David A. Lehrer is the president of Community Advocates, Inc. a Los Angeles based human relations organization. He was counsel and regional director of the ADL for 27 years.
David Lehrer
By David Lehrer
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Community Donald Trump is the most serious threat to American Jewish security in the past half century
Forty-five years in the Jewish civil rights field did not prepare me for the Jewish community’s response to Donald Trump. From Gerald Ford (the president when I began my 27-year career with the Anti-Defamation League in 1975) to Barack Obama, there was a unifying reality that bound liberal and conservative Jews together when assessing the…
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Community Why Were Some LA Jewish Organizations Silent During Trump’s Immigration Crisis?
The immediate crisis involving the separation of children from their parents at our Southern border seems to be receding. On June 26, a federal judge in California ordered that the policy of family separation be discontinued and that all separated families must be reunited. What will not recede as quickly is the memory of how…
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