American Jewish Committee

AJCommittee Policy Statement Calls For Support Of Israel's Ne'eman Commission On Conversion Bill
15 Dec 97 | The American Jewish Committee's Board of Governors, addressing the current controversy in Israel over conversion to Judaism, has adopted a policy statement calling for "compromise measures" and urging Orthodox and non-Orthodox "support for the ...

American Jewish Committee Urges U.S. Commission On Security And Cooperation In Europe To Adopt Ten-Point Plan To Respond To Religious Persecution Abroad
09 Dec 97 | In testimony before Members of Congress, in Philadelphia on December 5th, at a special hearing on religious liberty for the 55-nation Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the American Jewish Committee urged the adoption of a ...

U.S. Working Hard To Achieve Breakthrough In Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
08 Dec 97 | U.S. Special Middle East Coordinator Dennis Ross today highlighted the importance of trying to achieve a breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on what he termed "the four-part agenda -- security, time-out, further redeployment, and...

Harriet And Robert Heilbrunn, Of New York City, Pledge One Million Dollars To The American Jewish Committee For Creation Of Institute For International Interrelgious Understanding
08 Dec 97 | Through a one-million-dollar gift from Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn of New York City, the American Jewish Committee will establish a special Institute to expand upon its already highly-respected interreligious work around the world. The creation ...

Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Stalled, Amid Challenges to Leaders' Status
25 Nov 97 | The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is effectively stalemated. Recent U.S. efforts did not persuade Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to offer the territorial concessions PLO Chairman Arafat has set as a precondition to enter final status ...

Chinese Arms Exports To Iran Pose Continuing Threat To Israel's Security And Other U.S. Strategic Interests, Says New Report Of AJCommittee's Asia Institute
24 Nov 97 | The report, "Silkworms and Summitry: Chinese Arms Exports to Iran and the US-China Relationship," written by Dr. Bates Gill, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, examines the ...

Ameican Jewish Committee Denounces Terrorist Attack Outside Luxor, Egypt
17 Nov 97 | The American Jewish Committee strongly denounces today's brutal terrorist attack outside Luxor, Egypt, which has left more than 60 people, mostly tourists, dead and injured. This latest gun-battle, reportedly carried out by Islamic militants, ...

AJCommittee Praises American Leadership Role In Confronting Iraq
10 Nov 97 | In a letter sent to President Clinton today, the American Jewish Committee expressed strong support for American leadership in "dealing with the crisis" brought on by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In conjunction with the recent opening of the ...

American Jewish Committee Executive Director Testifies Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
05 Nov 97 | Testifying today before a hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on NATO expansion, David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, urged the Senate to "grasp the significance of this moment, the chance to ...

AJCommittee Legislative Director Testifies Before Congress To Urge Enactment Of Workplace Religious Freedom Act
21 Oct 97 | The American Jewish Committee today urged Congress to promptly enact into law the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA) to ensure that "employers have a meaningful obligation to reasonably accommodate their employees' religious practice." He ...

Anti-Semitic Remarks By Malaysian Prime Minister Appalling
15 Oct 97 | In response to recent statements reportedly made by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad calling Jews "robbers" and "criminals" responsible for a depression of Malaysia's national currency and stock markets, the Asia and Pacific Rim ...

AJCommittee Alarmed By New And Dangerous Iranian Missile Developments And By French / Russian / Malaysian Oil Deal With Iran
01 Oct 97 | The American Jewish Committee has for several years been alerting policy makers in Europe, Asia and elsewhere of the developing strategic threat posed by Iran. Through meetings abroad and in New York, the AJC has emphasized that business as usual...

AJCommittee Urges State Department To Issue Designation Of Foreign Organizations As Terrorist Groups
24 Sep 97 | The American Jewish Committee has expressed concern that a measure included in the antiterrorism legislation signed into law in April 1996, directing the Secretary of State to designate foreign organizations as terrorist groups, has not yet been ...

"One-Sided: The Ongoing Campaign Against Israel In The United Nations"
23 Sep 97 | This assessment is among the conclusions of a just-released special American Jewish Committee report, "One-Sided: The Ongoing Campaign Against Israel in the United Nations," which summarizes key 51st Session and Emergency Session General Assembly ...

AJCommittee Begins Meetings With Over 40 Foreign Ministers, In Conjunction With Opening Of 52nd Session Of United Nations General Assembly
23 Sep 97 | In conjunction with the opening of the 52nd session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the American Jewish Committee has embarked on an unprecedented series of substantive meetings with the Foreign Ministers of more than 40 nations. ...

Terrorism Knows No Borders And Needs No Passport
18 Sep 97 | The American Jewish Committee strongly denounces today's terrorist attack outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which has left nine tourists dead and more than a dozen other people injured. The American Jewish Committee rededicates itself to ...

AJCommittee Ad Campaign Urges End To Discrimination Against Israel In United Nations System; Iraq, Iran, And Cuba Sit On Security Council While Israel Is Excluded
18 Sep 97 | Forty-seven years after becoming a UN member, Israel is still not eligible to sit on the Security Council and other key UN bodies. The other column headline reads "Countries not eligible to sit on the United Nations Security Council," and below ...

Accused Nazi War Criminal Lileikis Will Be Brought To Trial In A Very Short While
15 Sep 97 | In a meeting with AJC leaders in Vilnius, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gedimanas Vagnorius assured the group that alleged Nazi security police chief Aleksandras Lileikis will be brought to trial soon. In the one-hour meeting with the Prime Minister,...

AJCommittee Condemns Bombings In Jerusalem Mall
04 Sep 97 | The American Jewish Committee strongly condemns the multiple explosions set off at a busy mall in downtown Jerusalem, which have once again tragically claimed innocent Israeli lives and caused serious injury to many others. According to news ...

American Jewish Year Book Examines Current Trends In American Jewish Philanthropy
03 Sep 97 | The article is found in the just-released 1997 American Jewish Year Book, published annually by the American Jewish Committee. According to Prof. Wertheimer, in 1995, Jewish philanthropic giving to domestic and international causes totaled ...