Mideast Briefing: New Fatah Charter's Disappointments
"For the pessimist there is that worrying revolutionary rhetoric of an 'Arab Palestine'; no mention of peace or the two-state solution; and the lack of key oversight components that are crucial for any good-governance party that seeks to bring independence, peace and prosperity to Palestine," writes AJC's Ed Rettig. READ BRIEFING
AJC Op-ed: Gays And YU -
The Controversy's Deeper Significance
"Will Orthodox Judaism be open to dissenting opinions and inclusive of all Jews, or closed-minded and dismissive of anything with which it disagrees?" writes AJC's Steven Bayme in the Jewish Week.READ
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Coming up
AJC's Bridging America Project Taskforce round table discussions
Feb. 16 and March 2
Past President's meeting, Wed., Feb. 10 at 8 am
AJC delegation meeting with French Consul General
Thurs., Feb. 11
AJC Houston presents at
Yom Limmud
Sunday, Feb. 14
Iran & The Middle East at 12 noon
Jewish Ethics and Immigration Reform
at 1 pm
Thursday, Feb. 25
Annual Consular Corps Luncheon
featuring
AJC's Jason Isaacson
Four Seasons Hotel Houston
For information
Thursday evening,
Feb. 25
Private parlor discussion with Jason Isaacson
Friday morning,
Feb. 26
at 7:45 am
Private parlor discussion with Jason Isaacson
Wednesday evening,
March 24
AJC Houston Institute of Human Relations Award dinner
honoring
Don Woo
at the Omni Houston Hotel
featuring
a discussion with
Charles Foster and Dr. Steve Murdock on immigration and diversity.
For information
March 18 at 8:15 am and
Apr 22 at 11:45 am.
AJC NATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING
APRIL 28-30
GRAND HYATT
WASHINGTON, DC
Israel: Shaping the Future
Mon., May 17
Executive Committee
March 4
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AJC Radio Message: U.S. Dependence on Energy Extending to China?
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Roundtable discussions begin
The Challenges and Priorities of immigration reform were the focus of the first of three task force roundtable discussions this week. Dr. Stephen Klineberg provided a historical perspective of Houston's immigration trends and what the City's future in the short and long term will be. The task force discussions, which are part of AJC's Bridging America Project that is funded by the Ford Foundation, brings together business, faith, ethnic, law enforcement,
education and community leaders.
Participants from Houston's diverse communities include: Steve Amstutz; Bob Borochoff; Laura Boston Beto Cardenas; Reverend Mike Cole;
The Honorable Garnet Coleman; Most Reverend Joseph Fiorenza; Charles Foster; Adrian Garcia
Commissioner Sylvia Garcia; Dr. Fena Garza
Benito Juarez;Dr. Hamid Kantara; Dr. Stephen Klineberg; Dawn Lin
Jorge Mancilla; Stan Marek; Rabbi Steve Morgen; Dr. Steve Murdock; Dan Perales;
Bishop Mike Rinehart;
Dinesh Shah; Richard Shaw; Martin Siegel
Daniel Stoecker; The Honorable Sylvester Turner; and John Wilburn.
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AJC Partners with IsraAID in Haiti Earthquake Relief
AJC has raised more than $275,000 to date for specialist teams from Israel's leading relief organization, IsraAID, who are working with the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. CNN recently cited the Israeli medical teams efforts. Please give now.
Political analysts, diplomats, journalists, Barak headline AJC annual meeting
AJC Hurricane Katrina Fund Builds Center at Dillard University
Dillard University dedicated its new Distance Learning Center in honor of the American Jewish Committee (AJC). The video-conference center, located in the Alexander Library, was built with funds provided by AJC after Hurricane Katrina. READ
UN Human Rights Council's Rogues' Gallery of Advisors
Ali Hassan Majeed, the Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali" for ordering poison-gas attacks on Kurdish civilians, was hanged in Baghdad after a special tribunal handed him his fourth death sentence. Meanwhile, at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last Monday, Halima Warzazi, the woman who presonally shielded the Saddam regime from international censure over these gas attacks was seated as Chair of the 47-nation body's Advisory Committee. READ
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OUTREACH
AJC is actively engaged in the domestic and international scene as a GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY organization.
Twenty members of Houston's Diplomatic Corps have already confirmed their participation in AJC Houston's Annual Consular Corps Luncheon on Feb. 25. For more information on this event, please
AJC Houston's Norway Consular Corps team will participate in a small discussion next week with the Deputy Chiefs of Mission of the embassies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Ambassador Cynthia Perry, Honorary Consul General of Rawanda, met with AJC this week to discuss the upcoming Houston visit of the Rawandan President.
Dalit Horn, Assistant Director of AJC's Belfer Center for American Pluralism, met with board members to discus AJC's Bridging America Project and immigration reform. Participants included: Stephen Kaufman, Ann Kasman, Ira Shepard, Ben Samuels, Richard Shaw, Martin Siegel, Tracy Stein and staff. Samuels and Shaw are members of AJC's National Immigration Taskforce.
Thank you to Ilene Kramer, Ann Kasman and Carole Emery for their outreach to the board for the Consular Corps Luncheon and the evening parlor discussion with Jason Isaacson; and to Syma Levy, Ellen Grabois and Deisi Blankfeld for their outreach to the Diplomatic Corps.
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AJC seeks a secure Jewish future
in a more just world.
We maintain offices across the
United States and around the
world, and partnerships with
Jewish communities abroad.
AJC:
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Builds Bridges
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Advances Security
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Promotes Human Rights
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Supports Israel
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Strengthens Jewish Life
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