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AJC’s David A. Harris and Lena Altman with a visiting delegation of leading German broadcast journalists.
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November 3, 2008 – New York –
Twelve leading German broadcast journalists visited AJC headquarters in New York today for a two-hour discussion with AJC staff.
“Our regular dialogue with visiting journalists is one of the many ways that AJC closely engages today’s Germany,” said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris, who led the discussion. “As the first Jewish organization to re-enter Germany after World War II, and the first to open an office there ten years ago, AJC has been at the forefront in preserving shared memory and authoring a common future.”
The conversation touched on the American elections, the U.S.-Israel relationship, German attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust, media treatment of Israel, and prospects for peace in the Middle East.
The group of reporters, producers, and editors from Germany’s top radio and television stations was hosted in the United States by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF). AJC and RTNDF have cooperated for over a decade, bringing several hundred of Germany’s most influential media personalities into contact with AJC through at least two encounters each year.
AJC’s Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, located in Berlin since 1998, is directed by Deidre Berger. |
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