Major Donor Leaves ADL

Something is afoot: Citing the recent New York Post exposé of failing Jewish leaders, major donor pulls contributions, hoping new leadership, better able to defend and protect the community, will emerge

In a brave and heartfelt article in the New York Post, former ADL donor Rachel Sapoznik announces that “I’ll be ending my donations to these [establishment] groups and pushing for a new Jewish regime to emerge that I can support.”

Sapoznik pointed to Katheryn Wolf’s exposé, published just three days prior, quoting Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser of the Jewish Leadership Project, as well as Alan Dershowitz, Mort Klein, and Shabbos Kestenbaum. All of whom explained how the Jewish establishment not only failed to defend Jews, but, in Jacobs’ words, “disarmed their own community, blinding us to the most lethal threats.”

The Jewish Leadership Project was founded in 2022 to inform and explain to the community how those we thought were defending us were instead defending the very leftist ideology that now has us in a dark corner.

Our book, Betrayal, collected essays by major thinkers and on-the-ground activists documenting and analyzing this tragic failure. The book’s message may be having an effect on donors, who, like us, are seeking new, brave leaders. 

“A new Jewish movement is coming,” Sapoznik writes. “It will be unflinching, unapologetic and finally willing to do what others have failed to do: protect our people. I, for one, am ready to stand up. And I know I’m not alone.”

We know she is not. Bravo, Rachel.