Nineteen young professionals have joined the Anti-Defamation League – Mountain States Region’s 2014-2015 Robert B. Sturm Leadership Fellows Program. The program year began with a half-day retreat at the Genesee Challenge Course in Golden, Colorado on September 7, 2014 at which the new Fellows had an opportunity to try out partner and group team-building activities on the low and high
Mountain States Anti-Defamation League Regional Director Scott L. Levin has responded to a troubling letter in The Aspen Times that blames Jews for the existence of anti-Semitism with the following letter, found below and by clicking this link: http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/13050368-113/anti-semitism-elias-jews. In his Sept. 10 letter to the editor (“Breeding anti-Semitism,” The Aspen Times), Sean Elias unfairly responded to Rabbi David Segal’s commentary
In a letter to the Editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette submitted on September 2, 2014, Mountain States Anti-Defamation League Regional Director Scott L. Levin writes: The Anti-Defamation League is appalled by Gordon Klingenschmitt’s reported comments comparing Congressman Jared Polis’s support for anti-discrimination legislation to ISIS’s beheading of Christians. In his Pray in Jesus Name Project newsletter, Klingenschmitt,
In response to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, the Anti-Defamation League has taken action at both the national and local levels. While working closely with other civil rights groups, community leaders and law enforcement on the ground, ADL has published an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, signed a Jewish community statement with dozens of national leaders, and sent a
The Mountain States Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will host a security seminar on Wednesday, September 3 to help Jewish institutions prepare for the upcoming High Holiday season. ADL is partnering with the Denver Police Department, which will host the seminar in its new Crime Lab Auditorium. The training will provide participants from across the Front Range with
