AJC Global Forum 2024 News and Video

Ronald Liebowitz, President of Brandeis University, and Dr. Laura Shaw Frank, AJC Director, William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department, talk about antisemitism.

AJC CEO Ted Deutch and Dr. Laura Shaw Frank, AJC Director, William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department, sit down in separate conversations with the presidents of the University of Michigan and Brandeis University to discuss a range of issues on college campuses today.

After a school year marked by rising antisemitism, protests extolling Hamas and other terrorists, and shocking harassment of Jewish students on college campuses across the United States and around the world, American Jewish Committee (AJC) today honored three student leaders representing outstanding campus organizations with the Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy at its annual Global Forum.

Hanna Veiler accepts the Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy on behalf of the German Union of Jewish Students.

Barnard/Columbia student Noa Fay accepts the Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy.

AJC presented its Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy to three outstanding organizations.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) in North America today announced an historic partnership aimed at forging closer ties between Israeli and American Jewish teens and addressing growing rates of antisemitism in private non-Jewish high schools.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) in North America announced a historic partnership at AJC Global Forum 2024 aimed at forging closer ties between Israeli and American Jewish teens and addressing growing rates of antisemitism in private high schools.

With the growing unrest around the world from Ukraine to the Israel-Hamas war, global experts Richard Fontaine, CEO, Center for a New American Security and Julia Ioffe, Founding Partner and Washington Correspondent, Puck News break down what you need to know about these conflicts and the threats they pose to world security.

Since the October 7 Hamas massacre, antisemitism on college campuses has risen dramatically. Moderated by Naomi Ravick, Acting Director of Operations, AJC Alexander Young Leadership Department, student leaders from the AJC Campus Global Board give their first-hand perspective on the challenges facing Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus.

The majority of American Jews are not running from, but rather embracing their Jewish identity and support for Israel. That is one of the key overarching takeaways from American Jewish Committee's (AJC) 2024 Survey of American Jewish Opinion. Despite – or perhaps due to– record levels of antisemitic hate in the U.S., the survey found deepening connections between American Jews, their Jewish identity, and the State of Israel.

In the AJC Global Forum 2024 Opening Plenary, American Jewish Committee (AJC) began by honoring those we lost on and since October 7 – the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust – and we heard from H.E. Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel, on the importance of Israeli resilience.

When it comes to advocating for Israel and the Jewish people, no one is louder, prouder, and more outspoken than Aviva Klompas, Boundless Israel Co-Founder, and Michael Rapaport, Actor and Comedian.

Following Hamas’ brutal massacre on October 7, antisemitism has risen to distressing levels around the world. At this unprecedented time, American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people, has brought together Jewish communities worldwide in a united Global Call to Action Against Antisemitism.

AJC CEO Ted Deutch was joined at the opening plenary of AJC Global Forum 2024 by 28 Jewish leaders from around the world to announce AJC’s Global Call to Action Against Antisemitism.

At AJC Global Forum 2024, world leaders from Africa, Europe, and North and South America joined a panel moderated by Melanie Maron Pell, AJC Chief Field Operations Officer, to address the dangerous rise in antisemitism over the last eight months.

On July 18, 1994, Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terror group, bombed AMIA, the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than 30 years later, it remains the deadliest antisemitic attack outside Israel since the Holocaust.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) honored Zvi Reder, a paramedic with Magen David Adom, who treated wounded civilians fleeing from the Supernova music festival.

In a special video address to AJC Global Forum 2024, Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked AJC advocates and experts for their unwavering support of Israel on and since October 7.

AJC President Michael Tichnor welcomed more than 2,000 people from over 50 countries to Washington, D.C., for AJC Global Forum 2024.