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AJC Mideast Briefing: "The Man Who Targeted the Two Victims Targeted All of Us"
On August 1, a man and a woman-26-year old Nir Katz, a counselor, and 16-year-old Liz Trubeishi-were gunned down, and a dozen others wounded in a shooting attack carried out by a lone gunman at a support center for gay teens in Tel-Aviv. READ BRIEFING
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Coming up
Saturday- Sunday,
August 29-30
Mexican-American Emerging Leaders Workshop
Sunday, Aug. 30
10:15 am to 12:30 pm
Diplomatic training and board briefing with Dina Siegel Vann, AJC's Latin American Institute director
Sunday, Sept. 13
media and
advocacy workshop
for Latino organizations
America's Table
Friday, Nov. 20
AJC Consular Corps Chanukah Party
Thurs., Dec. 3
at 7 pm
AJC's Max Nathan Award Dinner
honoring
Joe Williams
Thurs., Dec. 10
at the Omni Houston Hotel
Board Meetings
Sept. 17 at 11:45 am featuring Dr. Steve Murdock, former US Census czar and professor of sociology at Rice;
Oct. 15 at 8:15 am
Jan. 21 at 11:45 am; March 18 at 8:15 am and
Apr 22 at 11:45 am.
AJC NATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING
APRIL 28-30
GRAND HYATT
WASHINGTON, DC
Chapter Annual meeting Mon., May 17
Executive Committee
Sept 3; Nov. 5; Jan. 7 and
March 4
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UN Watch Open Letter
to Mary Robinson
"Mrs. Robinson, let's be honest: no one has bullied you, and you are not being vilified by false accusations," writes UN Watch, AJC's Geneva-based affiliate, in an open letter to Mary Robinson, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, who is set to receive the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. "Instead, facts were presented and issues raised concerning your 1997-2002 tenure as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights." READ LETTER
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AJC Meets President Mubarak
AJC President Richard Sideman led an AJC delegation in a Jewish leadership meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Washington, D.C. AJC's last private meeting with the Egyptian leader was in Cairo in 2008. In other Washington meetings, the AJC delegation conferred privately with senior U.S. State Department and White House officials involved in Arab-Israeli peace efforts, diplomats from the Middle East and South Asia, and political analysts.
AJC to Yale: Protect Academic Freedom, Don't Censor in Response to Intimidation
AJC expressed dismay at Yale University Press' decision, as reported in the August 13 edition of the New York Times, to retreat from long-established principles of academic freedom by censoring illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad from Jytte Klausen's new book, The Cartoons That Shook The World.READ LETTER
AJC Radio Message: Democrats, Republicans Agree on Israel
Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much these days, but when the issue is Israel there is bipartisan accord, says AJC Executive Director David Harris in his national radio commentary. Harris commentary can be heard mornings on KTRH740 AM.VIEW COMMENTARY
AJC Project Interchange Brings African Leaders to Israel
A high-profile delegation from Rwanda and Uganda is in Israel this week on a Project Interchange (PI) seminar. During the five-day mission, the East African leaders are meeting with Israeli government officials, NGO directors, academics and leaders of industry to explore opportunities in bilateral trade, development and medicine. They are visiting, among other sites, an Israeli-Ethiopian orphan youth village which serves as the prototype for a similar program in Rwanda. Eliseo Neuman, Director of AJC's Africa Institute, is accompanying the delegation.
U.S. Ambassador to UN Meets AJC
An AJC leadership team met with Dr. Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN and a member of the Obama Cabinet. The hour-long discussion focused on the U.S. agenda at the UN, obstacles to full Israeli participation in the world body, the Human Rights Council, Iran and Lebanon.
AJC Co-Sponsors Christian Leadership Initiative
AJC and the Shalom Hartman Institute completed a 13-month educational program for influential Catholic and Mainline Protestant denominational and institutional leaders, including seminary presidents, deans and bishops. "The Christian Leadership Initiative was among the most profound interfaith experiences of my life," said the Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, President of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ.
AJC Joins Argentine Commemoration of AMIA Attack
Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC's Latino and Latin American Institute, attended in Buenos Aires the 15th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the AMIA building. Since the 1994 bombing, which killed 85, AJC has played an active advocacy and diplomatic role in supporting the investigation of the attack. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who addressed AJC's 2008 Annual Meeting, addressed this week's commemoration. AMIA is an AJC international partner.
Europe's Emerging Leaders to visit Houston
"Promoting Tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe" is a joint program of AJC and the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation, which endeavors to identify emerging leaders and opinion-shapers in the new democracies of Europe and Eurasia. The program's objective is to introduce the participants to American initiatives aimed at fostering pluralism and respect for diversity in the United States. Part of the delegation representing countries in Central and Eastern Europe will visit Houston in mid November.
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Behind the Scenes
AJC is actively engaged in the domestic and international scene as a GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY organization.
Fred Zeidman, Tracy and Gary Stein, and Randy Czarlinsky met with Don Woo, president, Mission Contractors, to request the opportunity to bestow the AJC Houston Institute of Human Relations Award to him this Spring. Mr. Woo, who has been engaged in a number of Greater Houston community endeavors and whose company has built a number of the Jewish community's institutions, agreed to accept the honor.
Richard Shaw and Barbara Shepard participated in the Greater Houston Partnership's Immigration Task Force that discussed immigration reform legislation. The Task Force was also informed of AJC's planned Latino media advocacy workshop.
Mexican Consulate officials, Tracy Stein, Randy Czarlinsky and Barbara Shepard met to discuss corporate and immigration issues this week.
David Barish participated in the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee of the City's International Committee.
Dena Palermo, International VP, Iris Mushin, International chair, Jack Lascar, president elect, and Tracy Stein, president, met with staff this week to finalize consular corps teams before the August 30 diplomatic briefing and training with Dina Siegel Vann.
Special thanks to David Barish, Fred Zeidman and Gary Stein for discussing AJC Houston with me this week.
We are reaching out to the Mayoral candidates to have separate conversations with each of them on AJC related issues.
Best regards,
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Randy Czarlinsky
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