AJC Seattle, in partnership with API and the US-India Security Council, hosted The Strategic, Trilateral Relationship Between the U.S., India and Israel with Representative Adam Smith, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
In this week's AJC Shabbat Table, we contemplate what the Torah's prohibition against eating storks can teach us about compassion for those outside our immediate circles and we celebrate the birthday of Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv by remembering its idealistic Zionist founders who dreamed of building a modern Hebrew city.
Amid a global pandemic and a historic shift in relations between Arab nations and Israel, American Jewish Committee continued its tradition of inviting ambassadors, diplomats, and local leaders to Passover Seders around the world.
In this week’s Shabbat Table, we consider how the bravery that led Nachshon ben Aminadav to wade into the Red Sea, bringing about God's parting of the waters can inspire today’s activists. We also remember the Jewish American patriot Haym Salomon who helped finance the American revolution against England.
In this week's AJC Shabbat Table, we discuss how matza is more than a bread of affliction, but a bread of transition from slavery to freedom, symbolic of where we are now in our journey from lockdown to normalcy. We also recall the conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of espionage and the impact that had on American Jewry.