AJC, Tunisian Jewish Community Establish Cooperative Association

American Jewish Committee
Monday, 4 June 2001

The American Jewish Committee and the Communaute Juive de Tunisie have established a cooperative association to advance the interests of the Tunisian and American Jewish communities. Both organizations will retain full autonomy while collaborating on critical Jewish communal and international policy issues.

This is the seventh international agreement of association AJC has forged in recent years, and the first with a Jewish community in an Arab country.

The Communaute Juive de Tunisie (CJT) is the representative voice for Jewish communities in Tunisia.

The AJC-CJT association is intended to enable the routine exchange of research, analysis, archival data and other materials, and the association may include joint publications, conferences, exchange programs and fact-finding missions to third countries.

The agreement was signed during AJC's Annual Meeting. CJT President Roger Bismuth, of Tunis, was among the Jewish leaders from more than 40 countries attending the recent AJC conference in Washington.

AJC's other international links are with the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), the Mexico-based Tribuna Israelita (TI), the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Centro Israelita Sionista de Costa Rica, and the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in the Slovak Republic.

For more information, or to contact American Jewish Committee, see their website at: www.ajc.org