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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,

Mountain States Spotlight with Audrey Fishman Franklin

Mountain States ADL Board Member and Boulder community leader Audrey Fishman Franklin shares how growing up in the smallest city in the US shaped her world view and makes her the ideal ADL advocate.    How are you involved with ADL? I have been a Board Member since 1998, have served on the Education, Civil Rights and Membership Committees, and have

Colorado Catholic School Educators attend ADL Bearing Witness Summer Institute in Washington, DC

  Two Catholic school teachers from Colorado, just back from one of the Anti-Defamation League’s premiere educational programs, say they are better prepared and committed to incorporating lessons from the Holocaust in their social studies classrooms. Linda Digan, a middle school teacher at St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Denver, and Fran Clay, a middle school teacher at Divine

Rabbi Keren Gorban represents Mountain States ADL at Interfaith Conference in Berlin

Rabbi Keren Gorban, Assistant Rabbi at Temple Sinai in Denver, CO, recently traveled to Berlin to attend the Catholic–Jewish Emerging Leadership Conference as a representative of the Anti-Defamation League.  The conference is sponsored by the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) – a coalition of world Jewish organizations of which ADL is a member – and the Vatican’s Commission