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Catherine D'Amato , president of the Greater Boston Food Bank, was honored yesterday as the Anti-Defamation League's Woman of Valor. D'Amato was feted by ADL New England's Derrek Shulman and past honorees, including Attorney General Martha Coakley , John Hancock's Carol Fulp , Esta Gordon Esptein , wife of Celtics co-owner Bob Epstein , and Boston's first lady, Angela Menino , who was joined at the event at the...

More than 500 people gathered at Faneuil Hall last night to hear a panel of community and civic leaders discuss recent trends in anti-Semitism and a poll showing its rise over the past two years . An ADL-commissioned poll released last week showed a 3 percent rise in anti-Semitism in the United States since 2009. The poll numbers indicated that 15 percent of Americans hold deeply anti-Semitic views. "Anti-Semitism still exists. It's threatening. It's global," Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director and a Holocaust survivor, said in an interview after the event.

Judy Shepard , whose son Matthew ’s murder prompted Congress to pass a federal hate crime law, spent a few emotional days in Boston. Shepard was brought to town by the Anti-Defamation League New England to meet with Governor Deval Patrick and law enforcement officials about the transgender rights bill. Her audience included ADL New England board chair Michael Sheetz , US Attorney Carmen Ortiz , ADL New England head Derrek Shulman , AG Martha Coakley , and FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers .

Catherine D'Amato , president of the Greater Boston Food Bank, was honored yesterday as the Anti-Defamation League's Woman of Valor. D'Amato was feted by ADL New England's Derrek Shulman and past honorees, including Attorney General Martha Coakley , John Hancock's Carol Fulp , Esta Gordon Esptein , wife of Celtics co-owner Bob Epstein , and Boston's first lady, Angela Menino , who was joined at the event at the...

In its sneaky, cheeky way, “Defamation’’ is a mitzvah , an act of kindness. A documentary purporting to be about global anti-Semitism that instead becomes an inquiry into how the specter of “anti-Semitism’’ is used by various factions to deflect criticism of Israeli politics, the film wades airily into a cultural no-flyover zone, sits down, and says: OK, let’s talk. And talk they do: Anti-Defamation League head Abraham Foxman on one hand and Norman Finkelstein, author of “The Holocaust Industry,’’ on the other.

More than 500 people gathered at Faneuil Hall last night to hear a panel of community and civic leaders discuss recent trends in anti-Semitism and a poll showing its rise over the past two years . An ADL-commissioned poll released last week showed a 3 percent rise in anti-Semitism in the United States since 2009. The poll numbers indicated that 15 percent of Americans hold deeply anti-Semitic views. "Anti-Semitism still exists. It's threatening. It's global," Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director and a Holocaust survivor, said in an interview after the event.

MADRID - The Anti-Defamation League said yesterday that a survey it commissioned found nearly a third of Europeans polled blamed Jews for the global economic meltdown and that a greater number thought Jews have too much power in the business world. The organization, which says its aim is "to stop the defamation of Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all," says the seven-nation survey confirms that anti-Semitism remains strong. The poll, conducted between December and last month, included interviews with 3,500 people - 500 each in...

The Anti-Defamation League New England this week honored parking poobah Jeff Karp with its Torch of Liberty award at the Seaport Hotel. There to congratulate Karp, the cofounder of LAZ Parking, was last year’s recipient of the award, Davio’s owner Steve DiFillippo , as well as Channel 5 reporter Kimberly Bookman , Celtics co-owner Bob Epstein , and ADL NE regional director Derrek Shulman .

The police department in the New Hampshire city of Keene is going to be getting an armored vehicle. On Thursday the city council decided to move forward with a plan to use $250,000 in federal money to buy the vehicle called a "Bearcat. " The vehicle will be used regionally. WMUR-TV ( http://bit.ly/xtADlM) says opponents of the purchase claim it is a waste of money for a quiet corner of New Hampshire. Police say the Bearcat will be in Keene and ready for use this fall.

Police chiefs from Newton, Framingham, and Belmont headed off last weekend for a weeklong counterterrorism seminar in Israel, funded by the Anti-Defamation League. They are joining a dozen other senior law enforcement officials from the Northeast to network and get first-hand advice from Israeli security experts. Though there have been no successful terror plots carried out in Massachusetts since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to the federal government's Worldwide Incident Tracking System, officials say the trip is necessary to keep law enforcement up-to-date on...

Judy Shepard , whose son Matthew ’s murder prompted Congress to pass a federal hate crime law, spent a few emotional days in Boston. Shepard was brought to town by the Anti-Defamation League New England to meet with Governor Deval Patrick and law enforcement officials about the transgender rights bill. Her audience included ADL New England board chair Michael Sheetz , US Attorney Carmen Ortiz , ADL New England head Derrek Shulman , AG Martha Coakley , and FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers .

In its sneaky, cheeky way, “Defamation’’ is a mitzvah , an act of kindness. A documentary purporting to be about global anti-Semitism that instead becomes an inquiry into how the specter of “anti-Semitism’’ is used by various factions to deflect criticism of Israeli politics, the film wades airily into a cultural no-flyover zone, sits down, and says: OK, let’s talk. And talk they do: Anti-Defamation League head Abraham Foxman on one hand and Norman Finkelstein, author of “The Holocaust Industry,’’ on the other.

MADRID - The Anti-Defamation League said yesterday that a survey it commissioned found nearly a third of Europeans polled blamed Jews for the global economic meltdown and that a greater number thought Jews have too much power in the business world. The organization, which says its aim is "to stop the defamation of Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all," says the seven-nation survey confirms that anti-Semitism remains strong. The poll, conducted between December and last month, included interviews with 3,500 people - 500 each in Austria,...

On Sept. 12, 1960, John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate for president, stood before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, and delivered a speech defending himself from skepticism over his Catholic faith. With soaring rhetoric, Kennedy outlined a vision of America in which no church would impose its will on government, and no president would face a religious test for office. "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," he said.

CAIRO — Egypt’s prosecutor general yesterday ordered former president Hosni Mubarak to be moved from his hospital in a Red Sea resort town to a military facility. Mubarak was originally supposed to be moved to Cairo’s Tora prison hospital, but it was deemed not yet ready to receive him, said a spokesman for Prosecutor General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud. Instead the former president will stay in a military hospital until the prison facility is ready, said spokesman Adel Said in a statement posted on the prosecutor’s Facebook page.