Upcoming Events    

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - Annual Trip to US Holocaust Memorial Museum

All day trip, Washington, DC

Central New Jersey Chapter sponsors Annual Trip to US Holocaust Memorial Museum for Clergy Students from Princeton Theological Seminary.

 

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - Board Meeting

7:30 pm, Private Home, Princeton

 

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - AJC/Energy Series Part 1

7:30 pm, Princeton Public Library

Counting Carbon with Mark Warner of Sun Farm Network

 

Sunday, January 10, 2010 - AJC/Energy Series Part 2

1:00 pm, Princeton Public Library

Turning Oil to Salt with Anne Korin of Set America Free Coalition 

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010 - AJC Bridging America Project

6pm - 9pm, Princeton University

Task Force Session for stakeholders on comprehensive immigration reform.

  

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 2010 Ira Silverman Teen Leadership Confernce 

8:30 am - 12:30 pm, Rider University, Bart Luedeke Student Center

Annual Conference for high school students. Living Voices presentation of Through the Eyes of a Friend.

 

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - President's Circle Dessert Reception

7:30 pm, Private home, Princeton, NJ

AJC's Central NJ President's Circle dessert Reception for major contributors.

  

Thursday, February 25, 2010 - AJC Bridging America Project

6pm - 9pm, Princeton University

Task Force Session for stakeholders on comprehensive immigration reform.

 

Thursday, March 11, 2010 - Board Meeting

7:30 pm, Private home, Princeton

  

Thursday, March 11, 2010 - AJC Bridging America Project

6pm - 9pm, Princeton University

Task Force Session for stakeholders on comprehensive immigration reform.

  

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - AJC/Energy Series Part 4

7:30 pm, Princeton Public Library

 

Wednesday, April 28 - Friday, April 30 2010 - AJC Annual Meeting

Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC

 

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - AJC/Energy Series Part 1

7:30 pm, Princeton Public Library

Counting Carbon with Mark Warner of Sun Farm Network

 

Thursday, May 27, 2010 - Central NJ Learned Hand Dinner

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Hyatt Regency in Princeton

Dinner honoring Marc Citron & Steve Orlofsky

 

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - Annual Dinner

6:30 pm, Greenacres Country Club

Who we are

AJC's Central New Jersey Chapter, founded in 1944, has more than 300 member families who live in Mercer and Middlesex counties and across the border in Pennsylvania. Princeton, Lawrenceville, Trenton and Bucks County are the areas of residence for a majority of the membership.

The Chapter is actively engaged in improving intergroup and interfaith relations in the community, sponsoring programs that address the issues of stereotyping, civil rights, racism and prejudice and providing programs that focus on political, cultural and spiritual topics relevant to American Jews. Chapter members are also engaged in political advocacy and lobbying state and national legislators on issues that involve Israel, global anti-Semitism, terrorism, energy, church-state separation, immigration and civil and religious liberties.

Signature Chapter Programs:

Ira Silverman Teen Leadership Conference

The Central New Jersey Chapter sponsors an annual leadership conference for area high school students with proven leadership skills, who meet to address issues of contemporary concern. The half day conference integrates a performance by Living Voices with small group facilitator-led discussions during which the students address the themes of stereotyping, civil rights, racism and prejudice. Living Voices presentations are unique multi-media educational programs that include a live actor interacting with archival footage to tell the story of a seminal time in history.

Previous conference participants have viewed The Right To Dream, which tells the story of Ruby, a young black woman growing up in the Mississippi of the 1960’s, on the brink of the American civil rights movement and Ruby’s introduction to the daily impact of racism and, to leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., who begin to show her that something different may be possible for blacks in America.

Living Voices presentations are part of the chapter’s prejudice-reduction campaign and are a highly effective way to teach about civil rights and the dangers of prejudice. It is appropriate for middle school, high school or college classes; for churches, mosques and synagogues; for civic organizations and for corporate diversity programs. Living Voices is a non-profit production company based in Seattle. The Central New Jersey office donates staff time to act as the exclusive promoter and booking agent for this presentation and four others in the state of New Jersey.  Over 140,000 students have seen these presentations in public and private schools, churches and synagogues.  

Annual Day Trip to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Clergy students from Princeton Theological Seminary participate in this day long trip sponsored by the Central New Jersey Chapter in coordination with Jewish and non-Jewish area clergy and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education for more than 50 students, many of whom are part of the International Masters Program.  This trip includes a strong educational component prepared by the chapter along with personal testimony from Holocaust survivors.  More than 300   students, most of whom will become teachers, pulpit leaders and communal leaders have participated in these trips since 2002. 

 Israel Advocacy 

Chapter members and staff have created a concise and compelling PowerPoint presentation entitled “Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” AJC staff offers training to those interested in becoming presenters.  Call our office for additional information.

Princeton Society  

Princeton University students are selected to join AJC's Princeton Society and meet with chapter members at events held in private homes during the academic year.