American Jewish Committee

Jewish creators are fighting antisemitism with humor and truth

Jewish voices around the world are harnessing social media not for fame or fortune but to defend their identity.

Max Cohen, aka Murray Hill Boy, has 155,000 followers on TikTok and 166,000 followers on Instagram. He filters out all hateful messages he receives.
 NYC democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani against backdrop of pro-Palestinian protesters. (illustration)

Mamdani clashes with ADL on who represents Jewish New Yorkers

A view shows the damage at the Holy Family Church which was hit in an Israeli strike on Thursday, in Gaza City July 18, 2025.

American Jewish Committee donates $25K to Gaza church damaged by Israeli strike

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports.

Lithuania scraps planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site


Jewish group launches Arabic-language video series about Judaism

The AJC seeks to directly engage hundreds of millions of Arabic-speakers in the world, "laying the foundation, we hope, for deeper ties between Jews and Arabs in the future," says AJC CEO.

David Harris

Unelected ‘leaders’ can’t represent American Jewry

Among the current leaders of prominent American Jewish or Zionist nonprofit organizations, there are 10 who have held the same position for 30 or more years.

‘WHAT ARE the effects, in Israel, in the US, and the rest of the world, of the perceived opinions of American Jewry?’

On My Mind: Unexpected alliances

“We must learn to work through the tensions that threaten to divide us, so that we can yield the fruit of working on a common agenda,” says Ari Gordon, AJC’s US director of Muslim-Jewish relations.

‘WHAT SEPARATES American Jews and Israel is, well, everything... [yet] we ought to celebrate those differences, not bemoan them.’

How the German Green party made Iranian antisemitism politically correct - analysis

Green party Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth zealously greeted the speaker of Iran’s ersatz parliament, Ali Larijani.

Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth (Green Party), Dagmar Wöhrl (Christian Social Union party) are the two women on the right

Bahrain awarded 'Architect of Peace' award by American Jewish Committee

Bahrain received the award for encouraging understanding and interfaith respect and cooperation.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) during the first Gulf Cooporative Council's (GCC) " GCC British Summit", in Sakhir Palace Bahrain, December 7, 2016.

As UNGA kicks off, AJC launches 'EU recognize Hezbollah as terror org'

The AJC bought a full-page ad in Tuesday's New York Times, which criticizes the EU's distinction between the terror group's military branch and the other parts of the organization.

Lebanon's Hezbollah members hold party flags as they listen to their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressing his supporters via a screen during a rally marking the anniversary of the defeat of militants near the Lebanese-Syrian border, in al-Ain village, Lebanon August 25, 2019.

American Jews decry Trump's comments on 'disloyalty'

Only the Republican Jewish Coalition defended Trump on Tuesday.

With a painting of George Washington in the background, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. August 20, 2019

AJC criticizes Trump for referring to Netanyahu as 'Your prime minister'

"I stood with your prime minister at the White House to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights," Trump told the RJC crowd.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they pose in the Rose Garden at the White House this week

Tlaib starts term in Congress accusing Israel advocates of 'dual loyalty'

Senate has reintroduced legislation from last congress combatting BDS.

Democratic US congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib before Election Day in Michigan, 2018.

We're on the edge of a precipice here

Israel will be abandoned by the majority of American Jews in less than a generation. In less… unless.

Pro-Israel demonstrators chant slogans in New York City in 2015. One segment of American Jewry that has drawn closer to Israel these past 50 years is the 10% who are Orthodox