American Jewish Committee

Felice Gaer, Jewish organization official who championed human rights for all, dies at 78

The director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights sought to balance the universal and the particular.

Hostage father Jonathan Dekel-Chen lambastes Netanyahu at American Jewish Committee Oct. 7 event

“The soul of Israel cannot survive,” Dekel-Chen said in a speech notable for its typically apolitical host.

Israel aid debate reveals differences among Jewish groups over immigration

Some Jewish organizations said that an aid package for Israel was not worth the blow it dealt to the asylum system.

Politics

Jewish groups object to GOP’s treatment of Muslim candidate for Court of Appeals seat

Israel

5 major Jewish groups team up to advocate for Israel and push for ‘accurate’ coverage of Israel-Hamas war

Politics

ADL, AJC join Orthodox groups in Groff v DeJoy, Supreme Court case about religious protections in the workplace

United States

New survey shows 4 in 10 American Jews felt less secure last year, higher than in 2021

Israel

They united to oppose an extremist party entering Israel’s government in 2019. This time, leading US Jewish groups are staying quiet.

United States

How an accidental activist became the ‘foreign minister of the Jewish people’

United States

AJC poll: American Jewish millennials care about Israel and are largely unworried about how it is perceived

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