He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

Category: Jewish American writers

* 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founder of the Jewish Defense League ( d. 1990 )

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972 ) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

Category: Jewish American writers

Category: Jewish American writers

Category: American people of Jewish descent

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Category: American people of Jewish descent

Category: Jewish American sportspeople

Category: American people of Jewish descent

* Commentary ( magazine ), a US public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee

Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).

The adoption of the radical Pittsburgh Platform in 1885, which dismissed observance of the ritual commandments and Jewish peoplehood as " anachronistic ", created a permanent wedge between the Reform movement and more traditional American Jews.

Conservative Judaism enjoyed rapid growth in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the largest American Jewish denomination.

After a substantial gift from Los Angeles philanthropist Ruth Ziegler, a new rabbinical school was formed at the American Jewish University ( then University of Judaism ) in Bel Air, California.

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University

* The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, at the non-denominational American Jewish University in Los Angeles ;

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism maintains the Solomon Schecter Day Schools, comprising 76 day schools in 19 American states and two Canadian provinces serving Jewish children.

* American Jewish University

** Amicus Brief on the Merits ( American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America )

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

Preparation of a second edition is in progress under the sponsorship of the Crystal Data Committee of the American Crystallographic Association.

The first was the American NTSC ( National Television Systems Committee ) color television system.

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

The South American Classification Committee has removed the New World Vultures from Ciconiiformes and instead placed them in Incertae sedis, but notes that a move to Falconiformes or Cathartiformes is possible.

" In addition, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs states as some of its jurisdictional goals: " export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware ; measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business abroad ; international commodity agreements ; international education ; and protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation.

In 1917, a Committee on Statistics from what is now known as the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals called the " Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane ", which included 22 diagnoses.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U. S. Congress.

The European Parliament's Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System stated: " It seems likely, in view of the evidence and the consistent pattern of statements from a very wide range of individuals and organisations, including American sources, that its name is in fact ECHELON, although this is a relatively minor detail.

" Jerome Robbins, in his PBS American Experience biography, claimed that he was forced to capitulate to the House Un-American Activities Committee, identifying eight Communist sympathizers and disgracing himself among his fellow artists, allegedly because Sullivan threatened to reveal Robbins's homosexuality to the public.

* 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

The federation had external ties with the World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ), the Permanent Congress for Latin American Workers Trade Union Unity ( Congreso Permanente de Unidad Sindical de Trabajadores de América Latina — CPUSTAL ), and the Central American Committee of Trade Union Unity ( Comité de Unidad Sindical de Centroamérica — CUSCA ).

The Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century ( 2003 ) report by the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association

He used a newly formed Quaker organization, the American Friends Service Committee, to carry out much of the logistical work in Europe.

The American Ornithologists ' Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature has said it is not yet ready to list the American and Cuban as separate species.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

The American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) is a Jewish advocacy group.

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

The AJC did not want the American public to envision American Jewry as a foreign culture transplanted artificially to American shores.

In 1914 AJC helped create the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to aid Jewish victims of World War I, and would later play an instrumental role in aiding Jewish victims of World War II and the Holocaust.

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.

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.

Each year AJC releases a " Survey of American Jewish Opinion " that monitors the attitudes of American Jews on issues of concern.

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.

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 1998, AJC became the first American Jewish organization to establish a full-time presence in Germany, opening an office in Berlin.

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.

In October 2011, AJC issued a joint statement with the Anti-Defamation League urging American Jews to support a Joint Unity Pledge stating: " America's friendship with Israel is an emotional, moral and strategic bond that has always transcended politics.

The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein's Speech " The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews " Given to the Baltimore Chapter, American Jewish Committee, February 15, 1948 ( 2011 ), 212 pp. Includes full text of speech, and some history of AJC perspective on Palestine and Israel.

Jews against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties ( 1997 ), covers AJC and other groups including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress