---
tags:
  - Organization
  - Jewish
  - USA
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "The American Jewish Committee is a major American Jewish advocacy organization founded in 1906 that appears in this vault through its connections to Israeli nuclear lobbying and U.S. government intelligence figures."
start: 1906
location: "New York City"
---
The American Jewish Committee is a Jewish advocacy organization in the [[United States]]. In 1933, [[Lewis L. Strauss]] was asked by the Committee to attend an international conference in [[London]] on the Jewish plight, where he met [[Chaim Weizmann]] and discussed the need to raise funds for the resettlement of Jews.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.