At its annual meeting this week, the Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region will welcome incoming Board Chair Jim Kurtz-Phelan and thank Neil Oberfeld for two years of outstanding service as Board Chair from 2014-2016. Jim Kurtz-Phelan, an attorney with Berenbaum Weinsheink specializing in commercial real estate, obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1972. Before
Is your school ready for the 2016-2017 school year? ADL is ready for your school to join its No Place for Hate® Initiative. It is time for schools to register and make the year-long commitment to rally students and staff around creating a positive, inclusive school culture. No Place for Hate is used as an umbrella for existing and
What do 45 schools, over 120 students, educators, administrators, family members, Anti-Defamation League volunteers, ADL board members and a prominent Civil Rights attorney have in common? All of them were not only in attendance on April 12, 2016 at ADL’s fifth annual No Place for Hate® Celebration Breakfast, but they also expressed their commitment, shared their expertise and celebrated their
On May 4, 2016, ADL hosted its 35th annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, one of the largest such events in the United States. Over 1,600 people attended the program at Temple Emanuel in Denver. The program included a moving tribute to the family of Dr. Maria Kiss Madi, a Hungarian rescuer whose family was presented with a Righteous Among the Nations Award at
While the United States grapples with the growth of some extremist groups motivated by hateful ideologies, it is also seeing the decline of one historic white supremacist group, according to three reports recently released by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The national trend holds true for Colorado and Wyoming. Last week, ADL released a new report about
