The American Jewish Committee is a Jewish advocacy organization in the [[United States]]. In 1933, [[Lewis L. Strauss]] was asked by the Committee to attend an international conference in [[London]] on the Jewish plight, where he met [[Chaim Weizmann]] and discussed the need to raise funds for the resettlement of Jews.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.