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AJC official appointed to US State Department’s antisemitism envoy office

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Julie Katz, the Atlanta associate director of the American Jewish Committee, will take a year off from her position to serve in the U.S. State Department, working with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to...

AJC poll: Three-quarters of US Jews feel less safe after Oct. 7

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More than three-quarters of U.S. Jews report feeling less safe as Jews in the United States after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, according to the American Jewish Committee’s 2023 survey of...
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, speaks at a solidarity rally for Israel at AJC's office in New York on Oct. 11, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of AJC.

At diplomatic event in New York, rare consensus of support for Israel

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Defending the Jewish state at the United Nations is like being in a lion’s den, as former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and others have said. On Wednesday, biblical Isaiah references...
Santa Ana High School, the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, Calif. Credit: Steve Cukrov/Shutterstock.

Jewish groups sue California school district, alleging antisemitic ethnic-studies curricula

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The Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Potomac Law Group filed a lawsuit against the Santa Ana Unified School District and its education board late on Friday. The...
The 2023 Abraham Accords Anniversary Delegation meets with Edward Mermelstein, New York City's commissioner for international affairs, at NYC City Hal on Sept. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Getting down to business: The Abraham Accords Anniversary Delegation

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The hope of the Abraham Accords was that its biggest impact would be felt on a people-to-people level. As the third anniversary of the signing of the original pact approaches, a delegation of young...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers an address on Oct. 19, 2022. Source: Channel 1 (Iran) via MEMRI.

Dubowitz: $6b ransom to Iran will lead to more terrorism, hostages

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Washington reached a deal with Tehran on Thursday to release five Iranian Americans, whom the Islamic Republic detained evidently on trumped-up charges. In exchange for the five being released to house arrest, the United...

In Arabic video, AJC explains Jewish connection to Israel

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Knowledge and compassion are “critical tools to break the cycle of perpetual conflict and mutual demonization,” Benjamin Rogers, director of Middle East and North Africa initiatives at the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. That’s why...
American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch addresses the AJC Global Forum, June 11, 2023. Photo by Yair Meyuhas/AJC.

AJC announces effort to assist with federal plan to counter antisemitism

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Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), said on Monday that the group would launch a task force to help “ensure that the White House action plan becomes a reality in ways that will...
American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch (left) in conversation with opposition leader Yair Lapid at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, June 11, 2023. Photo by Yair Meyuhas/AJC.

AJC Global Forum meets to tackle challenges facing the Jewish people

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Political heavyweights and prominent journalists discussed key issues affecting Israel and the Jewish people at the opening plenary of the American Jewish Committee’s second AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening. Those issues...
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova was recognized at a diplomatic seder held by the American Jewish Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2022. Photo by Dmitry Shapiro.

Iranian aid to Russia altered Kyiv-Jerusalem relationship, Ukrainian ambassador says

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Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States told a gathering of Jewish media this week that Iran’s partnership with Russia has forced her country and the world to “rethink” how they deal with Iran. Oksana Markarova...