AJC Global Forum, the premier global Jewish advocacy gathering of the year, returned to Washington, D.C., June 2-4, 2019. Over 2,000 participants from more than 50 countries made this one of the largest AJC Global Forums ever.
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At the event unveiling the groundbreaking Community of Conscience initiative, the invocation was delivered by Reverend Eric Manning of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston and Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Mithal Jamal Al-Alusi, a member of Iraqi Parliament from 2006-10 and from 2014-18, received the AJC 2019 Jan Karski Award for his defense of the Jewish people.
In a live recording of AJC’s Passport podcast from AJC Global Forum 2019 in Washington, D.C., host Seffi Kogen interviewed two of the members of British Parliament, Joan Ryan and Ian Austin, who left the Labour party due to concerns over antisemitism.
At AJC Global Forum 2019 in Washington, D.C., Halie Soifer, Executive Director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America and Matt Brooks, Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, provide passionate arguments for why their respective parties can serve as a political home for American Jews.
While AJC has charted the shifting opinions of U.S. Jews for decades, and last year also polled Israeli Jews, the 2019 surveys convey a uniquely trifocal view of what Jews think in its first-ever concurrent surveys of Jewish opinion in three countries, on three continents - the U.S., Israel, and France.