American Jewish Committee

American Jewish Committee Lauds U.S. Government Report On Neutral Nations' Trade With Nazis
02 Jun 98 | The American Jewish Committee lauds the U.S. Government report released today on the trade relationship of neutral nations with the Nazis during and after World War II, the use of looted gold, and the acceptance of refugees. We urge those nations...

AJC Welcomes Statement By Greek Orthodox Old Calendarist Church Repudiating Anti-Semitism
26 May 98 | The American Jewish Committee welcomes the recent statement by leaders of the Greek Orthodox Stavropegial Church and Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou which expresses regret for the use of anti-Semitic remarks and stereotypes in its Church ...

Report Highlights Continued Russian Assistance To Iran's Weapons Program
21 May 98 | "Current American policy has failed to alter Russian attitudes toward nuclear cooperation with Iran," says Dr. Scott Parrish, a postdoctoral research fellow at Monterey's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and author of the just-released ...

AJC Pays Tribute To Costa Rica And Uruguay At 92nd Annual Meeting
20 May 98 | Accepting the honor on behalf of their countries were Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, immediate past President of Costa Rica, and Julio Maria Sanguinetti, President of Uruguay. Don Pepe, he said, served three terms as President and developed a close ...

AJC Condemns Bombing Of Moscow Synagogue
15 May 98 | The American Jewish Committee condemns the bombing of Moscow's Lubavitch synagogue earlier this week. AJC considers the attack on Moscow's Lubavitch synagogue, Marina Roscha, to be a troubling anti-Semitic act and we are deeply concerned by the ...

Vatican Leader Speaks On - We Remember: A Reflection On The Holocaust
15 May 98 | The Cardinal, whose Commission issued the document, We Remember: A Reflection On The Shoah, made his remarks today before hundreds of leaders of the American Jewish Committee, gathered in Washington for the organization's 92nd Annual Meeting. ...

AJC Presents Its National Mass Media Award To Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor-In-Chief Of US News & World Report
15 May 98 | The American Jewish Committee today presented its National Mass Media Award to Mortimer Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report and co-publisher of the New York Daily News, for "his editorials, which have significantly advanced the ...

American Jewish Committee Presents Its Akiba Award To Leslie Wexner, CEO Of The Limited
15 May 98 | In particular, Mr. Wexner is being honored for his philanthropic leadership in establishing the Wexner Foundation and the Wexner Heritage Foundation to enhance the quality of Jewish life and peoplehood. In 1985, Mr. Wexner established the Wexner ...

The Diaspora 50 Years After Israel's Establishment
15 May 98 | Two representatives of world Jewish communities urged all Jews, in Israel and the Diaspora, to celebrate diversity and pluralism and work to prevent further rifts within the Jewish community. Most of the secular Jews in Israel do not distinguish ...

AJC Works With Estonian, Latvian And Lithuanian Governments To Establish Commissions To Investigate The Holocaust And Post-War Periods
14 May 98 | The Presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, at a special joint news conference held after consultation with American Jewish Committee leaders, announced the formation of individual commissions to investigate the Holocaust and the post-war ...

American Jewish Committee Examines Ways To Combat Hate On The Internet
14 May 98 | Hate has no place in AOL's communities and we will take strong action against hate speech on our system." Mr. Wassmuth also praised the new internet site CUAH.org (Coloradans United Against Hatred), created in part with a significant grant from ...

AJC Panel Examines Strategies For Jewish Continuity
14 May 98 | In the last fifty years," he said, "the American Jewish community has focused instead on 'civil Judaism,' activities conducted mostly in public in secular Jewish organizations." Turning specifically to the issue of Jewish education, Mr. Abrams ...

The Role Of Universities In Transmitting Values Examined At American Jewish Committee Session
13 May 98 | City University of New York Interim Chancellor Dr. Christoph M. Kimmich, Connecticut College President Dr. Claire L. Gaudiani and George Washington University President Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg offered the AJC delegation their perspectives on...

AJC Leaders Attend Special Ceremony As Immigrants Take Their Oaths And Become American Citizens
13 May 98 | Dozens of America's newest citizens took their Oath of Allegiance today on Capitol Hill before members of Congress and hundreds of American Jewish Committee delegates at a very special and emotional naturalization ceremony. The program, organized...

American Jewish Committee Surprised And Concerned By Hillary Clinton's Comments On A Palestinian State
07 May 98 | "I am surprised and concerned by the comments First Lady Hillary Clinton made in support of a Palestinian state." "In the coming weeks and months, we hope that the White House will ensure that its statements and pronouncements will reiterate the ...

New AJC Research Report Finds Polish Textbooks Slight Jewish Presence And Contributions
06 May 98 | These are some of the conclusions presented in a just-released American Jewish Committee research report, "The Treatment of Jewish Themes in Polish Schools." The report, prepared for AJC by Dr. Hanna Wegrzynek, Research Fellow at the Jewish ...

American Jewish Committee Hails Historic Senate Vote On Nato Expansion
01 May 98 | The American Jewish Committee hailed yesterday's historic and overwhelming vote in the U.S. Senate to expand NATO to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The American Jewish Committee was the first Jewish organization in the United ...

Critical Questions On Jewish Families To Be Explored By Scholars
14 Apr 98 | Can Jewish leaders and institutions actually influence Jewish family life? The William Petschek National Jewish Family Center of the American Jewish Committee has produced some of the most important scientific research available on many different...

A Decisive Juncture for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and the American Mediation Effort
09 Apr 98 | The impression of an impasse was highlighted by prior American warnings that failure to accept the American ideas would provoke an American withdrawal from involvement in the process, and/or publication of the American ideas -- in effect, the ...

A Majority Of American Jews Perceive Anti-Semitism As A Greater Threat To American Jewish Life Than Intermarriage
06 Apr 98 | A new American Jewish Committee-sponsored public opinion survey of American Jews has revealed that 57 percent believe anti-Semitism is a greater threat than intermarriage to Jewish life in America today, while 38 percent cite intermarriage as the ...