Justice & Accountability: ADL Takes the Fight Against Antisemitism to the Courtroom

Ms. Wolf recently joined the National Litigation team of the Anti-Defamation League where she represents victims of antisemitism in legal actions nationwide against universities, K-12 schools, and private businesses.

For most of her career, she proudly served as a federal prosecutor, and Criminal Chief, in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where she prosecuted public corruption, economic fraud, and civil rights hate crimes. She was the lead counsel in over 25 federal jury trials, spearheaded numerous Title III wiretap investigations, and argued multiple cases before the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She received the Attorney General’s Award for her prosecution of a pharmaceutical company for off-label marketing.

Ms. Wolf also served as Inspector General at SEPTA, a public transportation agency in southeastern Pennsylvania.  As Inspector General, she led a team of investigators, detectives, auditors and former prosecutors in rooting out fraud, waste and abuse.

She was a law clerk to the late Honorable Lowell A. Reed, United States District Judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  Ms. Wolf is a summa cum laude graduate of the Washington College of Law at The American University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. She is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was in the Sphinx Senior Leadership Society and was awarded the Trustees’ Leadership Award.

She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Temple University where she teaches a white collar crime course to undergraduates in the Legal Studies Department.

Ms. Wolf was President of her synagogue in Philadelphia (Mt. Airy), Pennsylvania, a congregation of over 500 families. In 2024, she launched a non-profit called Chaverim118.  Chaverim118 is a growing group which comes together socially, to share their commitment to Israel as the homeland for the Jewish people, and to raise money for Jewish and Israeli organizations.

Years ago, during the first Intifada, Denise lived in Nablus (Shechem) where she worked for the British Council teaching English to Palestinians.  She also lived in Tira, an Arab village in Israel, where she taught English to young Arab Israelis.  She spent one summer working at Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim in Haifa.

She and her husband live in Philadelphia where they raised their three sons.

Aryeh is a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC, where he has practiced for the past 26 years.  As part of his robust litigation and counseling practice across a variety of practice areas, including hospitality, higher education, sovereign litigation, and general commercial litigation, Aryeh co-chairs the firm’s Terrorism Litigation Practice.  For more than two decades, Aryeh has represented (and continues to represent) hundreds of victims of state-sponsored terrorism and their families in litigation and post-litigation efforts to obtain both recognition and compensation for their injuries and losses in attacks spanning over 40 years.  Aryeh’s team currently represents nearly 200 victims of the October 7 Hamas Attack on Israel (including 85 victims, survivors, and families from the Nova music festival) in litigation in U.S. federal district court in the District of Columbia.  For the October 7 litigation, Aryeh’s team has partnered with the ADL as co-counsel and is working closely with the Barak Malkit Law Office in Israel.

Zach is a Reform Jew living in The Deep South, and has been involved at his current synagogue for over a decade and active in the recycling industry for the past 25 years.

As current Board President of Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, he recently has been thrust into the role of helping to guide the congregation as they recover from an antisemitic arson attack in early January 2026. In this capacity, Zach has spoken at a growing number of engagements about antisemitism and his experience growing up Jewish in South Mississippi.

As a fourth generation member of his family making a living in the scrap metal industry, Zach is the Vice President of Jackson Iron & Metal and a tireless advocate for all-things-recycling. He currently serves as the VP of the Gulf Coast Chapter of The Recycled Materials Association, Treasurer of the Mississippi Recycling Association, and is also involved with The Recycling Society a nonprofit dedicated to teaching children about the importance of recycling and sustainability.

Zach has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from The University of Southern Mississippi, and is a tireless advocate of education whether it be for recycling efforts or fighting antisemitism and hate in general. Zach and his wife Jen have four children between the ages of 5 and 11.

Rachel Grinspan is ADL’s Associate General Counsel. As part of the national litigation team, she focuses on using the law to hold people and entities accountable for engaging in antisemitism, extremism, or hate, as well as helping to provide justice for individuals who have been targeted by hate. She also served as Associate Regional Director of the NY/NJ Regional Office and Director of Law Enforcement Policy & Civil Rights for ADL’s national law enforcement team. Prior to joining ADL, Rachel worked as an Agency Attorney for the NYPD and an Assistant District Attorney in the Special Victims Bureau at the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. She holds a B.A. from Syracuse University and a Juris Doctor from Touro Law School.