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Excellence, Celebration & Call to Action: ADL Recognizes No Place For Hate® Successes at Annual Breakfast

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

ADL’s 35th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program Host to Righteous Among the Nations Award

  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

Connecting Moral Courage of the Past to Students of Today: A Tribute To ADL’s 2016 Moral Courage Student Essay Winners

On May 4, 2016 the winners of this year’s Student Essay Contest – A Tribute to Moral Courage: Standing Up Against Injustice – were recognized as part of ADL’s 35th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program in Denver. This year’s contest was generously underwritten by an anonymous donor. The student essay contest uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for middle and high school students to write about an individual

Gerald M. Quiat Delegates to ADL National Youth Leadership Mission Share Reflections, Projects

The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is proud to have 10 high school juniors as Gerald M. Quiat Delegates to ADL’s National Youth Leadership Mission.  This diverse group of students from across Colorado participates in a year-long program that included a trip to Washington, D.C. this past November.  Delegates joined with an incredibly diverse group of students from around the

Colorado Law Enforcement Officials Attend ADL Counterterrorism Seminar

Two Colorado law enforcement officials attended the Anti-Defamation League’s Advanced Training School (ATS) course on extremist and terrorist threats last month in Washington, D.C. Representing ADL’s Mountain States Region were Marcus Fountain, Commander of the Denver Police Department’s Investigative Support Division, and Rebecca Spies, Deputy Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety. ATS is recognized as one of