Cincinnati

AJC Cincinnati Chapter

(513) 621-4020
cincinnati@ajc.org

Barbara Glueck, Chapter Director
Patti Heldman, Chapter President

Who We Are

The AJC Cincinnati Chapter, founded in 1944, has almost 600 families with a deep commitment to improving intergroup relations. The Chapter combats bigotry and works to promote tolerance and mutual respect.

Planned Giving to AJC

We are pleased to inform you that AJC has just launched a new planned giving website, which you can visit on the home page of AJC’s website (drop down button on contribute button and also right on the home page itself) or at  We hope you will agree that with its simple explanations, diagrams and donor testimonials it is user friendly and makes a sometimes formidable topic accessible.

AJC Planned Giving Website 

Click here for the 5 Year Jewish Holiday Calendar

Upcoming Events

Ongoing programs:

  • Advocacy with legislators
  • Energy Committee
  • Israel for Christians
  • Hands Across the Campus
  • Lazarus Awards
  • Darfur coalition
  • Immigration coalition

Chapter Programs

  1. Hands Across the Campus, AJC's high school diversity program, helps faculty and students create strategies for building intergroup respect, confronting prejudice, and resolving conflicts.  AJC Cincinnati Chapter offers training for teachers at workshops each semester.   We look forward to welcoming you to our network of Hands schools.
  2. Feel free to copy and use the  text of AJC's Hands Across the Campus manuals,         designed to bring student leadership into the management of diversity in high schools.  Please try both the Core American Values lessons and the Youth Leadership Program to see how they fit into your school's curriculum.  Click here for Hands Core American Values Manualand Youth Leadership Program Please give credit to AJC when you use our program.  Write AJC Cincinnati Chapter if you want to see the ethnic sharing questions or need more information: cincinnati@ajc.org To see how Hands materials are aligned with Ohio Academic Content Standards, click here for A Hands Curriculum Alignment.
  1. Our energy committee advocates for reducing dependence on foreign sources and encouraging "green" solutions.
  2. An ongoing series offers pastors and church leaders the opportunity to hear local rabbis speak about Israel from a personal perspective.
  3. Every spring since 1994, the Cincinnati Chapter celebrates the Jewish festival of freedom with our friends from other racial, ethnic, and religious groups at the Community Intergroup Seder.  
  4. Elected officials learn about AJC's public policy positions at ongoing meetings with legislators.
  5. AJC celebrates Thanksgiving by reading America's Table with our inter-ethnic partners at a festive lunch.
  6. The Cincinnati Chapter builds bridges of understanding between Catholics and Jews, especially clergy in training at the Athenaeum and the Hebrew Union College.
  7. The Cincinnati Chapter forges ties to the growing Hispanic community.
  8. The annual Simon Lazarus Jr. Human Relations Awards honor dozens of outstanding student volunteers nominated by area high schools for their good deeds.
  9. The Cincinnati Chapter participates in Greater Cincinnati Advocates for Darfur, Cincinnati Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati, and Citizens School Committee