ADL New York/New Jersey Regional Director Evan Bernstein sat down with PBS’s Jenna Flanagan to reflect upon the tragedy at Tree of Life of Synagogue in Pittsburgh, signs of escalating hate in our society, and how communities must focus on education to ensure young people know hate will not be tolerated.

In response to recent reports that ICE New Jersey spokesman Emilio Dabul has affiliations to hate groups, Evan Bernstein, ADL New York / New Jersey Regional Director, issued the following statement: “The apparent ties of ICE New Jersey spokesman Emilio Dabul to anti-Muslim extremists is a matter of serious concern. Dabul has well-documented ties to ACT for America, a group founded

Fears and tempers rise for the second in a week, as Jewish men were attacked, choked and threatened with murder in Brooklyn. New York Regional Director Evan Bernstein sat down the PBS MetroFocus in New York to talk about these recent assaults and the overall rise in anti-Semitic incidents. Read ADL’s full statement, including a $5,000 reward for information on

Students at Barnard College have voted 2 to 1, calling for the administration to divest in companies that do business with Israel. The Anti-Defamation League says it’s concerned about BDS and is now educating high school students and parents about it before they arrive on campus. New York Regional Director Evan Bernstein spoke with WCBS-TV in New York about the vote and the BDS movement.

Nationally, ADL recorded the largest single-year increase on record since it began tracking incident data in the 1970s. There were 380 incidents of anti-Semitism reported in New York State in 2017, including physical assaults, vandalism, harassment and attacks on Jewish institutions, according to ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, compared to 199 such incidents in 2016. “New Yorkers are seeing an