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Abraham Foxman was a warrior against hate. His work is hardly complete.

RNS·Jeffrey Salkin·21 days ago
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(RNS) — Right about now, the angels in the world to come are tearing their hair out. That is because Abraham Foxman has arrived. They will never know what hit them. Abe Foxman, the longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League, died Sunday (May 10) at the age of 86. He joined the organization in 1965 — fresh out of New York University Law School — and served for 50 years, 28 of them as national director. He made the ADL into one of the world’s foremost civil rights advocacy organizations and was the unquestioned dean of the alphabet soup system of Jewish legacy organizations. And, I dare say that even he could not have predicted the wave of antisemitism we are now experiencing — the very thing he spent his entire life fighting against. About 13 years ago, during a professional transition, I spent a year working for the ADL. I had long admired its mission and its purpose.…

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