American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists - AAJLJ

American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists - AAJLJ The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists advocating on behalf of America’s Jewish commu

The American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists (AAJLJ) is a national nonprofit association representing the American Jewish legal community. We bring our community together to defend Jewish interests and human rights in the United States and abroad.

What is the point of negotiating with Hamas for they have no control over the lives of the hostages? They have no intere...
09/01/2024

What is the point of negotiating with Hamas for they have no control over the lives of the hostages?
They have no interest in returning hostages alive. Where were you ? How could they have been shot in the head on your watch?

04/30/2024

I (Rhonda Lees) went to Israel in January 2024 to express solidarity, bear witness to Hamas' October atrocities and visit friends. It is heartbreaking that the more than 130 hostages are still in brutal and horrific captivity after being kidnapped by Hamas, that the American Red Cross has not even visited the hostages, that Iran (who may be behind Hamas directly or indirectly) struck Israel with missiles, and that college students and their leaders do not know the difference between protests and hate speech. Release the hostages safe and sound! Bring Hamas to account.

04/05/2024
03/09/2024

American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
U.S. Affiliate of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists

AAJLJ Statement on International Women’s Day 2024

It is International Women's Day. In a normal year, this important commemoration focuses on such pressing legal issues facing women and girls throughout the world as reproductive choice, domestic abuse, child marriage, sexual violence, female ge***al mutilation. They all remain top of mind, as they should. We always applaud progress and encourage leaders to remedy the gaps.

This year, however, we are compelled to demand that International Women's Day focus as well on the sexual violence and ge***al mutilation committed against Israeli women, even as too many purported women's advocates and "allies" have failed these women miserably.

We continue to believe all women, but even more so, we believe our Jewish sisters and Israeli women.

We mourn those who lost their dignity, their right to bodily safety, to Hamas terrorists and their supporters, and who continue to live, fearful and traumatized, while those who claim to "believe all women" violate them over and over again through their own moral failings. We mourn the undoing of years of what so many women saw as progress from the . Instead, Israeli women and their Jewish sisters are left with: .

We are outraged that the UN report on women took 5 months to be released. We are outraged at the deafening silence of purported women's advocates.

We demand that Hamas release the hostages safe and sound. We demand, and will continue to demand, apologies to the female Israeli victims of October 7th, who were disbelieved and treated as if "they had it coming."

This International Women's Day, we demand that the international community right its wrongs against Israeli women.

Robert Garson Richard Foltin
President Executive Director

Rhonda Lees Alyssa Grzesh
Regional Vice President, DC Director of Programming

March 8, 2024

02/28/2024

Claw back the money.

02/11/2024

Ozzy Osbourne has blasted Kanye West for using an unauthorized sample of a Black Sabbath song without permission.

Please join us! Thursday, February 8, 12:00 pm Eastern TimeBROWN JEWS AND JEWS WITH A HUEWith Abraham Hamra, Shareholder...
02/06/2024

Please join us! Thursday, February 8, 12:00 pm Eastern Time
BROWN JEWS AND JEWS WITH A HUE
With Abraham Hamra, Shareholder and CGO at Cohen Tucker and Ades, P.C. and Robert Garson Garson, AAJLJ President, Chair at GS2Law
Join the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists as Abraham Hamra, a Syrian Jewish refugee to the US and Robert Garson, whose heritage stems from Gibraltar have a candid discussion on Abraham’s experience as a Jewish refugee and being the descendants of refugees displaced from Arab countries.
Registration for Brown Jews and Jews With a Hue Webinar: https://lnkd.in/eTSY_m7w

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Join the AAJLJ as we share what was learned on recent solidarity trips to Israel.Friday, January 19, 1:00 pm ET.In-Perso...
01/16/2024

Join the AAJLJ as we share what was learned on recent solidarity trips to Israel.
Friday, January 19, 1:00 pm ET.
In-Person Perspectives: ISRAEL AT WAR

Rob Garson, President and Rhonda Lees, Vice President

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Exactly.  Thanks for your leadership.
12/22/2023

Exactly. Thanks for your leadership.

Hadassah leaders demand the International Committee of the Red Cross immediately visit all hostages abducted from Israel by Hamas and held in Gaza. There is no justification for leaving them to languish without the care and intervention afforded to all detainees around the world by the Red Cross.

From one humanitarian organization to another, we implore you to fulfill your stated mission. Visit the hostages; ensure that they are held in tolerable conditions; put an end to their physical, sexual and emotional abuse; transfer them much-needed medication and food; and put them in contact with their families.

Read the full press release from Hadassah here.
https://www.hadassah.org/press-release/hadassah-demands-red-cross-fulfill-its-humanitarian-mission-by-securing-wellbeing-of-hostages-kidnapped-from-israel-by-hamas

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As a voluntary bar association, we engage with legal issues that have an impact on the Jewish and broader world through the lens of Jewish values and tradition. The AAJLJ educates and advocates around critical issues such as: civil rights, human rights, access to justice, social justice, Israel and the Rule of Law, Holocaust issues, and Jewish Law. Through its members, the AAJLJ provides legal support to safeguard human rights. In addition, the AAJLJ works to combat those who attempt to use “lawfare” to stigmatize and delegitimize the State of Israel.

The AAJLJ presents an annual “Pursuit of Justice” award at a ceremony often held at the United States Supreme Court, to distinguished jurists and attorneys who exemplify the Biblical dictate, “Tzedek, tzedek tirdof,” “Justice, justice shall you pursue.” Past recipients include U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan (pictures above with Past AAJLJ President Alyza Lewin and DC Regional Vice President Rhonda Lees), Stephen Breyer, and Israeli Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak.