Mini-gloat: Our website consistently outranks the (annual budget: $60m) ADL website on the World Wide Web 

Website note: Abraham Foxman, wealthy and controversial chief of the Anti Defamation League, likes to refer to himself as a “Holocaust survivor.” As a biography on this website shows, he was not even born when Hitler invaded his native Poland, and he was looked after by Polish Catholics throughout the war; his parents also “survived”. Author, “Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism,” foreword by Elie Wiesel ($24.95, 304 pages).

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Sen. John Kerry to Address ADL National Conference in Washington, D.C.

WHO: Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

WHAT: Annual ADL National Leadership Conference

WHERE: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

WHEN: Sunday, May 2 – Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Monday, May 3

12:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom — U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,Editor’s Note: Camera Set-Up 11 a.m.

The following events at ADL’s meeting will be open to the media:

Sunday, May 2

7 p.m., Grand Ballroom — Iraq, Al Qaeda and the Future of the War on Terrorism, Jeffrey Goldberg, Staff Writer and Middle East Correspondent, The New Yorker

Monday, May 3 (Grand Ballroom)

Israel’s Disengagement Plan: Will It Work?

8 a.m., Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. 8:30 a.m., William J. Burns, Assistant Secretary of State 9 a.m., David Makovsky, director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process/Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

10:30 a.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

CHINESE ROOM: Democracy in the Arab World: Will A Liberated Iraq Change the Landscape?— Alina L. Romanowski, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, — Geoffrey Kemp, Director, Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center — Amy Hawthorne, Middle East specialist, Carnegie Endowment

10:30 a.m. STATE BALLROOM:

The Fallout From Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”

— Dr. Philip A. Cunningham, Executive Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Boston College — I. Robert Wolfson, ADL Plains States Regional Director — Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, ADL Director of Interfaith Affairs

12:15 p.m. GRAND BALLROOM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: — U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.Editor’s Note: Camera Set-Up 11 a.m.

1 p.m. — Luncheon with Representatives of the Diplomatic Corps GRAND BALLROOM

Europe Uniting Against Anti-Semitism: The OSCE Meeting in Berlin

— Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and Public Advisor to the U.S. Delegation, OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism — Senator Marcello Pera, President, Italian Senate

3 p.m. — A View From Washington Insiders STATE BALLROOM

— Gerald Seib, Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal — Andrew Kohut, Director, The Pew Center for the People and the Press — Alexis Simendinger, White House Correspondent, The National Journal

7 p.m. — The Fight Against Global Terrorism GRAND BALLROOM

— Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Vice President for External Affairs, RAND Corp.

Tuesday, May 4

8 a.m. — Perspectives from the 108th Congress GRAND BALLROOM

— Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.Editor’s Note: Camera Set-Up at 7:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m. — Brown vs. Board of Ed at 50: The Civil Rights Struggle Then & Now

GRAND BALLROOM

— Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.

NOTE: Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, and other ADL experts will be available for interviews by appointment. Contact ADL’s Media Relations Dept. at 212-885-7749 or adlmedia@adl.org. http://www.usnewswire.com/ -0- /© 2004 U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ © 2004 U.S. Newswire

 David Irving: Radical’s Diary: Not to be outdone, Senator Kerry reveals today that the name of one of his two Jewish grandfathers was Fritz Kohn. Well that certainly would give both of them my vote if I were an American