Greetings!

We are glad to welcome you to the Russian Division of the American Jewish Committee’s website. Here you should find interesting and relevant material in both English and Russian.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was founded in 1906 by a group of influential Jews as a response to the wave of pogroms throughout Russia. Since then, and for the last 100 years, the AJC has stood up for the interests of Jews worldwide, against anti-Semitism, in defense of human rights and democratic principles, and has also supported Israel since its creation.

For many years the AJC has actively fought for immigration rights for Soviet Jews. In 1987, the AJC organized a huge demonstration in Washington in honor of the freedom of Russian Jews. More than 250,000 people, including then-vice president George Bush, gathered for this march, which became the largest in all of American Jewish history.

We hope that you will find many things of interest and use on the Russian Division website. You may acquaint yourself with books, articles, and new analytic works written by David Harris, the executive director of AJC. You may also listen to David’s radio broadcasts in Russian. We will introduce you to our Leadership Training Program, which prepares leaders in the Russian-speaking immigrant community (read about us). This will help you get a picture of our programs and our plans for the future.

More than 175,000 people in the US and around the world are supporting members of the American Jewish Committee. We invite you to engage yourselves by becoming a member of the AJC. The yearly membership fee for Russian-speaking Jews is only 35 dollars.

For more specific information about how to become a member of AJC, or if you have any questions, propositions, ideas or concerns, please email  me.

With best wishes,

Sam Kliger
Director of Russian Jewish Affairs

American Jewish Committee

kligers@ajc.org