In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist, 1979-1999Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee since 1990, shares 20 years of experience with the AJC, including working to help Soviet Jewry and his views on the Middle East, other parts of the world, the Holocaust, human rights, international terrorism, making a better America, and the future of American Jewry. His words on anti-Semitism, unsolved bombings in Argentina, and interfaith relations still resonate. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
SOVIET JEWRY | 23 |
Testimony Submitted to the United States Congress | 30 |
Crisis in Soviet Jewry | 37 |
Whats Next for Soviet Jewry? | 43 |
Nyet Again? | 56 |
A Righteous Gentile | 69 |
How Soviet Jews Relieve the Pain | 76 |
Peace Human Rights Cannot Be Separated | 83 |
We Must Not Give Aid to Holocaust Distorters | 353 |
Fifty Years After the Holocaust | 360 |
Unnecessary Language | 367 |
Presentation of the AJCs Distinguished Leadership Award | 374 |
Open the Files on Raoul Wallenberg | 382 |
The American Jewish Committee | 395 |
Never Let Complacency Guide Us Again | 402 |
LATIN AMERICA | 412 |
Did You Hear ? Washington Talk | 90 |
Serious Error | 99 |
Soviet Succession | 105 |
Testimony Before the Committee | 125 |
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST | 135 |
Once Upon a Time in Libya | 147 |
Israels Door Is Mostly Open | 157 |
What Can We | 163 |
AradJackson Meeting Important | 170 |
a Chance to Seize the Day | 191 |
Clintons Record on Israel | 207 |
Testimony | 210 |
On the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin | 216 |
Placing Blame for Terror | 222 |
Israel and the UN | 228 |
Not the Time to Go Easy on Saddam | 237 |
19481998 | 244 |
Presentation of AJCs Distinguished Public Service Award | 253 |
Enough Is Enough | 265 |
EUROPE | 272 |
Submitted to the Office of Andreas Papandreou | 280 |
Introduction of Mario Tagarinski | 348 |
President of Costa Rica and | 419 |
Ethiopia | 429 |
Finish the Job | 437 |
Dedication Ceremony American Jewish Committee School | 444 |
An Admitted Terrorist | 450 |
BlackJewish Alliance | 456 |
Americas Christian Crusader | 462 |
Groundbreaking Ceremony Gays Hill Baptist Church | 477 |
Close State Gaps | 483 |
AMERICAN JEWRY | 489 |
Jews in Dartmouth | 496 |
AJC Insiders Letter I | 508 |
The Good News and the Bad | 514 |
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | 524 |
Harris Updates | 533 |
Remarks AJC Board of Governors Institute | 539 |
So Whats in a Name Anyway? | 547 |
Tribute to Hyman Bookbinder | 553 |
Presentation to the AJC Budget Committee | 563 |
Eulogy for Richard Maass | 571 |
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