Our Story

In 2023, Adrian Erlikhman, Ryan Erlikhman, and Yonatan Zarur watched antisemitism climb in their schools, their neighborhoods, and their feeds. Swastikas on lockers. Slurs in hallways. Flyers on the ground. The kind of thing that gets reported once to an administrator and then disappears.

What bothered them was not only that it was happening. It was that no one could see it clearly. The ADL published an annual audit. The FBI published hate-crime statistics. The LAPD published reports. None of it lived in one place, none of it was mapped, and none of it was current enough to act on. One question kept coming back: where is the real, mappable, searchable data, not a press release six months late?

So they built it. The first version was scrappy. The team taught themselves what they needed as they went. They pulled public incident data from the ADL, FBI reports, and LAPD hate-crime logs, wrote a community reporting form, and stitched it all into one interactive map.

It worked. People could finally see where antisemitic incidents had been reported across Greater Los Angeles, filter by category and date, and add their own. For a lot of people, it was the first time the pattern was laid out clearly on a map.

Version 1 had real limits, and they taught us a lot. The phone experience was rough, and most people report from their phones. The analytics were thin, so the map showed incidents but not where they were clustering or trending. There was no campus layer, which became a glaring gap as campus antisemitism intensified through 2023 and 2024. At one point the domain even lapsed during college-application season, a blunt lesson in what it takes to run something people rely on.

Those failures made it obvious what Version 2 had to be.

Version 2 is built from scratch: new code, new design, new data. A cleaner, faster map. Mobile-first reporting. A real campus tool. Analytics that tell a story instead of listing rows. Data that refreshes on its own, so the site keeps up instead of falling months behind.

The goal is the same as it was on day one. Put reliable, current safety data in the hands of Jewish communities, at the neighborhood and campus level where decisions actually get made. And build it to grow past Los Angeles, because antisemitism is not only a local problem.