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...RITH (Sons of the Covenant). Founded in New York City in 1843, it is an international service organization with more than 500,000 members attached to lodges and chapters in 40 nations. Its $13 million budget is used for the cultural, recreation and social needs of its members...
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL). An arm of B'nai B'rith, it was founded in 1913 to fight antiSemitism, mainly through continual monitoring and publicizing of evidence suggesting such sentiment. With a budget of $7.4 million and a staff of 300 people, it issues periodic public reports on trends in prejudice against Jews and tries to counteract such trends through community projects and legal action...
...earlier, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith accused a number of private companies and U.S. agencies of discriminating against Jews, and also provided part of an Arab boycott list that extended beyond the banking community into the ranks of American business. And only a few hours after the President's Florida press conference, Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, produced a copy of the entire blacklist...
...Forster is associate director and general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B 'nai B 'rith...
DeFunis and his lawyers from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith took their case to the United States Supreme Court. A stay granted by Justice William O. Douglas had kept DeFunis in law school after the state supreme court's reversal, and the Supreme Court then decided to hear the case beginning on February...