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.
In marking today’s 75th anniversary of the rescue of nearly 50,000 members of the Bulgarian Jewish community during the Holocaust, AJC CEO David Harris, who has visited Bulgaria frequently, looks back at the meaning of this extraordinary action and what followed in the decades since.
An AJC leadership delegation has concluded a visit to London and Paris for a series of intensive conversations with government officials and Jewish community leaders on efforts to fight antisemitism and ensure Jewish community security.
Sandberg was the founding director of the AJC Pacific Rim Institute (APRI) in 1989, which later was renamed the Asia Pacific Institute (API), the first of its kind in the American Jewish community.