Editing American Jewish Committee (section)

==Organization==
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an international advocacy organization whose key area of focus is to promote religious and [[civil rights]] for [[Jews]] and others.<ref name=MJL /><ref name=NYT />

AJC has 25 regional offices in the [[United States]], 13 overseas offices, and 35 international partnerships with Jewish communal institutions around the world.<ref>"[http://www.ajc.org/site/c.7oJILSPwFfJSG/b.8466973/k.9B45/Where_We_Work.htm Where We Work] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209131239/http://www.ajc.org/site/c.7oJILSPwFfJSG/b.8466973/k.9B45/Where_We_Work.htm |date=2017-02-09 }}" (2016). American Jewish Committee. ajc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-24.</ref>

===Programs and institutes===
[[File:AJC_TAI.png|thumb|right|AJC Transatlantic Institute]]
* AJC's [[Jacob Blaustein]] Institute (JBI) for the Advancement of Human Rights, led by [[Felice Gaer]] from 1993 to 2024, is the only human rights division within a major Jewish organization. Under Gaer, the JBI expanded its focus to global universal rights, including women’s rights, torture victims, and the protection of political dissidents.<ref>{{cite news |title=Felice Gaer, Jewish organization official who championed human rights for all, dies at 78 |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/11/11/obituaries/felice-gaer-jewish-organization-official-who-championed-human-rights-for-all-dies-at-78 |access-date=1 December 2024 |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=2024-11-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Felice Gaer, 'legendary' human-rights activist, 78 |url=https://www.jns.org/felice-gaer-legendary-human-rights-activist-78/ |access-date=1 December 2024 |work=[[Jewish News Syndicate]] |date=2024-11-13}}</ref> JBI called for international action in response to the [[Darfur genocide]] and [[ethnic cleansing]] during the [[Sudanese civil war (2023–present)|Sudanese civil war]].<ref>{{cite news |title=JBI calls for action to protect non-Arab communities in Darfur against genocide |url=https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/jbi-calls-for-action-to-protect-non-arab-communities-in-darfur-against-genocide |access-date=1 December 2024 |work=[[Radio Dabanga]] |date=2023-08-29}}</ref>
* The AJC Transatlantic Institute, based in Brussels, was opened in February 2004 to promote ties between the [[transatlantic relationship]] between the United States and Europe.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=David |title=Rebuilding Trans-Atlantic Ties |url=https://forward.com/opinion/6309/rebuilding-trans-atlantic-ties/ |access-date=18 December 2024 |work=[[The Forward]] |date=2004-02-13}}</ref>

* Alexander Young Leadership Department
** ACCESS, AJC's young professional program
* [[Arthur Belfer|Arthur and Rochelle Belfer]] Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs
* Asia Pacific Institute
* Combating Antisemitism in [[Washington, D.C.]]
* Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding in [[Jerusalem]]
* Information Center and Digital Archives
* Interreligious and Intergroup Relations
* [[Jacob Blaustein]] Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights in [[New York City|New York]]
* Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (JREC) in [[Jerusalem]]
* Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations in [[Berlin]]
* [[Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council]]
* [[Project Interchange]]
* Policy and Political Affairs in Washington, D.C.
* Shapiro Silverberg AJC Central Europe in [[Warsaw]]
* Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding in [[Abu Dhabi]]
* William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life