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ADL continues to serve as trusted partner to UCLA Hillel

When UCLA’s Daily Bruin ran an anti-Israel cartoon that plainly evoked anti-Semitic tropes, the campus Hillel immediately reached out to ADL for input. ADL helped UCLA Hillel Executive Director Rabbi Aaron Lerner and students craft a response by suggesting the following language; “It is deeply offensive, not to mention incorrect, to suggest that the Israeli government is willfully changing the

ADL’s Amanda Susskind in Dialogue with Prof. Dan Schnur at Temple Emanuel: Is it Safe to be Jewish in America?

On February 2, ADL Pacific Southwest Regional Director Amanda Susskind and Political Analyst and Director of the USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics Dan Schnur participated in a Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hill’s Behrendt Conversation Series Event, “It’s 2017: Is it Safe to be Jewish in America?” The discussion centered on the premise that the 2016 election emboldened white

ADL Analyst Brings Information on Anti-Israel Activity to Southland Audiences

ADL Center on Extremism Analyst Gil Naor visited the Pacific Southwest Region in January and spoke to various L.A. audiences about Israel.  On January 10, he was the featured speaker at the Regional Board meeting about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.  As a former Jewish Agency Israel Fellow at Cornell University Hillel, Naor dealt “on-the-ground” with BDS.  In