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.:: AJCongress ::. American Jewish Congress Home Page
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- for the Jews of Europe whose lives were disrupted by World War I, and to establish a mechanism for Democratic decision-making for the Jewish community here at home, more than 350,000 Jews from throughout the
- selected delegates to attend the first American Jewish “Congress.” Among those elected were such giants as Rabbi Stephen Wise, Judge Louis Brandeis, Judge Felix Frankfurter and Golda Meier Meyerson , then from
- . At that Congress, Wise set forth principles that were unique for the time and that continue to guide us today: that Jews are entitled not merely to charity but to justice and that there exist fundamental rights to which Jews and men and women of all faiths are entitled.
