AJC condemns the unconscionable separation of nearly 2,000 children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks and urges immediate congressional action to change the administration’s policy.
AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, welcomes today’s action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law.
Mayors of Polish cities, attending an AJC Central Europe and City of Warsaw conference on combating hate, have issued a joint statement urging implementation of a policy of “zero tolerance for prejudice, xenophobia and antisemitism.”
Diplomats, Jewish leaders, representatives of New York ethnic and faith groups, and members of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) gathered at the global Jewish advocacy group’s headquarters this morning to memorialize Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Jewish grandmother and Holocaust survivor, who was savagely murdered in her Paris apartment.
AJC has appointed Viktor Melamed the director of its new office in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the global Jewish advocacy organization’s sixth post in Europe.