The latest in Anti-Defamation League

Poll finds U.S. anti-Semitic views at historic low

2010-02-24T12:42:49Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States are at a historic low, with 12 percent of Americans prejudiced toward Jews, an Anti-Defamation League survey found on Thursday.</p><p>The U.S. civil rights group said the ...

NY: VENUS WILLIAMS RECEIVES ADL AWARD

2009-08-28T01:25:56Z

26 August 2009 - New York, NY - Tennis player Venus Williams posing with high school students after receiving the Anti-Defamation League Americanism Award for courageously and forcefully embracing America's Democratic values when she spoke out on b...

Religion News in Brief

2010-02-25T15:32:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Religion News in Brief</div><div><p>Two smaller, more conservative U.S.-based Lutheran denominations are expressing disappointment in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's decision to open a wider door to gay clergy.</p><p>The ELCA voted last week to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gay and lesbian people from serving as...

US Jews protest Catholic document on salvation

2010-02-25T17:45:09Z

<div id="subtitle">US Jewish leaders: Ties with Catholic bishops threatened by document on salvation</div><div><p>Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops' statement on salvation.</p><p>Jewish groups said t...

Group: NJ tops list in anti-Semitic hate crimes

2010-02-27T02:58:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Group: NJ had more hate crime incidents against Jews than any other state in 2008</div><div><p>New Jersey had more anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2008 than any other state.</p><p>However, the Anti-Defamation League says the number of incidents reported in the Uni...

Survey: European anti-Semitism strong

2010-03-02T01:33:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Anti-Defamation League survey finds many in Europe blame Jews for global economic meltdown</div><div><p>The Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday that a survey it commissioned found nearly a third of Europeans polled blame Jews for the global economic meltdown and that a greater number think Jews have too ...

Mo. students face punishment for `Hit a Jew Day'

2010-02-27T21:42:56Z

<div id="subtitle">At least 4 students at St. Louis-area middle school face punishment for `Hit a Jew Day'</div><div><p>At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly hitting Jewish classmates during what they called "Hit a Jew Day."</p><p>The incident happened last week at Parkway West Middle School in Chesterfield.&a...