AJC supported social science research into the causes of and cures for prejudice, and forged alliances with other ethnic, racial and religious groups.

After the meeting, the Japanese American National Museum and the AJC issued a joint statement ( which was included in the exhibit ) that read in part:

In 2001 the AJC initiated a new project designed to advance understanding between Muslims and Jews by publishing two books: Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims, by Professor Reuven Firestone, a scholar of Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, was written to describe Judaism to Muslims ; Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews, by professor Khalid Duran, was written to describe Islam for Jews.

James White ( 1828 – 1890 ), owner of Kirkham Stud, was one of the most successful owner / breeders in Australian racing with his horses winning two Melbourne Cups, six VRC Derbies and five AJC Derbies.

In 1962 Betty Lane applied to the AJC for a metropolitan trainer's licence but was refused as “ it's not our policy to licence women .” After the refusal she became a successful premiership winning trainer in the Western Districts of NSW, where she was permitted to train.

The copyright was sold in 1910 to the AJC and VRC who now administer matters concerning the breeding of racehorses.

AJC was established in 1906 by a small group of American Jews concerned about pogroms aimed at the Jewish population of Russia.

AJC took the position that prejudice was indivisible, and that the rights of Jews in the United States could be best protected by arguing in favor of the equality of all Americans.

In the 1920s the AJC was concerned with dangers in Poland and Romania, where violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism and the restriction of civil rights made the position of Jews precarious.

Before the Six-Day War in 1967, the AJC was officially " non-Zionist.

In 1950 AJC President Jacob Blaustein reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stating that the political allegiance of American Jews was solely to their country of residence.

In particular, Japan's defection from the boycott was attributed to AJC persuasion.

AJC was active in the campaign to gain emigration rights for Jews living in the Soviet Union and was one of the founders of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry.

Under Executive Director David Harris, who was named to the post in 1990, AJC became increasingly involved in the international arena.

The AJC annual meeting was moved from New York to Washington, D. C., so that more government officials and foreign diplomats might participate, and in 2010 the meeting was renamed the " global forum.

" AJC Executive Director David Harris responded that the statement was intended to preserve the tradition of bipartisan support for Israel and prevent it from becoming " a dangerous political football.

In 2010, Riley was named editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and that paper's editor, Julia Wallace, under whose leadership the AJC won Pulitzer Prizes in 2006 and 2007, moved to Dayton to become Senior Vice President of news and programming for CMG Ohio heading a new combined newspaper, television and radio newsroom.

Trained by John Hawkes, Octagonal made his debut late in 1994, and was crowned the Australian Champion Two Year Old on the strength of his autumn campaign, which comprised wins in the Todman Trial and AJC Sires Produce Stakes and close seconds in the STC Golden Slipper and AJC Champagne Stakes.

At his final start, he was runner-up in the AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes ; a feat coincidently emulated in the farewell of his champion son, Lonhro, seven years later.

Instead of pressing on to the Sydney carnival Lonhro was spelled as another near black Woodlands colt called Viscount won the AJC Sires Produce and Champagne Stakes.

From 1906 through 2008 AJC published the American Jewish Yearbook, a highly detailed annual account of Jewish life in the U. S., Israel and the world.

In 2003, AJC opened in Brussels the Transatlantic Institute, aimed at fostering improved relations between Europe, Israel, and the U. S. That same year, it opened a Russian Affairs Division to identify and train new leaders in American Jewish public advocacy.

In 2003, AJC established the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, aimed at fostering improved relations between Europe, Israel, and the U. S. Other offices were opened in Paris, Rome, Mumbai, and São Paulo.

AJC became increasingly involved in the advocacy of energy independence for the U. S. on the grounds that this would reduce dependence on foreign, especially Arab, oil ; boost the American economy ; and improve the environment.

The AJC has participated in interfaith dialogue with the U. S. Bishops ' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

Initially, the American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) and the National Park Service, which manages Ellis Island, objected to the use of the term in the exhibit.

However, during a subsequent meeting held at the offices of the AJC in New York City, leaders representing Japanese Americans and Jewish Americans reached an understanding about the use of the term.

" AJC Executive Director David A. Harris stated during the controversy, " We have not claimed Jewish exclusivity for the term ' concentration camps.

The AJC Band, from Hamilton Air Force Base | Hamilton Field, plays at a war bond rally held at Mare Island on June 26, 1945.

While forcefully speaking out against Islamic anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) has worked since 1985 to enhance relations between Jews and Muslims.

The AJC encourages and engages in dialogue on many levels with like-minded groups committed to fostering tolerance and cooperation.

Rejecting the inevitability of a " clash of civilizations ," AJC has instead insisted on the possibility of a " community of civilizations " by encouraging dialogue on the highest levels with like-minded groups committed to fostering tolerance and cooperation.

For well over a decade, AJC has dedicated itself to forging significant relationships with Arab and Muslim leaders around the world.

AJC has traveled extensively in the Muslim world-from Morocco to Mauritania, through the Middle East and the Gulf states, to Indonesia.

In 1986 the AJC publicly condemned the murder by bomb attack of Alex Odeh ( in Oct. 1985 ), a leader of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Santa Ana, California.

The AJC had a meeting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation director William Webster about this incident ; they urged action to identify and punish those responsible for anti-Arab bigotry.

In 1986 the AJC submitted testimony to the United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, on the topic of violence and discrimination towards Arab-Americans.

In 1991, on the brink of the Allied war against Iraq, the AJC issued a statement warning the public not to engage in discrimination towards American Arabs or Muslims.

From 1992 to 1995 the AJC worked to lobby the United States government to intervene on behalf on Muslims in Bosnia.

In 1993 the AJC sponsored the first national conference on " Muslims and Jews in North America: Past, Present and Future " with the Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies at University of Denver in October.

The third conference had to be canceled, when the AJC could not found Muslim partners who were willing to publicly condemn the current wave of terrorist attacks on Israel.

In 1999 the AJC helped aid Muslims in Kosovo.

The American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) released a report by Rabbi A. James Rudin in 1976 which stated that the Divine Principle contained " pejorative language, stereotyped imagery, and accusations of collective sin and guilt.

" In a news conference by the AJC, and representatives of Catholic and Protestant churches, panelists stated that the text ' contained over 125 anti-Jewish references.

When the Records editor died in 1944, its publisher, the American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) consulted with New York intellectuals including Daniel Bell and literary critic Lionel Trilling.

They recommended the AJC hire Elliot Cohen ( 1899 – 1959 ) to start a new journal.