Join AJC New England Young Leadership division on November 1st for a unique opportunity to network with other globally-engaged young professionals while hearing directly from three Boston-based diplomats from Israel, Japan and Germany.
Jewish high school students are not just future leaders, but today’s leaders. Through education and advocacy programs, High School Affairs at American Jewish Committee (AJC) works to empower teens to speak up for Israel and the Jewish people, and speak out against growing antisemitism and bigotry.
In evaluating the trajectory of Catholic-Jewish Relations in the Pope Francis era, one picture is worth a
thousand words. Pope Francis has identified Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion as one of his favorite paintings.2 In the aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938, when hundreds of European synagogues were torched, foreshadowing greater evil yet to come, Chagall artistically interpreted the threat of Nazism within the continuum of antisemitism.
Thank you for inviting me to join in this centenary celebration of the Balfour Declaration – a celebration of the practical wisdom of a war-time British Government, of the triumph of historical obligation over colonial expediency, of the long-delayed recognition of a people’s rightful inheritance.