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MEDFORD, MA - AUGUST 31: The Tufts University campus in Medford, MA is pictured on Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
September 1, 2018, 9:45 am
US students say ‘Colonizing Palestine’ university class demonizes Israel
The Hillel chapter at Tufts says that while it supports academic freedom, the course description is ‘prejudicial and unnecessarily provocative’
By Penny Schwartz
Recently arrived migrant families speak with volunteers at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center on June 21, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)
August 23, 2018, 3:41 am
US Jewish groups visit ‘heartbreaking’ border detention centers
Meeting unaccompanied migrant children, US and Mexican officials, Jewish leaders vow to push for ‘humane and compassionate immigration policies’
By Josefin Dolsten
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the ADL Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on November 6, 2014 (courtesy ADL)
July 16, 2018, 8:46 pm
ADL urges hate crime probe of man who sought to ‘kill all Jews’ in condo fire
Walter Edward Stolper, 72, captured with more than 28 gasoline containers, sulfur powder and potassium nitrate he planned to use to torch building where he faced eviction
By Eric Cortellessa
Jonathan Greenblatt, left, is the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Morton Klein, right, is the head of the Zionist Organization of America. (Getty Images via JTA)
May 16, 2018, 12:01 pm
US Jewish groups fighting — allegedly even physically — behind the scenes
3 organizations complain to umbrella group about Zionist Organization of America, charging that it has breached rules regarding personal attacks and insults
By Ron Kampeas
An anti-Semitic tweet flagged by the ADL. (Screen capture: ADL)
May 7, 2018, 5:55 pm
ADL study finds 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets posted in year
Group says anti-Jewish messages still being spread on microblogging platform despite efforts to curb hate speech
By Eric Cortellessa
A view of a Starbucks shop in Washington, DC, April 17, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
May 3, 2018, 2:16 am
Starbucks denies speculation it ‘demoted’ ADL in its anti-bias training
Coffee chain says Jewish group ‘remains a key component’ in efforts to combat racism in its 8,000 retail outlets across the US
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Andrew Silow-Carroll
May 1, 2018, 12:51 pm
Andrew Silow-Carroll
The ADL’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
The anti-prejudice group is under fire from the right, left and center of the starkly divided US Jewish community
US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 30, 2018.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
May 1, 2018, 10:51 am
Trump proclaims May annual Jewish American Heritage Month
US president praises community for contributions to society, says Jews ‘have helped guide the moral character of our nation’
By TOI staff
Starbucks logo (photo credit: Marco Paköeningrat, via Flickr, CC-BY-SA)
May 1, 2018, 9:11 am
Starbucks drops ADL from bias training amid protests
Coffee chain denies political pressure behind decision to relegate Jewish group to consulting role
By JTA and TOI staff
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the ADL Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on November 6, 2014 (courtesy ADL)
April 20, 2018, 9:57 am
How a Jewish civil rights group became a villain on the far-left
Critics accuse Anti-Defamation League of ‘selective’ activism and backing institutions seen as perpetuating racism
By Ben Sales
Women’s March National Co-Chair Tamika Mallory speaking in New York, April 22, 2017. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)
April 18, 2018, 10:35 pm
Women’s March head attacks Starbucks for including ADL in bias trainings
Controversial leader Tamika Mallory accuses the Jewish advocacy group of ‘constantly attacking black and brown people’
By JTA
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in Oxon Hill, MD on February 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/File)
April 12, 2018, 11:27 pm
Gingrich likens FBI to Gestapo on Holocaust Remembrance eve
After uproar from ADL and various US pundits, former House Speaker stands by comments, tweeting that people shouldn’t be defending bureau for raid on Trump associate’s home
By JTA
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the ADL Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on November 6, 2014 (courtesy ADL)
March 19, 2018, 4:49 am
ADL CEO tweets support for fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe
Jonathan Greenblatt highlights the role the former FBI man played during the wave of bomb threats faced by JCCs
By JTA
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state and local officials on school safety in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)
February 27, 2018, 8:21 pm
As anti-Semitic incidents in US soar, ADL says Trump is part of the problem
Jonathan Greenblatt: US president’s Twitter account has ’emboldened and given encouragement to the worst anti-Semites and bigots’
By Eric Cortellessa
A March of the Living delegation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on May 5, 2016. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
February 2, 2018, 1:05 pm
Jewish groups blast Polish Senate’s passing of Holocaust bill
ADL, B’nai B’rith International, Simon Wiesenthal Center and Orthodox Union among organizations calling on Polish president to veto legislation
By TOI staff
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