Wyoming lawmakers tabled a bill last week that would have created a bias-motivated crimes law in the state, commonly referred to as a hate crime law. House Bill 218 was postponed indefinitely on March 12 by members of the Wyoming House Judiciary Committee. The bill would have allowed a court to take into account a suspect’s targeting of an
Current research shows that understanding and knowledge about the Holocaust continues to fall while antisemitic and hate incidents continue to rise. In response, the ADL Mountain States Region and the New Mexico Holocaust Museum are excited to announce a new partnership intended to broaden the educational reach of both institutions to students and families in New Mexico. The New
