Kelly Fishman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in Cleveland, stressed that the organization’s newly launched Jewish Policy Index – an online interactive tool introduced Aug. 8

to measure how each of the 50 states address antisemitism – is not meant to be a competition.

In an interview with the Cleveland Jewish News, Fishman said the index, instead provides a snapshot on what an individual state has done thus far and what more could be accomplished to help support not only Jewish people, but other groups as well.

“The thought process was that if we could come up with an index to really provide context for how things were working in different states, it would give legislators and lawmakers a real opportunity to see that,” Fishman, whose region includes Ohio, Kentucky, We

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