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

tags	category	summary	start	location
Organization Jewish USA	Private Organization	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.	1906	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

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