ADL Podcast

Melissa Goodman, Senior Staff Attorney ACLU of Southern California speaks on Reproductive Rights at ADL’s 2014 MCLE Symposium, held in Los Angeles, CA.

Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law speaks at ADL’s 2014 MCLE Symposium, held in Los Angeles, CA.

As a nineteen-year-old soldier serving in a segregated unit of the U.S. Army, Dr. Leon Bass participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. This moving podcast has Dr. Bass sharing his story with a group of young leaders at this years ADL National Youth Leadership Mission.

andnbsp; At ADL’s recent National Youth Leadership Mission, Nesse Godin shared her experiences about surviving the Holocaust with a group of young leaders from around America. Nesse is a Lithuanian American Holocaust survivor who has dedicated her adult life to teaching and sharing memories of the Holocaust. Nesse is known for the ability to translate the Holocaust into a personal glimpse of this enormous and horrifying history. andnbsp;

Award Winning Documentary Filmaker and Producer of Jew Bashing: The New Anti-Semitism Martin Himel on Exposing Anti-Semitism through the Lens. Recorded at ADLs last Annual Meeting in New York

ADL and Emory Law School partnered on this event where a dialogue on one of the most timely questions in America today occurred: Has protecting the American people in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led to an erosion of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution? Featured Speakers: John Chandler, Sr. Litigation Partner, King andamp; Spalding; Board of Advisors, ACS Georgia Lawyer Chapter Mark Giluliano, Special Agent in Charge, Atlanta Division, FBI Charles Shanor, Professor, Emory Law School, Sally Yates, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Georgia andnbsp;

A Centennial View on Faith and Religion in American Life by author Pulitzer prize winning Jon Meacham. Jon Meacham is also the Executive Vice President of Random house. The talk was recorded at an ADL meeting in October 2013 in New York. andnbsp;

Over 200 attendees came together at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, for the program, appropriately titled, “America – A Nation of Immigrants: Where We Stand Today,” after President Kennedy’s book, “A Nation of Immigrants.” Panelists included Jose Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and the founder of the Define American campaign, Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum in Washington D.C., and Reverend Imm Tan, Director of the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians. The panel was moderated by John Willshire-Carrera, Co-Managing Director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School. andnbsp;

A panel of experts discuss Voting Rights, LGBT Progress andamp; Reproductive Freedom at ADL’s National Commission Meeting, New York,  October 2013

Discussing current affairs and ADL’s work is special guest Chuck Hagel - at ADL’s National Commission Meeting in New York 2013.

This impressive panel makes some informed predictions on what lies ahead for the United States of America. Barbara R. Arnwine (President and Executive Director Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), Evan Wolfson (Founder and President, Freedom to Marry), Jose Calderson (President, Hispanic Federation), and moderator Soledad O’Brien (Journalist and CEO Starfish Media Group). andnbsp;

Samantha Power, the U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, gives a keynote address at the ADLs October 2013 National Commission Meeting. andnbsp;