American Jewish Committee
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| Motto | Global Jewish Advocacy |
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| Formation | November 11, 1906 |
| Type | Human rights, civil rights, pro-Israel, human relations |
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| Legal status | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Stanley M. Bergman | |
| David Harris | |
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Director, AJC Jerusalem
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Avital Leibovich |
| Subsidiaries | Thanks to Scandinavia, Institute of Human Relations, Trans-Atlantic Institute, AJC Berlin |
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Revenue (2014)
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$54,782,673 |
| Expenses (2014) | $46,209,859 |
| Endowment | $79,561,265 |
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Employees (2014)
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288 |
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Volunteers (2014)
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1,856 |
| Mission | To safeguard the welfare and security of Jews; to strengthen the basic principles of democracy and pluralism around the world; and to enhance the quality of Jewish life. |
| Website | www |
American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish ethnic advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations and, according to The New York Times, is "widely regarded as the of American Jewish organizations".
Besides working in favor of civil liberties for Jews, the organization has a history of fighting against forms of discrimination in the United States and working on behalf of social equality, such as filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the May 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education and participating in other events in the Civil Rights Movement.
AJC is an international advocacy organization whose key areas of focus is to promote religious and civil rights for Jews internationally.
The organization has 22 regional offices in the United States, 10 overseas offices, and 33 international partnerships with Jewish communal institutions around the world.
AJC's programs and departments include the Africa Institute, the Asia Pacific Institute, the Belfer Center for American Pluralism, the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Contemporary Jewish Life, Government and International Affairs, the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Affairs, Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, the Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute for American Jewish-Israeli Relations, the Latino and Latin American Institute, Project Interchange, the Lawrence and Lee Ramer institute for German-Jewish Relations, Russian Affairs, Thanks to Scandinavia, and the Transatlantic Institute.
On November 11, 1906, 81 Jewish Americans met in the Hotel Savoy in New York City to establish the American Jewish Committee. The group was concerned about pogroms against Jews in the Russian Empire. The official committee statement on the purpose was to "prevent infringement of the civil and religious rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution."
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