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The American Jewish Committee, also known by its initials, AJC, was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world.^[1] It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organization in the United States. [1] The American Jewish Congress is a civil rights body formed both to protect the civil rights of Jewish Americans, as well as to act as a conduit for pro-civil rights activities in the American Jewish community. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea or person. ...

"The American Jewish Committee has worked since 1906 to safeguard and strengthen Jews and Jewish life worldwide by promoting democratic and pluralistic societies that respect the dignity of all peoples."

Like the American Jewish Committee, another institution prominent in American Jewish life is the American Jewish Congress. It often goes by the initials AJC. For ease of identification, the two organizations are often referred to as the AJCommittee or the AJCongress. The American Jewish Congress is a civil rights body formed both to protect the civil rights of Jewish Americans, as well as to act as a conduit for pro-civil rights activities in the American Jewish community. ...

History

The American Jewish Committee was established in 1906 by a small group of American Jews concerned about pogroms aimed at the Jewish population of Russia. "According to the official statement of the committee...it is to prevent infringement of the civil and religious rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution." (New York Times, Nov. 11, 1907, pg 16). AJC has since headed advocacy campaigns on issues such as Holocaust denial, church-state relations, and American dependence on oil. Today, the organization has local chapters in 33 American cities, as well as in 8 countries around the globe. Pogrom (from Russian: ; from громить IPA: - to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious or other, and characterized by destruction of their homes, businesses and religious centers. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... The separation of church and state is a legal and political principle derived from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . ... Synthetic motor oil An oil is any substance that is in a viscous liquid state (oily) at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer, and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally water fearing) and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally fat loving). This general definition includes compound classes with otherwise unrelated...

The President elected in 1907 was Judge Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia. He served as President until at least 1912. The Sulzberger family are a Jewish family in the United States. ...

In 1908 the Executive Committee consisted of: Dr. Cyrus Adler of Philadelphia, head of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; Joseph Cohen of New York, Henry Cutler of Providence, Rev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, the Rev. Dr. J.L. Magnes of New York, Louis Marshall of New York; Jacob H. Schiff, New York; Isador Sobel, Erie, Penn., and Cyrus L. Sulzberger, New York." (New York Times, Nov. 9, 1908, pg. 3) Cyrus Adler (1863 - 1940) was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... Emil Gustav Hirsch (1851-1923), born in Luxembourg as a son of the rabbi and philosopher Samuel Hirsch, married the daughter of Rabbi David Einhorn, and became a major Reform movement rabbi in the United States. ... Judah Leon Magnes (born in San Francisco, California, July 5, 1877; died in New York, New York, October 27, 1948), was a prominent Reform Judaism rabbi in both the United States and Israel. ... Louis B. Marshall (b. ... Jacob Schiff (January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920) was a German-born New York City banker and philanthropist, who financed, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. ... The Sulzberger family are a Jewish family in the United States. ...

Louis B. Marshall served as president from 1912 until 1929. Under his tenure, AJC helped create in 1914 the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to aid Jewish victims of World War I, and later to play an instrumental role in aiding Jewish victims of World War II and the Holocaust. Louis B. Marshall (b. ... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is a United States Jewish charitable organization with the declared mission to serve the needs of Jews throughout the JEWS ARE LIL BITCHES THAT SHOULD DIE BECUASE THAT S WHAT HITLER TRIED TO DO..ALL HAIL HITLER!!!!!111 world, particularly where their lives as... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ...

In January 1941, Sol M. Stroock (d. Sep 1941) became President. He had been a member of the Jewish Theological Seminary since 1906. He had also served on the Executive Committee of the AJC since 1930, and since 1934 as its Chairman. The Sep 12 column of the New York Times has quite a lengthy series of eulogies about Mr. Stroock. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, known in the Jewish community simply as JTS, is the academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism, and is the movements main rabbinical seminary. ...

AJC played a leading role^[clarify] in paving the way for a significant upturn in Jewish-Christian relations in the years leading up to the Roman Catholic Church's 1965 document Nostra Aetate, and in the ensuing years. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic... Nostra Aetate is the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council. ...

In the 1970s, AJC spearheaded the fight to pass anti-boycott legislation to counter the Arab League's economic boycott of Israel. In 1975, AJC became the first Jewish organization to campaign against the UN's "Zionism is Racism" resolution. Headquarters Cairo, Egypt1 Largest cities Alexandria, Baghdad, Cairo, Casablanca, Damascus, Khartoum Official languages Arabic Membership 22 Arab states 2 observer states Leaders  -  Secretary General Amr Moussa (since 2001)  -  Council of the Arab League Sudan  -  Speaker of the Arab Parliament Nabih Berri Establishment  -  Alexandria Protocol March 22, 1945  Area  -  Total 13... United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on November 10, 1975 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), equated Zionism with racism. ...

In December 1987, AJC's Washington representative, Jeremy M. Levy, who would later become the organization's executive director, organized the Freedom Sunday Rally on behalf of Soviet Jewry. 250,000 people attended the D.C. rally, which demanded that the Soviet government allow Jewish emigration from the USSR.

In 1992, Japan, citing AJC's diplomacy, reversed its policy of supporting the Arab League's boycott of Israel.

In 2000, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, cited AJC as playing a central role in Israel's gaining acceptance into the UN's Western Europe and Others Group. Ambassador Dore Gold is a former Israeli diplomat. ...

In 2003, AJC opened in Brussels the Transatlantic Institute [2], aimed at fostering improved relations between Europe, Israel, and the U.S. That same year, AJC opened a Russian Affairs Division [3] to identify and train new leaders in American Jewish public advocacy.

In 2005, as part of its continuing efforts [4] to respond to humanitarian crises, AJC contributed $2.5 million to relief funds and reconstruction projects for the victims of the South Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake,[1] was a great undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December 26, 2004 with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. ... Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ...

AJC's American offices include the Belfer Center for American Pluralism, the Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Contemporary Jewish Life, Domestic Policy and Legal Affairs, Interreligious Affairs, Latin American Affairs, Middle East and International Terrorism, the Office of Government and International Affairs, Russian Affairs, and Special Projects. The organization is also affiliated with many other human interest groups and projects in numerous other countries. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Terrorist redirects here. ...

The organization's mission statement is “to safeguard the welfare and security of Jews in the United States, in Israel, and throughout the world; to strengthen the basic principles of pluralism around the world, as the best defense against anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry; to enhance the quality of American Jewish life by helping to ensure Jewish continuity and deepen the ties between American and Israeli Jews.” The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...

AJC publishes the American Jewish Year Book. The American Jewish Year Book, which has been published annually since 1899, is the authoritative record of events and trends in Jewish life in the United States and around the world. ...

Controversy

In an essay, “‘Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,” by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, published on its web site,^[2] the AJC attacked Jewish critics of Israel by name, particularly the editors and contributors to "Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (Grove Press), a 2003 collection of essays edited by Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon. The essay accused them of supporting a rise in anti-Semitism, and of participating in an "onslaught against Zionism and the Jewish State".^[3] The Forward called the essay "a shocking tissue of slander" whose intent was to "turn Jews against liberalism and silence critics". ^[4] Richard Cohen remarked that the essay "has given license to the most intolerant and narrow-minded of Israel's defenders so that, as the AJC concedes in my case, any veering from orthodoxy is met with censure or, from someone like Reinharz, the most powerful of all post-Holocaust condemnations -- anti-Semite -- is diluted beyond recognition". ^[5] The essay was also criticized by rabbi Michael Lerner ^[6] and in op-eds in The Guardian ^[7], and The Boston Globe ^[8], where Stanley I. Kutler noted that the AJC itself had opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine until 1946. Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism is a 2006 essay released by the American Jewish Committee, authored by Alvin H. Rosenfeld , with an introduction by the AJCs executive director, David A. Harris. ... Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism is a 2006 essay released by the American Jewish Committee, authored by Alvin H. Rosenfeld , with an introduction by the AJCs executive director, David A. Harris. ... The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ... CLEAN THIS UP! Most of the content is a personal attack on Lerner, Jewish Renewal, and his political and spiritual views. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and New England. ...

References

1. ^ H. H. Ben-Sasson (1976). A History of the Jewish People (paper), Harvard University Press. 
2. ^ Alvin H. Rosenfeld (December 2006). "Progressive" Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism (PDF). American Jewish Committee. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
3. ^ Patricia Cohen (2007-01-31). "Essay Linking Liberal Jews and Anti-Semitism Sparks a Furor". The New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
4. ^ "Infamy". The Forward (2007-02-01). Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
5. ^ Richard Cohen (2007-02-06). "Cheapening a Fight Against Hatred". The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
6. ^ Michael Lerner (2007-02-02). There Is No New Anti-Semitism. The Boston Chronicle. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
7. ^ Matthew Yglesias (2007-02-08). "Are we all anti-semites now?". The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
8. ^ Stanley I. Kutler (2007-02-07). "All critics of Israel aren't anti-Semites". The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.

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See also

• Martin Luther King, Jr. (Awarded American Liberties Medallion)
• Louis B. Marshall, one of the AJC's German-Jewish founders in 1906, President from 1912 until his death in 1929
• Norman Podhoretz (Retired Editor-in-Chief (1960-1995) of Commentary)

• Midge Decter (Podhoretz's wife)

• Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs
• Harold Tanner, Past President
• BlueStar PR
• David A. Harris

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External links

• Official website
• President attends Centennial dinner
• AJC Archives