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ACCESS, AJC's new generation program, inspires and empowers young professionals to engage today’s critical domestic and international issues. Working at the nexus between the Jewish community and the world, we reach out to diplomats, policy makers and young leaders of diverse religious and ethnic communities and strive to re-envision the role of young Jewish leaders in global affairs.
ACCESS is a division of AJC's Helen and Martin Kimmel Young Leadership Institute
Chapters in: Atlanta | Boston | Chicago | Colorado | Los Angeles | Miami | NYC | San Francisco | Washington, DC
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ACCESS Making Waves
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Visionaries for a New Era: Two NY ACCESS members featured in NY Week’s 36 under 36
Each year, The Jewish Week shines a spotlight on a new crop of three dozen forward-thinking young people who are helping reshape the Jewish community. This year, two ACCESS board members were included.
To read their profiles, click their names below.
Daniel Pincus
Efraim Chalamish
For even more ACCESS leader profiles, click here.
For ACCESS program and activities check out the calendar below.
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Pics below from AJC's and ACCESS's participation in this year's Salute To Israel Parade in New York.
Also: Some pics from our ACCESS Making Waves Gala and volunteers at a high school Career Day.
ACCESS's first ever Making Waves Gala. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO
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ACCESS NY: Global Action for a New Generation
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2010 |
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SEPTEMBER through DECEMBER is our ENGAGING in GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY campaign: with a series of opportunities for international diplomatic advocacy on behalf of key Jewish issues today. |
Thurs
Sept 16
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ENGAGE: Repairing relations-Israel and South Africa. Meeting with
influential Foreign Affairs editor. Following ACCESS's first-ever trip to
South Africa, AJC focuses on rich and complex relations between South Africa
and Israel. AJC Africa Institute director, Eliseo Neuman, in discussion with
Foreign Affairs editor Sasha Polakow-Suransky. Polakow-Suransky's recent
book The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
has garnered considerable interest and controversy in its account of the
military (including nuclear) cooperation between Israel and Apartheid South
Africa in the late '70s and '80s. Polakow-Suransky is a senior editor at
Foreign Affairs and holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford
University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 2003 to 2006. His writing has
appeared in The American Prospect, the International Herald Tribune, The New
Republic, and Newsweek. Part of ACCESS's Engaging in Global Jewish Advocacy
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Wed
Oct 6
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ENGAGE: Join us for a Walking tour of the Lower East Side and discussion about the history of that neighborhood with young diplomats. Program starts 5:30 pm. Register here. |
Tues
Oct 12 |
ENGAGE: The Future of the German Military. ACCESS invites you to join a
dinner at AJC headquarters with a group of 35 German military officers who
are liaisons to German high schools. Discussion will focus on Israel and the
Middle East, Iran's nuclear quest and trans-Atlantic relations. The visit is
part of an ongoing exchange, initiated 16 years ago, between AJC and the
German military. Doors open 6:30 pm. RSVP to altmanl@ajc.org. |
Sun
Oct 24
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ACCESS JOINS: Mitzvah Day 2010. Give back to NYC's needy by volunteering side-by-side with fellow ACCESS members. RSVP to altmanl@ajc.org. Details forthcoming.
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INFORM – ENGAGE – CELEBRATE – TRAVEL... how do these programs fit into the bigger picture of our work and add up to IMPACT? Click here to find out.
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Jun 21- 23, 2011
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Israeli Presidential Conference
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See Past ACCESS NY Programs | More Pictures
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* Most Sunday brunch programs are child-friendly. Contact global@ajc.org for info and to register children joining
About ACCESS NY
ACCESS is comprised of a select and diverse group of young Jewish professionals.
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ACCESS has a number major
substantive initiatives,
described below.
Learn More > |
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