"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. In the battle against hate, coming together in coalition is critical to have an impact. Among the many civil rights groups, faith groups and ethnic groups with whom ADL is proud to partner on issues that we share in common, one of the most important is the NAACP. This week, the NAACP is hosti...
Jul 17, 2022•12 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Social media is a major frontline these days in the battle against hate and antisemitism. While it has many benefits and gives people a voice, it also gives haters a voice. Once a year for the past four years, ADL has surveyed this community to discern the degree to which people are experienc...
Jul 10, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. There is no doubt that the frontline against hate on Saturday, May 14th was in Buffalo, New York at the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue where a white supremacist went on a killing spree. It was a heinous attack against the black community which left 10 people dead and a community in ...
Jul 03, 2022•18 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Over the past few weeks, Massachusetts has been a frontline in the battle against antisemitism as it was confronted with the “Mapping Project.” This website created by an anonymous group claims that there there is a conspiracy of “Zionism, Policing and Empire” throughout Massachusetts. It the...
Jun 28, 2022•10 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Pride month celebrates how far we have come in achieving gains for members of the LGBTQ+ community while recognizing how far we still have to go. ADL prides itself on being a strong ally to this community. But, what does that mean? ADL’s National Civil Rights Counsel Karen Levit joined the po...
Jun 19, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. New York is most certainly a frontline when it comes to antisemitism and hate as the state which is consistently home to the most antisemitic incidents across the nation, as well as the site of many hate crimes and home to many extremists. The mass shooter in Buffalo a few weeks ago is one ho...
Jun 12, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. The frontline against antisemitism and hate often comes down to the question of where you draw that line - in the center, to the left or to the right on the ideological spectrum. Literally, every day, ADL has to draw that line. It has no choice, as it is part of its DNA to respond to importan...
Jun 07, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. An important frontline in the fight against antisemitism is figuring out the scope of the problem, as well as what actually works in combatting the scourge of antisemitism. That is why ADL recently established a Center devoted to this as a pillar of the organization’s work. It is called the C...
May 29, 2022•10 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Shortly after the mass shooting incident was made known, Scott Richman flew to Buffalo, NY where he remained for three days. This podcast is a brief and personal reflection on those three days where the frontline in the battle against extremism was centered around the Tops Friendly Market on ...
May 22, 2022•10 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. The past few years have seen a very troubling rise in hate against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the United States, and ADL has played a very strong allyship role in fighting against this hate. At the forefront of these efforts is Max Sevillia, ADL's Vice Preside...
May 18, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. The staff of ADL is seen as being on the frontline of the agency’s work, but that is not the full picture. An extraordinary group of committed and generous volunteers are often the face of the organization. An incredible network of more than a thousand national and local leaders are ADL’s amb...
May 09, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Since 1979, ADL has put out an Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents. It is broadly seen as the benchmark for assessing the state of antisemitism in the United States. The 2021 Audit was released this week. This show not only discussed the findings, but it also offered a behind-the-scenes loo...
May 01, 2022•19 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. While criticism of Israel is part of a healthy political ecosystem. a segment of the left sometimes espouses ideas that go beyond legitimate critique and into antisemitic tropes. Others engage in rhetoric that is not antisemitic but which can have the effect of making many Jews feel ostracize...
Apr 24, 2022•9 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Over the past few weeks, ADL has released a series of videos for social media which explain the seven most common antisemitic tropes or myths. This is meant to complement ADL's Antisemitism Uncovered Guide. On this week's podcast, Aryeh Tuchman, the Senior Associate Director of ADL’s Center o...
Apr 10, 2022•12 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. Intensifying extremism and illiberalism pose profound threats both to Jews and other minorities in the United States and to our democracy itself. In response, ADL recently announced the creation a new senior role within the organization - the Senior Vice President for Democracy Initiatives. E...
Apr 03, 2022•10 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. ADL's Center for Technology and Society recently launched the Online Hate Index, a machine-learning system that detects hate targeting marginalized groups on online platforms. Its first system is an antisemitism classifier. Daniel Kelley, the ADL Center's Director of Strategy and Operations, ...
Mar 22, 2022•9 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. ADL recently released its fifth annual report on white supremacist propaganda. It showed that we are at historically high levels in the United States for these hateful messages that can sometimes fill communities. Jessica Reaves, the Director of Content and Editorial Strategy for ADL's Center...
Mar 15, 2022•9 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. In the past few weeks, there has been much discussion about Jews as a race. We know that they are not. But, what are they - a faith, a people, a nationality? The answer is all of the above. How can that be, what has that meant, and what does it mean today is the subject of this fascinating po...
Feb 27, 2022•12 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. The story of what happened when hostage taker Malik Akram held Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and others hostage for 11 hours on January 15, 2022 at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas is now known. What is not so well known is the inside story of ADL's role and how it responded to th...
Feb 20, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. The story of what happened when hostage taker Malik Akram held Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and others hostage for 11 hours on January 15, 2022 at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas is now known. What is not so well known is the inside story of ADL's role and how it responded to th...
Feb 13, 2022•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. As the 2022 midterm election campaigns kick into high gear, ADL’s Center on Extremism is tracking more than 100 problematic political candidates who claim to be running for political office this year. This is all detailed in a new assessment released by ADL entitled, "Extremism on the Ballot ...
Feb 03, 2022•10 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's special International Holocaust Remembrance Day podcast profiled the Hidden Child Foundation, which has been an important part of ADL for more than 30 years. The featured guest on the show was Rachelle Goldstein who serves as the Co-Director of the Hidden Child Foundation. For mor...
Jan 24, 2022•9 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's special MLK Day podcast discussed the issue of voting rights and the work of ADL to protect this fundamental right in our democracy. The featured guest on the show was Amy Feinman. She serves as ADL's Civil Rights Counsel for the Northeast. For more information, visit https://www....
Jan 14, 2022•13 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed the issue of anti-Zionism, which has become a global problem. Sharon Nazarian, ADL's Senior Vice President for International Affairs, described this issue and its scope. This podcast originally aired as a radio show on WVOX 1460 AM.
Jan 09, 2022•12 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed the recently announced civil lawsuit being brought against the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and more than 30 individual defendants for the part that they played in the attack on our nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021. The plaintiff is the District of Columbia, a...
Dec 29, 2021•10 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed a new ADL report, entitled, "The Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses, 2020-2021." It is an annual assessment of anti-Israel actions on campus. The featured guest on the show was the report's author - Justin Finkelstein, an analyst in ADL's Center on Extremism f...
Dec 19, 2021•16 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed the findings a new survey that ADL and Hillel recently conducted of Jewish students across the country. The survey focused on their experiences with antisemitism in the 2020/2021 school year. The featured guest on the show was Nora Cohen, ADL's Associate Director...
Dec 12, 2021•11 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed Echoes and Reflections, which since 2005 has trained more than 85,000 middle and high school educators to teach about the Holocaust. The featured guest on the show was Melissa Mott, the Director of ADL's Echoes and Reflections program. For more information on Ech...
Dec 05, 2021•7 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight hate and antisemitism in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed BINAH, which stands for Building Insights to Navigate Antisemitism and Hate. It is a new ADL online interactive course for high school students to learn about antisemitism and hate. Through short real-world stories, the students engage in topics like the Holocaus...
Nov 28, 2021•13 min
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight hate and antisemitism in the United States and around the world. This week's podcast discussed the "Shine a Light" campaign, which will elevate the issue of antisemitism during the week of Chanukah this year (November 28 to December 6). Some sixty organizations have partnered across the country to stand united in the face of rising antisemitism to make thi...
Nov 19, 2021•12 min
