American Jewish Committee

Jewish Community Stresses Need For Courageous Leadership To Create An Atmosphere Of Hope In The Middle East
12 Mar 97 | In addition to the American Jewish Committee, the meeting included representatives of the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Congress, Bnai Brith, AIPAC, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Americans ...

AJCommittee Urges United Nations To Stay Out Of Current Israeli-Palestinian Debate
12 Mar 97 | The American Jewish Committee today urged the United Nation's General Assembly not to debate Israel's decision to build housing in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem. The General Assembly, the AJC contended, is the wrong forum to debate the ...

The Condition Of The Jewish Community One Year After The Rabin Assassination
07 Mar 97 | The American Jewish Committee today released a "written symposium" to examine ways in which to repair communal divisions within the Jewish community and rebuild a sense of common peoplehood. This report comes one year after the release of "...

American Jewish Committee Calls For Naturalization Process That Is Fair To Immigrants
05 Mar 97 | The news conferences were scheduled to take place prior to hearings by the U.S. Congressional Oversight Committee on Naturalization, which is expected to review U.S. naturalization procedures used in recent years. But the American Jewish ...

AJC Alarmed Over Arson Attack On Warsaw Synagogue
27 Feb 97 | The American Jewish Committee is shocked and alarmed over the recent arson attack on the main synagogue of Warsaw, and has expressed its concern and solidarity with the Jewish community in Poland. "We were also pleased," they AJC leaders wrote, "...

In Meeting With Turkish Minister, AJC Decries Official And Press Expressions Of Anti-Semitism
24 Feb 97 | Turkish State Minister Abdullah G�l was told frankly during his Washington visit of the deep disquiet among American Jews over anti-Semitic statements attributed to Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan and anti-Semitic articles appearing in newspapers...

AJC-Led Delegation Examines Jewish Book Collection In Vilnius; They Are In No Immediate Danger
18 Feb 97 | An American Jewish Committee-organized delegation has just returned from a three-day visit to Vilnius, Lithuania, where they went to check on the condition of the tens of thousands of Jewish books, documents, periodicals and Torah scrolls ...

Switzerland's Real Role In WWII And A Deep Look Into The Swiss Bank Controversy
18 Feb 97 | Recently declassified documents have raised serious questions and considerable discussion about the true nature of the Swiss-German relationship during World War II, including its financial holdings of Jewish refugees and the Swiss role in trading...

AJC Releases New, Comprehensive Publication On Racial And Ethnic Identity In America
11 Feb 97 | : A Symposium on Pluralism and Public Policy," looks at the impact of race and ethnic identity on public policy from the broadest spectrum of American thinkers. It is a product of AJC's Center for American Pluralism, and was released at a special...

American Jewish Committee Deeply Gratified Over Verdict In Yankel Rosenbaum Trial
10 Feb 97 | "The American Jewish Committee is deeply gratified that the jury in Federal Court has found both Lemerick Nelson and Charles Price guilty of violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, the visiting Australian Hasidic scholar who was stabbed to...

American Jewish Committee Urges Ratification Of The Chemical Weapons Convention
06 Feb 97 | The American Jewish Committee is urging the Senate to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention(CWC), an international treaty which bans the use, possession and manufacture of chemical weapons. "Chemical weapons have, in recent memory, threatened ...

AJC Extends Condolences To Israel; Calls Helicopter Crashes A National Tragedy
05 Feb 97 | The American Jewish Committee extends heartfelt condolences to the Government and people of Israel on the horrific crash of two Israel Defense Forces helicopters yesterday. These young people played an important role in Israel's defense.

German Pensions To Waffen SS Veterans Unfathomable, Says American Jewish Committee
04 Feb 97 | Against the backdrop of recent media reports on the subject, the American Jewish Committee has renewed its urgent appeal to the German government to compensate Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in the Baltic states and in countries of the ...

AJC Applauds Indictment Of White Supremacist Bank Robbers
31 Jan 97 | The American Jewish Committee congratulates the Department of Justice for its indictment yesterday of five men charged with a series of Midwest bank robberies. said Kenneth Stern, AJC's specialist on anti-Semitism and author of A Force Upon The ...

Special Briefing The American Jewish Committee
29 Jan 97 | It has also positioned Israel to attempt to renew its peace process with Syria. A number of Arab countries that had established relations on a limited basis with Israel before the election of Prime Minister Netanyahu last May effectively froze ...

AJC And Fuller Theological Seminary Explore Religion And The Political Process At Conference
23 Jan 97 | In an effort to bring together Jews and Evangelical Christians for reflection and dialogue about religion and the political process, the American Jewish Committee and Fuller Theological Seminary will co-sponsor a major two-day conference on "...

AJCommittee Welcomes Announcement Of Hebron Deal
15 Jan 97 | The American Jewish Committee welcomes the announcement of an agreement reached between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Israeli troop redeployments from most of Hebron and on further implementation of agreements under the Oslo Accords, ...

Further Redeployment Netanyahu's Post-Hebron Dilemma
09 Jan 97 | The ongoing stalemate between Israel and the PLO over a Hebron redeployment agreement no longer reflects any significant disagreement over Hebron itself. The first Oslo agreement, signed in September 1993, stipulates that after the Gaza-Jericho ...

AJC Interreligious Affairs Director Honored In Poland For His Work In Catholic - Jewish Relations
02 Jan 97 | Rabbi A. James Rudin will be honored in Poland at the Golden Hall of Warsaw University on Tuesday, January 7, 1997. Waldemar Chrostowski, the Director of the Warsaw-based Institute of Catholic - Jewish Dialogue and a Co-Chair of the Polish ...

American Jewish Committee Condemns Shooting In Hebron
02 Jan 97 | The American Jewish Committee condemns yesterday's random shooting in a Hebron market by an off-duty, and reportedly deranged, Israeli solider. People of good will - Israelis and Palestinians -- cannot allow these wanton acts of bloodshed to ...