American Jewish Committee Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Notable people== ===Presidents=== * [[Mayer Sulzberger]] (1906β1912), also co-founder * [[Louis Marshall|Louis B. Marshall]] (1912β1929), also co-founder * [[Cyrus Adler]] (1929β1940), also co-founder * [[Sol M. Stroock]] (1941) * [[Maurice Wertheim]] (1941β1943) * [[Joseph M. Proskauer]] (1943β1949), also co-founder * [[Jacob Blaustein]] (1949β1954) * [[Irving M. Engel]] (1954β1959) * [[Herbert B. Ehrmann]] (1959β1961) * [[Frederick F. Greenman]] (1961) * [[Louis Caplan (lawyer)|Louis Caplan]] (1961β1962) * [[A. M. Sonnabend]] (1962β1964) * [[Morris B. Abram]] (1964β1968) * [[Arthur Goldberg|Arthur J. Goldberg]] (1968β1969) * [[Philip E. Hoffman]] (1969β1973) * [[Elmer Winter|Elmer L. Winter]] (1973β1977) * [[Richard Maass]] (1977β1980) * [[Maynard Wishner|Maynard I. Wishner]] (1980β1983) * [[Howard I. Friedman]] (1983β1986) * [[Theodore Ellenoff]] (1986β1989) * [[Sholom D. Comay]] (1986β1991) * [[Alfred H. Moses]] (1991β1994) * [[Robert S. Rifkind]] (1995β1998) * [[Bruce M. Ramer]] (1998β2001) * [[Harold Tanner]] (2001β2004) * [[E. Robert Goodkind]] (2004β2007)<ref>{{cite book|last=Sanua|first=Marianne R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5p_MhA5shT4C&pg=PA399|title=Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006|year=2007|page=399|publisher=[[University Press of New England|Brandeis University Press]]|isbn=978-1-58465-631-9}}</ref> * [[Richard Sideman]] (2007β2010) * [[Robert Elman]] (2010β2013) * [[Stanley M. Bergman]] (2013β2016) * [[John Shapiro]] (2016β2019) * [[Harriet Schleifer]] (2019β2022) * [[Michael L. Tichnor]] (2022β) ===Other key people=== *[[Steven Bayme]], former Director of Jewish Communal Affairs *[[Elliot E. Cohen]], former Editor-in-Chief of ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'' *[[Felice D. Gaer]], Director of AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights *[[Laurie Ann Goldman]], former board member *[[Jerry Goodman (activist)|Jerry Goodman]], former Director for European Affairs *[[David Harris (advocate)|David Harris]], executive director in 1990-2022 *[[Monika Krajewska]], recipient of AJC Lifetime Achievement Award *[[Avital Leibovich]], Director of AJC in Israel *[[Ted Deutch]], former member of [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and current CEO of AJC *[[Samuel D. Leidesdorf]], former board member and AJC Herbert H. Lehman Human Relations Award recipient *[[John T. Pawlikowski]], AJC Chicago Distinguished Service Award recipient *[[Norman Podhoretz]], former Editor-in-Chief of ''Commentary'' *[[A. James Rudin]], former Director of Interreligious Affairs *[[Jacob H. Schiff]], co-founder *[[Marc H. Tanenbaum]], Director of Interreligious Affairs and later Director of International Affairs *[[Max Horkheimer]], German sociologist and director of the [[University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research|Institute for Social Research]], assumed the directorship of the Scientific Division of the AJC in 1944.<ref>{{Cite web |title=β¨The Indiana Jewish Post and Opinionβ© {{!}} Page 15 {{!}} 15 September 1944 {{!}} Newspapers {{!}} The National Library of Israel |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/indianajpost/1944/09/15/01/page/15 |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=www.nli.org.il |language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page