Sixteen prominent U.S. Christian leaders will soon complete an intensive 13-month educational program on Judaism, as part of the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI), a partnership of AJC and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel.
The Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (J-REC) is dismayed by the Israeli government’s decision to repeal the conversion reform legislation approved in November 2014.
AJC deplores the condemnation of Israel by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee. Meeting in Bonn, Germany, the committee voted 13 to 2, with 5 abstentions and one country absent, to express “deep concern” about Israeli actions that allegedly damage the structures and “visual integrity” of the Old City of Jerusalem.
In high-level meetings days after deadly attacks in Sinai and Heliopolis, AJC expressed its solidarity with Egypt in the fight against Islamist terror.