January 8, 2024, New York – In Shadow of Rising Antisemitism and Israel’s War with Hamas, Influential Advocacy Organization Charts a New Direction
The board of directors of the American Jewish Congress, a New York-based nonprofit organization founded more than 100 years ago by luminaries including Albert Einstein and Supreme Court Justices Felix Frankfurter and Louis Brandeis, has named real estate executive and U.S. Presidential appointee Daniel Rosen its new President. Rosen’s appointment comes at a crucial time for Jewish-Americans and the security of the State of Israel as antisemitism is reaching a fever pitch in American communities and college campuses.
Rosen, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, has held important leadership roles with the American Jewish Congress for more than a decade and until his appointment as President served as its Board Vice Chairman. He plans to be a force for continuity and change in the organization.
“This is as important a time for Jews worldwide as any in our history,” Rosen said. “College campuses have become hotbeds of antisemitism, genocidal extremist movements like Hamas are on the march, and disinformation about Jews and Israel is rampant, leading to dangerous tropes and even violence. We need the American Jewish Congress, more than ever, to be a voice of moral clarity in these troubled times.”
Rosen plans to roll-out a series of new initiatives aimed at engaging and informing Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, young and old, on critical issues such as hate speech, disinformation, and security. There will also be high-profile voter education efforts in the run-up to the 2024 election cycle.
“It is important for all Americans to know where the candidates stand on the key moral issues of the day. Do they tolerate antisemitism on college campuses? Do they think hate speech is protected speech? Do they think Hamas started the war with Israel? Do they believe Israel even has a right to exist? These are fundamental issues, and all voters deserve clear answers.”
In 2023, Rosen was appointed by President Joe Biden to The President’s Export Council, the White House’s principal trade advisory body. In 2014, President Barack Obama named Rosen to the Board of Trustees of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council for the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
