In this video, Toby Levy shares how her experience growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland shaped her passion as a Zionist, her love of America, and her commitment to ensuring that Jewish history and the Holocaust are taught to young Jews.
In this video, Arun Viswanath shares his experience growing up in a home speaking Yiddish and Tamil and learning to appreciate his multicultural upbringing and how that connects him to the global Jewish community.
In 2020 Germany cut ties with “Islamic Relief Germany” over the organization’s Muslim Brotherhood links and its leaders’ antisemitic statements, although the EU continues to provide financial support to the group. Join AJC for a timely discussion on the rise of extremism in Europe and the integrity of the EU’s funding standards.
In this video, Dr. Saba Soomekh, Associate Director of AJC Los Angeles, shares her experience growing up as a first-generation Persian American and how her identity as a Persian Jew has shaped her life, from family Shabbat dinners to a career as a professor of religious studies and an advocate for global Jewry and against antisemitism.
The American Jewish community is a beautiful tapestry made up of individuals from many diverse backgrounds and with many ways of being Jewish. There’s no one American Jewish experience, and each unique perspective only adds to the richness of the Jewish story in America. Bobby Lapin, Chair of AJC's Contemporary Jewish Life, shares his American Jewish experience.