In response to the rise of antisemitic violence and hate crime incidents, The Lesniak Institute for American Leadership hosted a Antisemitism Forum with the Kean University Holocaust Resource Center. At the Forum, leaders from the community discussed the need for action against antisemitic violence, took the Stand Up For The Other pledge, and became liaisons of the pledge, spreading it to the organizations they represent.

Our panelist members: AG Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of the State of New Jersey; Jared M. Maples, Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness; Senator Linda Greenstein, NJ State Senator of District 14; Ali Chaudry, Ph.D., Co-founder of the Statewide New Jersey Interfaith Coalition; Dawood Farahi, Ph.D., President of Kean University; Adara Goldberg, Ph.D., Director of The Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University; Joshua Cohen, Director of Government Relations and External Affairs of the Jewish Federations of New Jersey; Steven Goldstein, Former Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect and Former Executive Director of Garden State Equality; Mary Sok, Former President of the Diversity Council on Global Education and Citizenship and Present-day Watchung Hills teacher; Randy Bergmann, Coordinator (Toms River/Lakewood) for Project Unity; Rabbi Robert Green, Rabbi of the Congregation Sons of Israel; and Alisha DeLorenzo, Interim Deputy Director of Garden State Equality