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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1950’s and 1960’s

1950

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1950’s and 1960’s

1964

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1970’s and 1980’s

Harvey B. Schecter

Regional Director

1975-1985

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1970’s and 1980’s

With Famed Author — Kaygey

Kash of Los Angeles, Councillor

of B’nai B’rith Women, was

among several hundred Jewish

leaders attending an Anti-

Defamation League of B’nai

B’rith tribute to Elie Wiesel. Mr.

Wiesel accepted ADL’s 1978

Joseph Prize for Human Rights,

consisting of a $10,000

monetary award and a

medallion. (Credit: Whitestone

Photo)

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1970’s and 1980’s

At a private audience

with Pope John Paul II in

1979, Los Angeles

attorney Maxwell E.

Greenberg (right),

National Chairman of the

ADL, presents the Pontiff

with a copy of ADL’s

newly published book, A

Promise to Keep: A

Narrative of the

American Encounter with

Anti-Semitism, Stanislaw

Bask-Mostwin (left), Vice

President of the North

American Studium for

Polish Affairs, looks on.

(Credit: N/A)

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1970’s and 1980’s

Portrait of Dial Torgerson of the Los

Angeles Times. Mr. Torgerson was

presented the Hubert H. Humphrey First

Amendment Freedoms Prize

posthumously in 1983. (Credit: N/A)

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1970’s and 1980’s1987

California enacts first hate

crimes law based on ADL

model legislation. Forty-six

states follow suit.

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1970’s and 1980’s1989

ADL moves into current location on Santa Monica Boulevard.

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1990’s and 2000’s

David A. Lehrer

Regional Director

1986-2002

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1990’s and 2000’sJoseph and Helene Sherwood, 1994

Billy and Tootsie Veprin with

Abe Foxman, 1994

Joseph Sherwood and Tootsie Veprin, 2014

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ADL honored Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier, second from

the left, with its Lifetime Achievement Award, and Rep. Richard A. Gephardt

(D-MO), House Democrat Leader, right, with its Torch of Liberty Award at a

1998 dinner in Los Angeles. The evening’s co-chairs were ADL lay leaders

Bill Simon, left, and Grazyna Simon, second from the right. (Credit: N/A)

ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

1990’s and 2000’s

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

2000’s to Present

Amanda Susskind

Regional Director

2002-

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

2000’s to Present

2004

2019 2019

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

2000’s to Present

2004

2018

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

2000’s to Present

L’dor v’dor ~ From generation to generation

Scott Levin

GLI Class of 2018

Murray Levin

Salvin Class of 2000

Regional Board

Chair, 2006-2008

2018

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ADL Los Angeles Office, circa

2000’s to Present

Glass Class of ‘42