Goldman Foundation Grant Launches AJC Fellows ProgramAmerican Jewish Committee The American Jewish Committee has received a two-year grant of $236,000 from the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation to establish the AJC Fellows Program. The AJC Fellows Program is a highly competitive program aimed at developing future leaders, committed to Jewish activism, in the areas of politics, management, public relations, business and diplomacy. The program is open to undergraduate students in their junior or senior years as well as students in graduate and professional schools.  The first 11 fellows, selected from over 150 applicants for the fellowship, have been working in AJC offices across the United States and in Berlin, Geneva, and Melbourne, Australia. They are Jessica Adler, Matthew Baskir, Max Coslov, Jenna Hoffman, Gregory Kramer, Matthew Lipinsky, Tatyana Margolin, Evan Michelson, Leon Saltiel, Sabra Thorner and Haim Zaltzman. "This program is a unique opportunity," said Leon Saltiel, of Thessaloniki, Greece, who is earning a master's degree at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and spent the summer working on international issues at AJC's Washington Office. The fellows have conducted research over the summer, helped organize high-level diplomatic meetings, and written articles and monographs, significantly forwarding the work of AJC and the Jewish community worldwide. One of the fellows, Jessica Adler, who graduated from the University of Rochester in May, is joining AJC on a permanent basis after the completing the fellows program. She has been hired to work in the Public Relations Department at AJC Headquarters in New York.
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