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With just eight days left before President Trump's deadline to fix or nix the nuclear deal, European negotiators striving to save the JCPOA ought to redouble their efforts now to find common ground with their American counterparts.

Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria, will address the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum in Jerusalem. The four-day conference, June 10-13, is the premier Jewish global advocacy organization’s signature annual event.

Thirteen years have passed since a comprehensive and updated definition of antisemitism was drafted and adopted by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, or EUMC. Now, with proposed congressional legislation and various state and local initiatives, there are calls for employing a definition here.

AJC hosted a gathering of diplomats from nine Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay - for an exciting geopolitical discussion. We explored topics such as key developments during the recent Summit of the Americas in Peru as well as the role of civic organizations and Jewish communities in Latin America. Dina Siegel Vann, Director of the AJC Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs (BILLA) led the conversation.