Tag: AJC
American Jewish Committee Opens First Office in Arab Country
Called “AJC Abu Dhabi: The Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding,” it will be led by former ambassador Marc Sievers.
Answer This American Jewish Poll: Should Bibi Speak to Congress?
A link for the poll is provided below. Deadline is today.
Erdogan Happy to Return Award Given by American Jewish Congress
“He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun/That fool was the terror of Highway 101 - ‘ from the song “Black Denim Trousers.”
Anti-democratic Effort to Bar Pro-Israel Voices in UCLA Govt Fails
The UCLA judicial board handed Students for Justice in Palestine the latest in a string of defeats.
Power Pushing Israel’s Bid for Security Council
Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, recommitted to securing Israel a tour on the U.N. Security Council after assisting its entry...
Shushed and Booed, Podhoretz Walks Out on 92 St. Y Panel
Maybe the moderator should have "reined in" the emotions when the audience was booing and "enraged" - her words - by Podhoretz's defense of Israel from J Street's blaming Israel for the academic boycott.
Ukrainian Jewish Leaders: Romania Unfit to Lead Holocaust Body
Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with...
UN: Ban Ki-moon Did Not Mean to Retract Statement on Anti-Israel Bias
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process Robert Serry attempted to clarify Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s seemingly conflicting statements regarding anti-Israel bias at...
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Facing Heated Calls For Change On Several Fronts
WASHINGTON – The latest battle over religious pluralism in Israel has unleashed a new barrage of criticism and calls for reform aimed at the Orthodox-controlled Israeli Chief Rabbinate.
Canadian Foreign Minister: ‘We’re Israel’s Best Friend’
At the end of a week in which the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination called for a boycott of goods produced in “illegal” Israeli settlements, including East Jerusalem, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird declared that "Israel has no greater friend in the world today than Canada." Baird was addressing the American Jewish Committee World Leaders Plenary in D.C.
Poll: Obama Winning Back Jews
Jewish support for President Obama has improved significantly in the last year and a half, according to a new survey by the American Jewish Committee .