World Jewish Congress
The world Jewish Congress English ( World Jewish Congress ) is an international federation of communities and organizations Jewish, founded in 1936 with Geneva (Suisse), and whose world seat is with New York (the United States).
The vocation of the world Jewish Congress is to represent and defend the interests of the Jews of the Diaspora but also of those which live in Israel.
He seeks the consensus between groups of political and religious scenes varied, with for constant supporting with force, since his creation in 1948, the State of Israel.
He is chaired, since 2007, by Ronald Lauder.
Previously by Edgar Mr. Bronfman since 1981.
The world Jewish Congress is divided into seven principal regional “branches”:
- American section (the United States),
- Canadian Jewish Congress (Canada)
- euro-Asian Jewish Congress,
- European Jewish Congress, currently chaired by Pierre Besnainou. Its vice-president Charlotte Knobloch became in June 2006 the first woman to chair the central Council of the Jews of Germany.
- connects Israeli,
- Latin-American Jewish Congrès,
- world Union of the Jewish students.
In addition to its world seat in New York, the Congress has additional seats with Paris (France), Buenos Aires (Argentine) and Geneva (Suisse), and has an research institute with Jerusalem (Israel).
List presidents
- 1936 - 1949: Stephen S. Wise,
- 1949 - 1977: Nahum Goldmann (by interim until 1955),
- 1977 - 1979: Philip Mr. Klutznick,
- since 1979: Edgar Bronfman (Edgar Bronfman Miles) (by interim until 1981).
- 2007 : Ronald Lauder
External bonds
- : Official site of the world Jewish Congress
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