This week on AJC Passport, AJC Jerusalem Director Avital Leibovich and Jerusalem Post Chief Political Correspondent Gil Hoffman join us to discuss the rocket bombardment on southern Israel and the political fallout of the week’s events.
AJC Europe Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, Polish Foreign Minister (2007-2014) and Member of European Parliament Radosław Sikorski, POLITICO Chief Europe Correspondent Matt Karnitschnig, and Atlantic Council Eurasia Center nonresident fellow Vladislav Davidzon provided an in-depth discussion of current events in Ukraine and of Russia's sweeping invasion that threatens to crush the sovereignty of a nation and destroy the post-Soviet European order.
Ruth Krall’s earliest childhood memory is of her father searching for the family he lost after he
immigrated to the U.S. His 44 relatives in Poland were likely burned inside a synagogue. Krall
calculates how many cousins she might have by now and shares how “the family that never had
a chance” inspires her to fight antisemitism and nurture a growing family.
In a special address to AJC Global Forum 2023, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff delivered a message of thanks to American Jewish Committee and AJC CEO Ted Deutch for their leadership in the fight against antisemitism.
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA), the first millennial Senator and the first Jewish member of the Senate from Georgia, joins us to honor Jewish American Heritage Month. He shares his family's survival against antisemitism and his efforts to combat it today through his work.