Longtime Anti-Defamation League director and Holocaust survivor Abe Foxman dead at 86
Abraham “Abe” Foxman, the former national director of the Anti-Defamation League who dedicated his 50-year career to promoting marginalized voices and combating antisemitism, died on Sunday. Foxman, ...
The Jewish Exponent
Abraham Foxman, Transformative Longtime Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Dies at 86
Abe Foxman at an Anti-Defamation League event at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, May 8, 2014. (Photo credit: Michael Kovac/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA) Abraham Foxman, the ...
Abraham Foxman, warrior against antisemitism, dies at 86
For almost three decades, he led the Anti-Defamation League, winning access to presidents and prime ministers and meeting with Pope John Paul II.
Religion News Service
Abraham Foxman, antisemitism umpire for the ADL, dies at 86
(RNS) — As the national director of the Anti-Defamation League for almost three decades, he built up the organization into a formidable agency that tracked antisemitism and extremism, both on the ...
The Forward
Abe Foxman built the Jewish establishment. He died troubled by what it had become
Abe Foxman never texted me Shabbat Shalom, and he didn’t always answer my calls. I couldn’t blame him, because I was often looking for something more from Foxman than his comment on current events.
National Catholic Register
Abraham Foxman Never Forgot the Catholic Woman Who Saved His Life
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who died May 10, credited his Polish Catholic nanny Bronisława Kurpi with saving his life during the Holocaust.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust
The longtime ADL chief, a child survivor, helped define American Jewish leadership in the second half of the 20th century. As mourners gathered Tuesday for the funeral of Abraham Foxman, they were ...
Religion News Service
Abraham Foxman was a warrior against hate. His work is hardly complete.
(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 ...
Jewish Journal
Rosner’s Domain | Remembering the Inimitable Abe Foxman
Abraham Foxman at the Anti-Defamation League Entertainment Industry Dinner Honoring Roma Downey And Mark Burnett at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 8, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by ...
Berkshire Eagle
Losing Abe Foxman: A giant passes at a particularly bad time
In the late 1940s, when clever-sounding defenses of Soviet totalitarianism had overtaken certain fashionable political circles in Britain, George Orwell publicly addressed one leftist's soft spot for ...
The Forward
At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust
(JTA) — As mourners gathered Tuesday for the funeral of Abraham Foxman, they were saying goodbye not only to one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the last half-century, but to one of the ...