Arnold Forster

Arnold Forster (1912–2010) was a prominent Anti-Defamation League attorney.

Personal life Forster was born on June 25, 1912, in Brooklyn as Arnold Fastenberg. Forster attended college and law school at St. John's University. At law school, Forster participated in a local play at the Provincetown Playhouse, and the director suggested he change his name to Forster from its original Fastenberg. He maintained an office at the ADL at least as late as 1988. In 1961, Forster released Dateline Israel, a series of radio reports that covered the 1960 capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the subsequent trial in Israel. At the time, the ADL was concerned that the nature of Eichmann's abduction and the nature of his trial might lead to condemnations of Israel. Forster publish his memoir Square One in 1988. New York Times journalist Marcy Oster described the book as "weak on explaining the reasons for the continued existence of anti-Semitism" but "an earnest chronicle of the useful life of a dedicated man".