The workshops are made available to all Jewish education venues, including synagogue-based Hebrew schools and Sunday and day schools, Jewish youth groups, and camps. With its National Headquarters in New York City, ADL has a network of regional and satellite offices throughout America and in Jerusalem and Vienna. Tragically, children are often the first to reap the consequences of what we as a society have sown. They learn to hate before they are old enough to comprehend why. Parents and caregivers must teach their children not only to accept but to celebrate diversity.
Intolerance is learned.
Therefore it can be unlearned. ADL believes that through reading and discussion, children and their parents can better understand the richness and beauty of American's multicultural society. The book, Hate Hurts, is an important step in this direction. There is no place where hate crimes are occurring with more increasing frequency, and more visibility and hostility than in institutions of higher education. In the course of their casework, CRS searched the nation for expertise on the fallout from these incidents, and finding very few resources, decided that it would be beneficial to create a guide for systematic response to these terrible, hateful acts.