From the Frontlines : New ADL Data Alert! The Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast which brings listeners to the frontline in the battle against antisemitism, hate and extremism through conversations with ADL staff who are living that battle every day. Three people were murdered in antisemitic attacks in 2025. The first Jewish fatalities from antisemitism on American soil since 2019. At the same time, ADL's just released annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents shows that the total number of antisemitic incidents in America fell by a third compared to 2024. How do you reconcile those two things? How do you tell a community that some indicators improved when people are being murdered? When physical assaults reached a record high? When American Jews were still targeted an average of 17 times a day? ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt put it plainly: numbers that would have shocked us five years ago are now our floor. That is the question at the heart of this year's Audit and the subject of this podcast, featuring Rachel Sass, ADL Senior Antisemitic Incident Specialist. Rachel is part of ADL's Center on Extremism, and she is one of the people doing the hard, sometimes heartbreaking work of reviewing and documenting antisemitic incidents across the country, incident by incident, every single day. She has become one of ADL's most important voices in helping the public understand what these numbers actually mean. To access the full audit, just go to https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2025. To access ADL's HEAT Map, visit https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map. This conversation was recorded in May 2026.