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Abe Foxman Looks Back at Changing — and Declining — Face of Anti-Semitism

JL;DR SUMMARY As Abe Foxman prepares to step down from his role as national director of the Anti-Defamation League, he reflects on the state of anti-Semitism in America, noting significant improvements since he began in 1965. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Anti Defamation LeagueHate SpeechJewish SecurityRacial PrejudiceAnti Semitism In AmericaAbe FoxmanCelebrity InfluenceOnline Anti SemitismMinority AttitudesSocial Progress

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Pine Bush, New York, United States
"A recent example cropped up last fall in the Pine Bush school district in upstate New York, when The New York Times ran a front-page story describing how Jewish students there were being bullied, beaten, taunted and harassed while authorities looked the other way."

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