The Anti-Defamation League is seeking nominations for the 2017 Meyer and Marcelle Kranzberg Memorial Scholarship. For the past 19 years, the scholarship has recognized youth who have made outstanding contributions to the Jewish community and who may become...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published March 22, 2017
Over the past two years, the Anti-Defamation League, a national nonprofit dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, has been incredibly busy, particularly in Missouri, responding to:• Desecration at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, where 154 headstones were...
Cops’ lives matter was illustrated at a recent police appreciation event sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League’s Missouri-Southern Illinois Region, which recognized two Missouri law-enforcement officers with ADL’s 2016 Distinguished Service Awards...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published December 21, 2016
A group of Clayton High School students were disciplined last week after administrators learned that they had been targeting classmates with anti-Semitic hate speech on social media.The students had used a closed Instagram group to post offensive images...
The Anti-Defamation League of Missouri and Southern Illinois will honor two law enforcement officers with the ADL’s 2016 Distinguished Service Awards during a ceremony Dec. 9. ADL will recognize Detective Joseph T. Cichacki of the St. Louis Metropolitan...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 21, 2016
As Matt Golliver daubed various paints together, he was still trying to get his skin tone just right.“I think I’m getting a little bit closer but there is still some work to do,” said the Creve Coeur resident as he mixed fleshy hues into a single...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published August 11, 2016
Tasha Kaminsky has donated to both Jewish Federation of St. Louis and to Millennial Activists United, an organization that, among other things, provides legal assistance to people who were arrested during protests in response to the Ferguson police shooting...
The Anti-Defamation League has announced that local high school seniors Shoshana Williams (John Burroughs) and Rebecca Bloom (Clayton High School) are the recipients of the ADL’s 19th Annual Meyer and Marcelle Kranzberg Memorial Scholarship Awards. ...
The Anti-Defamation League, Missouri/Southern Illinois has hired Tasha Kaminsky as the organization’s Director of Development. Kaminsky came to the St. Louis region four years ago from Sarasota, Fla. She is a graduate of Florida State University and...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 8, 2016
An afternoon of unusually blunt talk by one of the nation’s most well-established conservative political commentators about the upcoming presidential election served as the centerpiece of the Anti-Defamation League’s Torch of Liberty Award Luncheon...
WASHINGTON — In a rare and sharp split with Israeli government policy, a group of Jewish community leaders wants to get a proposal for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the next president’s desk.Two complementary U.S. and...
During an event on June 1, the Anti-Defamation League will present its Torch of Liberty Award to John Danforth, a former Missouri Attorney General, U.S. Senator, Special Counsel on the Branch Davidian raid in Waco, Texas, and U.S. Ambassador to the United...
