American Jewish Committee (AJC), in coordination with Israeli Flying Aid (IFA), is providing tents for thousands of people in Chad who have lost their homes in massive floods.
Ambassador Nathan Sales, the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism, announced today on an American Jewish Committee (AJC Advocacy Anywhere program that Hezbollah weapons caches, including significant stores of ammonium nitrate, have been discovered and destroyed across Europe.
AJC mourns the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who loomed large over the American legal landscape for more than half a century, including, notably, her service on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1980-1993) and the Supreme Court (1993-2020). She was 87 years old.
American Jewish Committee (AJC) is launching a global campaign to bar Iran from participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. “Iran’s record of abuse against its own athletes is abysmal,” states the public letter to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach that is the centerpiece of the AJC effort.
The urgent task before the country is to decouple the courts, and especially the Supreme Court, from raw partisan politics. Supreme Court appointments are a Presidential prerogative. They should not be fodder for presidential campaigns.