This Shabbat, I will join some 200 Jews from Egypt, now living in Europe, Israel and the United States, to pray in the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, their childhood house of worship, in Alexandria.
At our inaugural 2020 Global Briefing Series, nearly 300 attendees were briefed by AJC Assistant Director Holly Huffnagle on the history of far right antisemitism. German Consul General Stefan Schneider, a true friend to the Jewish people, discussed extremely concerning trends on antisemitism in Germany and the challenges in confronting them.
US President Donald Trump’s state visit to India, a little more than eight months before he faces the voters in his bid for a second term, is significant not only for what it may yield in enhancing the strategic relationship between sister democracies but for what it says about the rising stature of India and Indian Americans on the US political landscape.