ADL Heroes Against Hate to Be Honored At Kennedy Center

ADL Heroes Against Hate to Be Honored At Kennedy Center

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WHO: Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Kennedy Center

WHAT: ADL Concert Against Hate with the National Symphony Orchestra

WHERE: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

WHEN: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 8:30 P.M.

Three heroes in the fight against hate and intolerance will be honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) during the 14th annual ADL Concert Against Hate at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Monday, November 17. The Ina Kay Awards will be presented during a concert narrated and hosted by members of the cast of the award-winning AMC television series, Mad Men. The concert will be performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Emil De Cou. The awards recognize individuals for extraordinary acts of courage in confronting intolerance and injustice, extremism and terrorism. Honorees this year include:

-- Sergeant Major Ronit Tubol: Sergeant Major Tubol, of the Israel
Police, survived a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus that killed 19
people. Following four months in hospitals, she underwent a year of
rehabilitation to re-learn how to walk, talk and write, return to work
and continue her life as a mother and wife.
-- Lillian Kimura: As a child, Lillian Kimura was incarcerated in
Manzanar, one of 120,000 people of Japanese descent imprisoned by the
American government after the outbreak of World War II. Thirty years
later, Lillian Kimura emerged as a leader in efforts to get the United
States government to rectify the injustice done to Japanese-Americans.
-- The Honorable Melissa Powers: As an assistant prosecutor in Hamilton
County, Ohio, Judge Powers secured a confession that closed a
seventeen year-old case involving the sniper-killings of two Black
teenagers. To do so, she had to go alone into a prison cell with one
of the nation's most vicious extremists -- a racist serial killer
linked to twenty murders.

Over 25,000 people have been impacted by hearing these stories since the inception of this event in 1995. More information on the ADL Concert Against Hate and past award recipients is available online at http://www.adlconcert.org/.

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Nov. 14/

Source: Anti-Defamation League

CONTACT: David Friedman of Anti-Defamation League, +1-202-452-8310,
adlmedia@adl.org

Web Site: http://www.adl.org/

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