American Jewish Committee

===Anti-Communism===

The Rosenberg case severely alarmed the AJC, alongside other Jewish organizations. The AJC supported the execution of [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Feffer |first=Andrew |author-link= |date=2019 |title=Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fIuUDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22judenrat%22+%22rosenberg%22+%22American+Jewish+Committee%22&pg=PT281 |location=The Bronx |publisher=Fordham University Press |page= |isbn=9780823281176}}
</ref> During the [[Second Red Scare]], the AJC sent a representative to testify before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]], emphasizing that "Judaism and Communism are utterly incompatible." The AJC cooperated with HUAC by sharing their files with the committee. The organization also employed a staff member to investigate alleged Communist infiltration among the Jewish community.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite web|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/julius-and-ethel-rosenberg/ |title=Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |publisher=My Jewish Learning |accessdate=2023-03-31}}</ref> In 1950, AJC chairman of the executive committee [[Irving M. Engel]] said that "loyalty to the fundamental basis of Judaism requires all Jews to stand with the vanguard in the struggle against totalitarianism. Our attitude as Americans...should be positive and vigorous against communism. Let all of us lead the attack against this common foe of America."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/american-jewish-committee-calls-for-fight-on-communism-as-part-of-civil-rights-drive |title=American Jewish Committee Calls for Fight on Communism As Part of Civil Rights Drive |publisher=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |accessdate=2023-04-01}}</ref> Writing from [[Sing Sing]], Julius Rosenberg charged that "self-appointed leaders of Jewish organizations" were behaving like an "American [[Judenrat]]", accusing the AJC's Solomon Andhil Fineberg of spreading a false rumor that the Rosenbergs believed they were being prosecuted because they were Jewish.<ref>{{cite book |last=Meeropol |first=Michael |author-link= |date=1994 |title=The Rosenberg Letters: A Complete Edition of the Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84suAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22American+Jewish+Committee%22+%22American+Judenrat%22&pg=PA491 |location=New York, London |publisher=Routledge |page=491 |isbn=9781135791148}}
</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bennett |first=David Harry |author-link= |date=1988 |title=The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mH_zVWsUzlUC&dq=%22American+Jewish+Committee%22+%22American+Judenrat%22&pg=PA292 |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |page=292 |isbn=9780807817728}}
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