American Jewish Committee

Las Vegas, Nevada, Tops List Of Growing American Jewish Communities
09 Oct 98 | Las Vegas, Nevada, topped the list of growing U.S. Jewish communities, followed by Monmouth County, New Jersey, according to figures reported in the 1998 edition of the American Jewish Year Book, just published by the American Jewish Committee. ...

AJC Report Regrets U.N. Member States Are Deaf To Annan's Call For New Era In Treatment Of Israel
08 Oct 98 | Although U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has publicly recognized the history of discriminatory treatment by U.N. member states toward Israel, members have failed to heed his call for "a new era of relations between Israel and the United Nations....

Germany Supports Israel's Acceptance Into Regional Group At The United Nations
24 Sep 98 | At a meeting yesterday with American Jewish Committee leaders, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel informed the group that Germany supports Israel's inclusion in the West European and Others Group (WEOG) at the United Nations. That leaves WEOG, ...

AJC Steps Up Its Campaign To End Discrimination Against Israel In United Nations System
17 Sep 98 | Nearly five decades after becoming a UN member, Israel is still not eligible to sit on the Security Council and other key UN bodies. It also lists "countries not eligible to sit on the United Nations Security Council" - Israel alone.

AJC Joins In Amicus Brief To Overturn Ruling Of District Court On Issue Of Family And Medical Leave Act
17 Sep 98 | The American Jewish Committee has joined in an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in support of a woman denied protection under the Family Medical Leave Act. The district court ruled that in adopting FMLA, Congress ...

American Jewish Committee National Initiative Celebrates New Americans On Citizenship Day
14 Sep 98 | American Jewish Committee chapters across the country will celebrate national Citizenship Day, which falls on September 17, by co-sponsoring local ceremonies that will swear-in thousands of new American citizens. The events have received generous...

American Jewish Committee Appalled By Racist Float At Labor Day Parade
11 Sep 98 | "The American Jewish Committee is appalled by the racist float in the Board Channel Labor Day parade, and distressed by reports that two city firefighters and two city policy officers participated. We applaud the Mayor for his immediate and ...

Jewish Identities In Post Rabin Israel
30 Jul 98 | Mr. Klein Halevi's essay details all aspects of Israel's continuing Jewish identity struggle including the "Ultra-Orthodox Separatism: The Rise of Shas," "Secular Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis," "The Jewish Struggle Within The Secular Elite," "...

AJC Decries The Defacement Of Buchenwald Memorial Monument
30 Jul 98 | The American Jewish Committee condemns the desecration of the memorial monument at the Buchenwald concentration camp this past weekend and calls upon the German authorities to take additional measures to seek an end to such attacks on former ...

Still No Justice: Four Years After The Bombing Of Argentina's Jewish Community Headquarters
17 Jul 98 | On the fourth anniversary of the bombing of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Aid Association (AMIA) Jewish community headquarters building in Buenos Aires, a new American Jewish Committee investigative report asserts: "The AMIA bombing investigation...

AJC Welcomes U.S. Action Against Russian Companies Doing Military-Related Business With Iran
16 Jul 98 | The Iranian missile threat is real; our response must be commensurate to the threat. Western Policy Options Toward Iran," "Chinese Arms and Technology Transfers to Iran: Implications for the United States, Israel, and the Middle East," "Silkworms ...

The General Assembly Is Again Being Used As A Tool Against The State Of Israel
07 Jul 98 | The American Jewish Committee is deeply troubled over today's General Assembly vote to upgrade the Palestinians' status within the United Nations from observer to that approaching the position of a member state. In an attempt to protect the ...

American Jewish Committee Appoints New National Legal Director
01 Jul 98 | Jeffrey Sinensky has been appointed National Legal Director and Corporate Counsel of the American Jewish Committee, taking over the AJC post held for more than thirty years by Samuel Rabinove. From 1976 until 1996, Mr. Sinensky served as Director ...

American Jewish Committee Dedicates Martin Gang Law Library And Conference Room
29 Jun 98 | The American Jewish Committee today dedicated a new law library and conference room at its Manhattan headquarters, named in memory of Martin Gang, a prominent attorney and longtime and devoted AJC leader. The Martin Gang Law Library and Conference...

American Jewish Committee Dedicates Antiquities Collection
29 Jun 98 | The American Jewish Committee today unveiled and dedicated a collection of Israel-related antiquities, donated to AJC as the agency's Manhattan headquarters continues to undergo a major facelift. Among the items on display are a Cypriot Terracotta...

AJC Board Of Governors Adopts Policy Statement On Arab-Israeli Peace Process
29 Jun 98 | The American Jewish Committee, in a policy statement on the Arab - Israeli peace process adopted today by its Board of Governors, expressed grave concern about the current impasse and reaffirmed its support for an active American role in the ...

American Jewish Committee Endorses Silk Road Strategy Act
24 Jun 98 | The American Jewish Committee has commended the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for its approval of the Silk Road Strategy Act of 1998, legislation that would strengthen U.S. ties to the strategically vital Caucasus and Central Asia. AJC ...

AJC Outraged And Revolted By The Apparently Racially-Motivated Murder Of James Byrd Jr.
10 Jun 98 | "The American Jewish Committee is outraged and revolted by the horrific murder of James Byrd Jr., possibly by KKK supporters. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, and stand in grief and solidarity with the African-American community ...

The American Jewish Committee Hails the Defeat of the 'Religious Freedom' Amendment
04 Jun 98 | "The American Jewish Committee hails the defeat of the so-called 'Religious Freedom' Amendment by a vote of 224 for, 203 against -- well short of the two-thirds vote necessary for it to go forward. "The 'Religious Freedom' Amendment, rather then ...

The Role Of Neutrals During The Holocaust, And The Survival Of Jewish Communties In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union
04 Jun 98 | In testimony today before the U.S. House Committee on Banking and Financial Services on "Neutrality and the Holocaust," an American Jewish Committee leader spoke of the miracle not only of individual Jewish survivors of the Holocaust but of the ...