---
category: Private Organization
location: New York City
start: 1906
summary: The American Jewish Committee is a major American Jewish advocacy organization
  founded in 1906 that appears in this vault through its connections to Israeli nuclear
  lobbying and U.S. government intelligence figures.
tags:
- Organization
- Jewish
- USA
---

The American Jewish Committee is a Jewish advocacy organization in the [United States](/places/united-states/). In 1933, [Lewis L. Strauss](/people/lewis-l-strauss/) was asked by the Committee to attend an international conference in [London](/places/london/) on the Jewish plight, where he met [Chaim Weizmann](/people/chaim-weizmann/) and discussed the need to raise funds for the resettlement of Jews.[^1]

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.