On the 75th anniversary today of the Jewish service heard around the world, from Aachen, Germany, AJC is reissuing a historic video, which includes recorded excerpts of the live broadcast on NBC Radio.
AJC LA Director Rick Hirschhaut joined Board Members Ira Handelman and Bob Horning for a series of Capitol Hill meetings including the inaugural reception of the Congressional Black Jewish Caucus. The Caucus, the first of its kind, was launched at the AJC Global Forum in June. The AJC delegation met with Rep. Kim Scheir as well as Rep. Adam Schiff's Chief of Staff.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student government has adopted a resolution chastising Chancellor Robert Jones for “wrongfully categorizing anti-Zionism as antisemitism.” The resolution, introduced by supporters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), rests on startling factual inaccuracies and is an insult to American Jews.
At an American Jewish Committee (AJC) reception, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius was praised for his efforts to correct the narrative around Lithuanian complicity in the Holocaust.
