Advocacy Anywhere

As we grapple with our horror and grief about the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, we find ourselves looking close to home at the educational spaces where our children spend their days. Join AJC's Director of the William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department, Dr. Laura Shaw Frank, and Aaron Bregman, Director of High School Affairs, for a conversation about tools for engaging in productive discussions and making impactful change in your children's schools at this unprecedented time.

Hear from AJC Campus Global Board Members Abe Baker-Butler (Yale), Ryan Kassanoff (American University), Lily Cohen (Northwestern University), and Eliza Ross (University of Chicago) as they share first-hand perspectives on the current situation on university campuses around the country.

Over the weekend, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group controlling the Gaza Strip, launched an unprecedented, horrific, and brutal attack on Israel. Join AJC CEO Ted Deutch, Lt. Col. (res) Avital Leibovich, AJC Jerusalem Director, and Eyal Hulata, Director, National Security Council of Israel (2021-23) for an update on the situation on the ground.

In July, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) passed legislation which would limit the High Court of Israel’s ability to apply a “reasonableness” standard when reviewing certain administrative decisions made by elected officials. In conversation with AJC Board of Governors Chair Bobby Lapin, distinguished Israeli lawyer Lt. Col. (Res.) David Benjamin will provide insightful analysis on the history and effects of the Reasonableness Standard legislation and shed light on its implications for the Israeli legal system.

In celebration of American Jewish Heritage Month, join American Jewish Committee (AJC) and beloved professors and award-winning authors Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman and Dr. Zev Eleff, for a lively conversation about some little known, but incredibly fascinating, moments in American Jewish history.

In celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, join American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Ryan Lavarnway, 15-year Major League Baseball catcher and Team Israel veteran, for a live recording of AJC’s podcast, People of the Pod.

On March 10, regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran announced their agreement to resume diplomatic relations. The biggest surprise was who brokered the deal: China. Long-time China experts Mercy Kuo, Executive Vice President of Pamir Consulting, and Carice Witte, Executive Director of Sino-Israel Global Network and Academic Leadership will join Shira Loewenberg, Director of AJC Asia Pacific Institute in discussing this major development and its impact on the regional and global stage.

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its ruthless attack on Ukraine, challenging both its sovereignty and territorial integrity. After twelve months of this reckless and illegal invasion, what has the international community learned? What’s next as this war enters its second year? Join H.E. Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, and a panel of AJC experts as we mark this anniversary and answer these urgent questions. 

Each day seems to bring more troubling news about the state of antisemitism in America. With all this happening, how are American Jews feeling? Are young American Jews facing antisemitism differently than adults? To help answer these important questions and more, please join Holly Huffnagle, AJC U.S. Director for Combating Antisemitism, Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman, AJC Senior Director of the Alexander Young Leadership Department, and Melanie Maron Pell, AJC Chief Field Operations Officer.

In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join American Jewish Committee (AJC) for a special live recording of AJC’s podcast, People of the Pod, with Holocaust survivor Sam Harris who shares how he and two sisters, Jewish children in Poland under Nazi occupation, managed to survive even after the rest of his family was murdered in Treblinka.

As Russia’s war on Ukraine grinds through its eighth month, the toll of destruction and human suffering adds to a long record of brutality and corruption under Vladimir Putin. Join American Jewish Committee (AJC), in conversation with Hermitage Capital Management founder and CEO Bill Browder, perhaps the Kremlin strongman’s most informed, relentless, and endangered non-Russian critic, for a timely examination of Putin's murderous regime.

On October 1, 2022, Ted Deutch began his tenure as AJC CEO. After more than 12 years as a Member of Congress, where he was a champion on issues of concern to the Jewish community, Ted comes to American Jewish Committee excited to advance our mission. Tune in to welcome Ted to AJC and hear his vision for the future.

On Friday, August 5, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Breaking Dawn in response to days of threats from the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad that it would attack Israel. During this operation, several terror targets in the northern Gaza Strip were struck and killed. Join American Jewish Committee (AJC) for an on-the-ground briefing with AJC Jerusalem Director Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Leibovich.

In the mid-20th century, more than 800,000 Jews left or were driven from their homes in Arab nations and Iran, but their stories often go untold. Join us as we celebrate the series premiere of The Forgotten Exodus, with host Manya Brachear Pashman and cartoonist and musician Carol Isaacs who will share more about her family’s flight from Iraq as captured in her graphic memoir and animated film, The Wolf of Baghdad.

Amid rising tensions with Iran, recognition that the U.S.-Saudi relationship needs to be reset, deepening Israeli-Palestinian distrust, and dissolution of the year-old Israeli coalition government, President Biden will soon be making his first visit as President to the Middle East, with consultations and special events in Israel, the West Bank, and Saudi Arabia. What can be reasonably expected of the President’s trip?

In commemoration of Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah), join American Jewish Committee (AJC) and hear from Eva Lichtenberg – Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and Jewish advocate – who emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1941 after losing everything and everyone. Her story is one you don’t want to miss.

In February 2022, American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveyed nearly 2,000 American and Israeli millennial Jews with the goal of better understanding their experiences, attitudes, and opinions about Jewish identity, connection to Israel, and attachment to one another. Join AJC ACCESS Global Director Dana Steiner, AJC ACCESS Israel Manager Lironne Koret, and Opinion, Analytics, and Communications Strategist Philippe Assouline, as they unpack this data and analyze what it all means for the Jewish community.

David Harris has revolutionized what it means to be an advocate for world Jewry, and under his leadership AJC has become the most influential and transformational force advancing Jewish interests throughout the world. Join us to hear first-hand the highlights and lessons learned from David's decades-long experience of global Jewish advocacy.

For the past 40 years, AJC CEO David Harris has been a leading advocate for strengthening Israel’s place in the community of nations, deepening ties with key countries, and advancing Israel’s quest for enduring peace and security. Tune in to hear David discuss why Israel is central to the Jewish people, AJC, and Jewish advocacy.

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.