American Jewish Committee

The American Jewish Committee ( German: American Jewish Committee ) is a U.S. organization that sees its task,

The organization was founded in 1906 in New York with the participation of Rabbi Judah Leon Magnes reform ( 1877-1948 ), who was its director until shortly before his death.

Currently ( 2014) maintains the AJC in the U.S. its national office in New York City and 33 local offices in the United States. In Europe, the AJC the Lawrence & Lee Ramer Institute for German - Jewish Relations in Berlin, the AJC Transatlantic Institute in Brussels and offices in Paris and Rome maintains. In Geneva, the AJC has been represented since 1993 by the watchdog agency UN Watch.

The importance of the organization highlights the celebration of the hundredth anniversary on 4 May 2006, on George W. Bush, Kofi Annan and, with Angela Merkel, the first time a German Chancellor appeared as a speaker. For the anniversary gathered the Association for their goals in five years $ 105 million from 1600 donors. Honorary President Alfred H. Moses.

Since 2009, may be completed at the AJC an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.

The organization is not to be confused with the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Council.

Activities

The AJC operates, in addition to UN Watch (1993 ), since 1981, the Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute on American Jewish - Israeli Relations to intensify the relations of Jewish communities in the U.S. and Israel. The Project Interchange funded educational tours political, ethical and religious leaders of the world to Israel. AJC surveys led to the knowledge of the Holocaust and understanding of Judaism in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and among the immigrant Russian Jews to the United States.

Since 2005, the AJC runs a campaign to reform the United Nations with the aim to stop by her complaining that unequal treatment of Israel in the context of human rights in the Palestinian territories. This is required to change the mode of emergency meetings of the UN General Assembly, in which Israel is often condemned, as well as various UN departments to withdraw the funds (Department for Palestinian Rights, Committee for inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in the occupied territories. ). Also, the reconstruction of the UNCHR was a major goal of the AJC.