The_Info_Web/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/American Jewish Committee.md

13 lines
No EOL
668 B
Markdown

---
tags:
- Organization
- Jewish
- USA
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "The American Jewish Committee is a Jewish advocacy organization in the United States. In 1933, Lewis L."
---
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.