Group applied for jobs using Jewish names, prior employers - what they found was troubling

A troubling study by the Anti-Defamation League found Jewish applicants and those with Jewish-linked prior employers faced significant discrimination, needing to send far more applications to receive responses.

The ADL's experiment revealed a 3.4% lower response rate for Jewish Americans and a 4.9% lower rate for Israeli-Americans, indicating serious discrimination in the job market.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt emphasized the findings as "groundbreaking evidence of serious antisemitic discrimination" and called for employers to address anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli prejudice seriously.

The study highlighted how subtle religious discrimination can be more difficult to prove, with applications revealing that Jewish identifiers materially impacted employers' responses.

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