American Jewish Committee

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1 Funding
2 Overseas offices/international affiliates
- 2.1 Affiliated or AJC-instigated projects
- 2.2 International partners
3 Principals
4 AJC experts
5 Contact details
6 Resources

Funding

In 2006, the Committee received a $2 million grant from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation for their work over the next ten years. [1]

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Overseas offices/international affiliates

The AJC operates a network of front groups and in tandem with affiliated organisations.

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Affiliated or AJC-instigated projects

Africa Institute
Asia and Pacific Rim Institute ^[2]
Belfer Center for American Pluralism (source: AJC News Update #217)
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights^[3]
Commentary Magazine AJC's flagship publication, considered "the intellectual home of the neoconservative movement".
Friedrich Naumann Foundation (source: AJC News Update #217)
The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (Source: AJC News Update #219)
Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Affairs (source: AJC News Update #212)
Latino and Latin American Institute^[4]
Lawrence & Lee Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations Berlin
Project Interchange [5]
Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations
Transatlantic Institute Brussels
UN Watch Geneva

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International partners

Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)[6]
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)[7]
Shalom (Organization of Jews in Bulgaria)
Comité Representativo de las Entidades Judías en Chile (CREJ)
Centro Israelita Sionista de Costa Rica (CISCR)[8]
Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic
Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania (FEDROM) (Source: AJC Update 213)
Conseil des Communautés Israelites du Maroc (CCIM)
Tribuna Israelita (TI)
Comite Central de la Comunidad Judia de Mexico [9]
Asociación Judía del Peru
Association of Religious Jewish Communities of Poland
Union of Jewish Religious Communities in the Slovak Republic (UZZNO)
Federacion de Comunidades Israelitas de España (FCIE)
Communaute Juive de Tunisie (CJT)
Turkish Jewish Community (TJC)
Confederación de Asociaciones Israelitas de Venezuela (CAIV)
European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC)[10]
European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS)[11]

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Principals

David A. Harris - Executive Director
Robert E. Goodkind - President
Shula Bahat - Associate Executive Director
Ann Schaffer - Director, Belfer Center for American Pluralism
Felice D. Gaer - Director, Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
Steven Bayme - Director, Contemporary Jewish Life
Noam Marans(Rabbi) - Associate Director, Contemporary Jewish Life
Jeffrey Sinensky - Director, Domestic Policy
Kenneth Stern, Program Specialist on anti-Semitism and Extremism, Domestic Policy
Rabbi David Rosen - International Director of the Department of Interreligious Affairs & Director of the Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding, Interreligious Affairs
David Elcott - U.S. Director of Interreligious Affairs
Eran Lerman - Director, Jerusalem Office
Beit Moses, Middle East Office of the AJC
Dina Siegel Vann - Director, Latin American Affairs
Jacob Kovadloff - Consultant, Latin American Affairs
Yehudit Barsky - Director, Middle East and International Terrorism
Jason Isaacson - Director, Office of Government and International Affairs
Aaron Jacob - Associate Director of International Affairs
Richard Foltin - Legislative Director and Counsel, Office of Government and International Affairs
Barry Jacobs - Director of Strategic Studies, Office of Government and International Affairs
Stanislaw Krajewski AJC Poland office
Andrew Baker (Rabbi) - Director of International Jewish Affairs
Roselyn Bell - Director, Publications
Deidre Berger - Director, Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations, Berlin
David Singer - Director, Research
Sam Kliger - Director, Russian Affairs
Rebecca Neuwirth - Director of Special Projects

--AJC Principals (July 5, 2006)-- Contains members found in other listings too.

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AJC experts

Anti-Semitism

Kenneth Stern, expert on anti-Semitism and extremism

Energy Independence

Richard Foltin, director of legislative affairs

Green Building Efforts

Benjamin Tressler, manager of AJC’s Green Building Project

International Affairs

Jason Isaacson, director of the office of government and international affairs
Aaron Jacob, associate director of international affairs (Hebrew)
Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs
Emanuele Ottolenghi, director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Institute (French, Hebrew and Italian)
Deidre Berger, director of Berlin office (German)
Barry Jacobs, director of strategic studies (Greek)

Intergroup Relations

Ann Schaffer, director of the Belfer Center for American Pluralism

Interreligious Affairs

Rabbi David Rosen, international director of interreligious affairs (Hebrew)
Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, U.S. director for interreligious affairs

Israel

Eran Lerman, director of Israel/Middle East office (Hebrew)
Rabbi Edward Rettig, associate director of Israel/Middle East office (Hebrew)
Laurie Wexler, director of Project Interchange
Jason Isaacson, director of government and international affairs
Shula Bahat, associate executive director (Hebrew)

Jewish Life

Steven Bayme, director of the Contemporary Jewish Life (Hebrew)
Rabbi Noam Marans, associate director of Contemporary Jewish Life (Hebrew)

Latin American and Latino Affairs

Dina Siegel Vann, director of Latino and Latin American Institute, (Spanish)
Jacob Kovadloff, Latin American Affairs (Spanish)

Legal Affairs and Domestic Policy

Richard Foltin, director of Legislative Affairs
Jeffrey Sinensky, general counsel and director of domestic policy
Kara Stein, associate director for domestic policy and legal affairs

Russian Jewish Community

Sam Kliger, director of Russian Jewish Community Affairs (Russian)

Terrorism and Extremism

Yehudit Barsky, director of division on Middle East and International Terrorism (Hebrew and Arabic)

United Nations

Felice Gaer, director of the Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch
Jason Issacson, director of government and international affairs
Aaron Jacob, associate director of international affairs (Hebrew)

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