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I Bet Your [sic] Scared Just To Walk Out Of The House: American and Israeli Kids Exchange Letters
01 May 02 | Hundreds of students in Manhattan's Park Avenue Synagogue Hebrew School marked Israel's recent 54th birthday writing letters of support and friendship to their peers in Israel. The AJC is also forwarding letters from students at Stuyvesant High ...

AJC Urges Appeals Court to Back Synagogue Zoning Fight
26 Apr 02 | The American Jewish Committee today joined in an amicus brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Abington Township v. Congregation Kol Ami, which involves a challenge to the ...

American Presidents Speak: What Israel Means to Me
24 Apr 02 | In a full-page ad in today's New York Times the American Jewish Committee clearly spells out the history of unwavering American presidential support for the state of Israel. The ad traces presidential support for Israel by every president since ...

Six European States Vote for Palestinian Terrorism
15 Apr 02 | UN Watch today criticized European states for voting at the UN Commission on Human Rights for a one-sided resolution against Israel that includes a thinly veiled endorsement of Palestinian terror attacks. An abstention suggests ambivalence toward...

WE REMEMBER!
09 Apr 02 | In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). We remember the six million Jewish martyrs, including 1.5 million children, who were exterminated in the Holocaust.

UN Watch Decries Discriminatory Treatment of Israel at UN Commission on Human Rights Session
02 Apr 02 | UN Watch Executive Director Andrew Srulevitch today sharply criticized the UN Commission on Human Rights for blatant discrimination against Israel. "The American Jewish Committee condemns the flagrant bias against Israel created by this separate ...

American Jewish Committee Conference Gathers Central, Eastern European Jewish Leaders at NATO Summit
25 Mar 02 | The Jewish presentations are available at www.ajc.org in the "AJC Status Report: Anti-Semitism, Property Restitution and Related Issues Confronting the Jewish Communities of Central and Eastern Europe." Rabbi Andrew Baker, AJC's Director of ...

Prime Minister Sharon Praises AJC
20 Mar 02 | Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon praised the American Jewish Committee for its tireless efforts on behalf of Israel and Jewish communities around the world. The AJC delegation, led by AJC President Harold Tanner, met with Foreign Minster ...

AJC Executive Committee Arrives in Israel
17 Mar 02 | A top American Jewish Committee delegation arrived in Jerusalem over the weekend for the annual AJC Executive Committee visit to Israel. The delegation, led by AJC President Harold Tanner and Executive Director David A. Harris, will discuss with ...

American Jewish Committee Report Says Iran Pushing Middle East Into War
14 Mar 02 | An American Jewish Committee report examining Iranian-Palestinian relations warns that the Islamic Republic "is unapologetically committed to terrorism" and that the alliance between Yasser Arafat and the Tehran regime is a "wake up call" of ...

AJC Delivers Firm Messages to Mubarak
05 Mar 02 | AJC President Harold Tanner urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to return Egypt's ambassador to Israel, to take concrete steps to eliminate anti-Semitic articles and cartoons in the Egyptian government-controlled media, and to end Egypt's ...

American Jewish Committee Praises Israeli Government Solution for Mosque in Nazareth
04 Mar 02 | The American Jewish Committee is praising the Israeli Cabinet's endorsement of an Israeli government commission's recommendations for resolving the controversy over a proposed mosque in Nazareth. "Out of our deep concern for the strength of ...

American Jewish Committee, in New York Times Ad, Highlights Hate Education in Arab, Muslim Countries
03 Mar 02 | In an advertisement on the op-ed page of today's New York Times, the American Jewish Committee highlights the teaching of pure hatred of Jews and Christians - and of the United States - in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and the Palestinian ...

American Jewish Committee, Saint Leo University To Honor Military Chaplaincy at Catholic-Jewish Conference
01 Mar 02 | The Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, a collaboration of the American Jewish Committee and Saint Leo University, will honor all U.S. military chaplains during the Center's fifth annual conference. The AJC-Saint Leo conference, "Divergence and ...

AJC Report Documents Arab Campaign to Destroy Israel
27 Feb 02 | In a report issued this week, the American Jewish Committee documents hate speech and threats against Israel, Jews and the West sounded across the Arab world, even during peace negotiations. According to the AJC report, even as Israelis and ...

American Jewish Committee Appalled By Gruesome Murder of U.S. Reporter
22 Feb 02 | The American Jewish Committee today expressed profound grief over the confirmed murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in Pakistan on January 23 by radical Islamic terrorists and then brutally murdered. "Our hearts...

American Jewish Committee Praises Court Decision Revoking Demjanjuk's Citizenship
21 Feb 02 | The American Jewish Committee today applauded the federal court decision revoking the U.S. citizenship of John Demjanjuk. The AJC praised government officials, in particular the staff at OSI, for pursuing over many years the case against Demjanjuk...

American Jewish Committee Donates $50,000 to United Nations to Aid Afghan Refugees
18 Feb 02 | American Jewish Committee Executive Director David A. Harris today presented a $50,000 contribution to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, for the agency's relief programs in Afghanistan. Joining Mr. Harris at the meeting with ...

Raoul Wallenberg: No End to the Mystery
13 Feb 02 | The American Jewish Committee today released its second report on the shadowy fate of Raoul Wallenberg, who saved as many as 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. There are in fact five reports because, writes Dr. Korey, "after ten years of ...

AJC Report Says Hamas Poses Same Threats as Al-Qa'ida
07 Feb 02 | A new report on Hamas by the American Jewish Committee shows the ultimate goal of the Palestinian terrorist organization is to destroy Israel and replace it with a radical Islamic state. The report notes that Hamas still enjoys support among the ...