Members of ADL’s Robert B. Sturm Mountain States Leadership Fellows Program joined with 600 ADL leaders and activists from across the country from June 2-4 in Washington DC for ADL’s annual National Leadership Summit. Government officials, policy experts, journalists, opinion makers and other public figures addressed the participants on some of the most critical issues of the League’s agenda. Featured
June is Pride Month and ADL’s Mountain States Region is proud to participate with events and resources. On June 11, ADL’s NextGen 360 young professionals group sponsored “Lifting Up Transgender Voices,” a program featuring a panel discussion that enabled participants to learn about the transgender community, the unique challenges the community faces and how to be a stronger ally for
Seven skilled student writers rose to the top of 275 essays submitted from Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming to ADL’s 2019 student Essay Contest A Tribute to Moral Courage: Standing Up Against Injustice. Twenty-four judges were challenged to choose six winning essays and for the first time, they had a tie in one of the winning positions, because there were
On Saturday April 27, 2019, a gunman identified in media reports as 19-year-old John Earnest opened fire inside the Chabad Congregation in Poway, California, leaving one dead and three injured. The assault, which took place on the last day of Passover, occurred exactly six months after Robert Bowers’ deadly shooting rampage at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, which left 11 congregants dead
Several school districts in Colorado canceled classes today while law enforcement searched for a young woman from out of state accused of making threats to carry out an act of violence against schools in the Denver area. It is estimated by the Colorado Department of Education that more than half a million students and their families are impacted by
