NEW YORK - Responding to the announcement that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Jewish Congress released ...

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder today expressed grave concern about the joint statement issued by 28 ...

In 1936, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise co-founded the World Jewish Congress (WJC), together with Nahum Goldmann and others. The World Jewish Congress, American Section, is the affiliate of the WJC in the ...

The World Jewish Congress on Monday co-signed a letter with over 400 Jewish Organizations sent to the National Education Association (NEA) raising concern over the NEA Representative Assembly's ...

World Jewish Congress American Section Chair J. Philip Rosen welcomed the Trump administration’s implementation of a federal funding freeze against Columbia University, underscoring that the move ...

In a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Ambassador Jürg Lauber, WJC Executive Vice President Maram Stern criticized the “Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory” for ...

Dr. Leon Saltiel, WJC’s Representative in Geneva and Director of Diplomacy, added: “ODIHR and the World Jewish Congress have a long-standing partnership rooted in a shared commitment to human rights ...

In a closely watched decision on Monday, the Foreign Ministers of the 27 European Union (EU) member states agreed to initiate consultations with Israel under Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association ...

NEW YORK — Reacting to the statement by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), which not only labeled the State of Israel as “apartheid” but advanced a broader one-sided ...

Condemning the arson attack on a synagogue and the vandalization of an Israeli-owned restaurant in eastern Australia, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder called upon the Australian government to “restore ...

In fact, most Jews have a special relationship to the only Jewish state in the world. It is our life insurance. If it becomes ...