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The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish ethnic advocacy group established in 1906.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Modern_History/1700-1914/America_at_the_Turn_of_the_Century/Organizational_Life/American_Jewish_Committee.shtml )〕 It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations in the United States and, according to ''The New York Times'', is "widely regarded as the dean of American Jewish organizations". Besides working in favor of civil liberties for Jews, the organization has a history of fighting against forms of discrimination in the United States and working on behalf of social equality, such as filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the May 1954 case of ''Brown v. Board of Education'' and participating in other events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. ==About== AJC is an international advocacy organization whose key areas of focus is to promote religious and civil rights for Jews internationally.〔〔 The organization's mission statement is: "To enhance the well-being of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://m.ajc.org/site/c.euIRJbNVKlL8G/b.8843637/k.C765/Mission.htm )〕 The organization has 22 regional offices in the United States,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ajc.org/site/c.7oJILSPwFfJSG/b.8467125/k.9F60/United_States.htm )〕 9 overseas offices, and 32 international partnerships with Jewish communal institutions around the world. AJC's programs and departments include the Africa Institute, the Asia Pacific Institute, the Belfer Center for American Pluralism, the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Contemporary Jewish Life, Government and International Affairs, the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Affairs, Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, the Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute for American Jewish-Israeli Relations, the Latino and Latin American Institute, Project Interchange, the Lawrence and Lee Ramer institute for German-Jewish Relations, Russian Affairs, Thanks to Scandinavia, and the Transatlantic Institute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ajc.org/site/c.7oJILSPwFfJSG/b.8466991/k.64CB/Institutes__Affiliates.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Jewish Committee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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